Overview

In this role you will provide commercially oriented legal support to Kerry’s Europe sales and strategic partnerships, managing an assigned portfolio of customer-facing and IP-related agreements. You will partner with the Europe General Counsel and cross-functional teams to enable growth while safeguarding Kerry’s commercial and reputational interests. You will handle complex contracts, contribute to process improvement, and help scale legal support across Europe. This is an opportunity to shape Europe-wide contracting and collaborate on innovative products and routes to market.

Responsabilidades

- Draft/review and negotiate a broad range of European customer-facing and strategic commercial agreements (sales, distribution, partnerships, services, confidentiality)
- Own an assigned contract portfolio from initial engagement through negotiation, approval, execution and implementation
- Provide practical, risk-based guidance on terms including warranties, indemnities, termination, change control and pricing considerations
- Support commercial teams on pricing mechanisms, forecasts and volumes to enable timely decision-making
- Identify legal solutions to support sales growth while protecting Kerry’s commercial and reputational interests
- Draft, review and negotiate IP-related agreements (licences, R&D;, collaboration, MTAs, confidentiality, know-how protection)
- Coordinate with IP, R&D;,



innovation and marketing to address ownership and use rights; involve IP Legal when needed
- Develop practical contracting models for new products and partnerships
- Collaborate with General Counsel (Europe) on strategic matters and governance initiatives
- Contribute to templates, playbooks, CLM tools and training; support data-driven legal service delivery and responsible use of AI

Requisitos principales

- Qualified lawyer in a European jurisdiction with 3-5 years PQE
- Fluent written and spoken English; second European language desirable
- Experience in commercial contracting, in-house and/or large international law firm
- Demonstrable experience in customer-facing sales contracts and complex negotiations
- Experience negotiating IP/licensing/technology/R&D;/development or collaboration agreements
- Experience supporting contracts in multinational or cross-border contexts
- In-house experience in a multinational organization, preferably in food, ingredients, biotechnology, manufacturing or FMCG

- Strong drafting, negotiation and risk assessment
- Commercially pragmatic with ability to balance growth, speed, value and legal risk
- Organisational and workload management; timely delivery
- Contract drafting and negotiation
- IP ownership and licensing knowledge
- Cross-border contracting

📌 Commercial Counsel Europe (Barcelona)
🏢 Kerry Group
📍 Barcelona