Wolters Kluwer – Senior Attorney – Mechelen/Remote

Onze klant

Wolters Kluwer N.V. (AEX: WKL) is a global leader in information services and solutions for professionals in the health, tax and accounting, risk and compliance, finance and legal sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services. The company, headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries and employs 19,000 people worldwide. For 15 years, Wolters Kluwer have been shaping the transformation of their business globally from print to digital and today they are well on their way to becoming a company that stands for expert solutions.

In Belgium, they are a leading provider of expert legal, business and tax information, software and services, helping their customers do the right thing when it really matters.

Taken

– Managing of customer and vendor contracts including the support of the business teams in negotiating contracts and participating in public tenders.
– Corporate housekeeping.
– Creating and continuing the improvement of standard form agreements, playbooks, policies and legal processes.
– Partnering with management and sales, marketing, product and finance teams and advising on day-to day-legal issues, legal risks and best practices, intellectual property matters and compliance activities, collaborating with the Privacy Officer on privacy issues.
– Managing disputes, litigation and outside counsel relationships.
– Performing other assignments and projects as required.

Profiel

– You are a fully qualified lawyer with completed academic legal education.
– You have at least five years of professional experience in an internationally operating company with complex structures, ideally in a large corporation.
– You ideally have basic knowledge of contract, corporate, IP (Copyright) and IT laws as well as experience in the relevant use cases in a commercial enterprise.
– You have an affinity for IT and digital as well as a good understanding of technical and economic contexts.
– You act independently and proactively (“hands on”), can prioritize topics / requests and subsequently implement them in a structured and solution-oriented manner.
– With your strong communication skills and friendly persuasiveness, you are able to communicate confidently at eye level even with demanding stakeholders.
– A very good command of Dutch, French and English rounds off your profile.

Aanbod

– A responsible position with creative freedom and a diverse range of topics.
– Attractive salary package with fringe benefits such as company car, company pension scheme, flexible working hours, partly working from home, learning opportunities and much more.
– A highly committed, professional cross border team, short decision-making processes and flat hierarchies.
– The opportunity to actively shape the digital transformation of our company.
– An open and informal corporate culture with freedom and flexibility in daily activities.
– The connection to a successful and internationally operating group of companies.