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About the Role

Schneider Electric offers digital energy and automation solutions to customers worldwide, focusing on optimal use of energy and resources. This role involves advising sales teams, management, and departments on legal matters, with a focus on contract drafting with customers, suppliers, and partners (B2B). The position also includes creating, reviewing, and negotiating complex purchase, service, and work contracts, particularly for projects in construction, infrastructure, and public procurement.

Responsibilities

Advise sales teams, management, and departments on all relevant legal issues, with a focus on contract drafting with customers, suppliers, and partners (B2B).
Create, review, and negotiate complex purchase, service, and work contracts, including projects in construction, infrastructure, and public procurement.
Act as a productive link between legal advice, corporate guidelines, and operational business, developing sustainable, economically viable solutions.
Ensure compliance with competition, antitrust, export/import, data protection, and other compliance regulations, and provide proactive advice.
Evaluate complex economic and technical issues, identify risks, and develop pragmatic recommendations in collaboration with Sales and Finance.
Represent Schneider Electric in all legal matters internally and externally as a member of the Global Legal Department, and independently conduct negotiations with external parties.
Accompany and coordinate court, arbitration, and litigation proceedings in close coordination with external law firms and internal departments.

Requirements

Fully qualified lawyer (w/m/d) with completed 1st and 2nd state examinations.
Excellent knowledge of contract and sales law (B2B) and very good knowledge of procurement law, VOB/B, antitrust, and competition law.
Know-how in anti-corruption, product liability, and Health & Safety topics is a plus.
Several years of professional experience (min. 5 years) in relevant legal fields – ideally in an internationally active company or a comparable organization.
Good understanding of industrial business models, technical products, and their legal frameworks.
Strong communication and negotiation skills, combined with a confident demeanor and a high degree of solution orientation.
Very good understanding of economic contexts and a strong sense of entrepreneurial and ethical conduct.
Very good German language skills and fluent English.
Team-oriented, optimistic personality with drive, responsibility, and willingness to travel occasionally.

Skills

Contract drafting
Contract negotiation
Legal advisory
Compliance
Risk assessment
Litigation coordination
Antitrust law
Competition law
Procurement law
VOB/B
Export/Import law
Data protection
Anti-corruption
Product liability
Health & Safety

Location

Berlin
Düsseldorf

Work Type

Hybrid
Full-time

Experience Level

Minimum 5 years of professional experience

Education Level

1st and 2nd state examinations

Salary/Compensations

Performance-related pay (fixed annual salary and variable component)

Benefits

30 days/year vacation
Share program with employer subsidy and favorable conditions
Various development and career opportunities
Employer-funded pension model with various financing components
Employee discounts via Corporate Benefits with external partners

About the Company

Schneider Electric offers digital energy and automation solutions to customers worldwide.
We are one of the most sustainable companies in the world.
Company revenue: €40 billion worldwide.
Company growth: +9% organic growth.
Company employees: 150,000+ in 100+ countries.
Our values are Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork.
We are committed to sustainability and creating a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.
We strive to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world.
We uphold the highest standards of ethics and compliance.
Our Trust Charter is our code of conduct, demonstrating our commitment to ethics, safety, sustainability, quality, and cybersecurity.

Equal Opportunity

Schneider Electric is an employer that promotes equal opportunities.
We offer equal employment and advancement opportunities to all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or other legally protected characteristics or conduct in all areas of recruitment, hiring, training, transfer, and promotion.