The Role Our client is a integral manufacturing business.
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Acting as a trusted legal partner to the business across commercial, corporate, compliance and employment matters, in a fast-paced, high-volume international in-house environment.
The role suits a lawyer who thrives on ownership, values follow-through, and enjoys operating with autonomy inside a structured, disciplined team.
This is a genuinely hands-on position, combining substantive legal advisory work with structured contract review, matter administration and follow-through documentation.
Discipline, attention to detail and comfort with meaningful transactional volume matter as much as substantive legal knowledge – the ability to close matters properly and on time is what defines success here.
Key Responsibilities
* Drafting, reviewing and negotiating a broad range of commercial contracts – distribution, service, NDAs, licensing and procurement – with business stakeholders across multiple jurisdictions.
* Advising on corporate governance and entity management for international subsidiaries, including board resolutions, powers of attorney and corporate records.
* Supporting employment and labour law matters across the international footprint, in coordination with HR and local counsel.
* Advising on data protection matters (GDPR and other applicable privacy regimes) and supporting enforcement of the group’s data protection policies.
* Supporting the anti-corruption, sanctions and trade compliance programme (FCPA, UK Bribery Act, EU/OFAC sanctions) within a US-listed public company framework.
* Supporting internal investigations and compliance escalations, in coordination with the Chief Legal and Compliance Officer.
* Managing the intellectual property portfolio in coordination with external agents, ensuring timely filings and renewals.




* Instructing and coordinating external counsel across jurisdictions, keeping matters on track and within budget.
* Identifying, assessing and mitigating legal risk proactively.
Must-Haves
* Law degree from an accredited institution.
* 4 to 6 years of post-qualification experience gained in a law firm and/or in-house at a multinational corporation.
* Proven experience in international commercial contracts and corporate matters.
* English to full working proficiency, written and spoken – all internal work product, headquarters communication and cross-border matters are handled in English.
* Fluent Spanish, for a Spain-based team.
* Ownership and accountability: takes matters from inception to resolution, manages workload proactively and honours commitments.
* Rigorous and detail-oriented, performing reliably under pressure with consistent execution and closure.
* Autonomous yet collaborative, with a strong sense of when to escalate and a habit of arriving at alignment meetings with a clear assessment and a proposed path forward.
Nice-to-Haves
* Exposure to compliance, data privacy or employment law.
* Experience within a US-listed public company governance and compliance framework.
* Prior work supporting EMEA, LATAM and APAC jurisdictions.
* Experience managing an international IP portfolio through external agents.
* Additional European languages.
What’s in it for you?
* A genuinely international remit – EMEA, LATAM and APAC, from a Spanish base, with the choice of Madrid or Barcelona.
* Direct reporting line to the Deputy General Counsel – International, with visibility to the Chief Legal and Compliance Officer.
* The breadth of a lean in-house team: commercial, corporate, employment, data privacy, compliance and IP, rather than a single narrow specialism.
* A platform to consolidate an in-house career within a US-listed multinational, supported by established systems and processes. xqbhyrx
* Real autonomy and ownership, within a structured and disciplined legal function.

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