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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 is based in Berlin or Düsseldorf and is permanent.

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 review
• Contract negotiation
• Legal advice
• Compliance
• Antitrust law
• Competition law
• Procurement law
• VOB/B
• Export/Import law
• Data protection
• Anti-corruption
• Product liability
• Health & Safety
• Communication skills
• Negotiation skills
• Problem-solving

Location

• Berlin
• Düsseldorf

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience

Education Level

• Completed 1st and 2nd state examinations

Salary/Compensations

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

Benefits

• 30 days of vacation per year
• 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.
• It is one of the most sustainable companies in the world.
• The company has a global revenue of €40 billion, +9% organic growth, and over 150,000 employees in 100+ countries.
• Schneider Electric's values are Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, and Teamwork (IMPACT values).
• The company is committed to sustainability and creating a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.
• Schneider Electric upholds the highest standards of ethics and compliance, guided by its Trust Charter.

Equal Opportunity

• Schneider Electric strives to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world by offering equal opportunities to all people everywhere and ensuring that all employees feel valued and safe in a unique way to do their best.
• Schneider Electric is an equal opportunity employer and provides 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 behaviors in all areas of recruitment, hiring, training, transfer, and promotion.