As a Legal Counsel, you will:
- Provide all legal support required by the business primarily in EMEA.
- Being a trusted and key legal advisor to internal stakeholders of the region.
- Deliver prompt legal review and support to sales-related agreements, tender documents, corporate secretarial documents, procurement-related contracts and any other legal assistance which is required.
- Will be reviewing, negotiating and drafting transactional agreements with Fortinet’s partners and customers.
- Provide legal advice to the business including supporting matters related to human resources, corporate matters, compliance, procurement and inbound licensing, giving training etc.
An insightful and influential collaborator to join our team. We encourage you to apply for this position if you have the following qualities:
- Qualified lawyer in an EU jurisdiction
- Minimum 3 years post qualification experience (PQE), having worked in a legal department or law firm.
- Perfect written and spoken English, including legal drafting and negotiation in English
- Drafting experience obtained in a law firm or in-house legal department.
- Ability to work and make decisions without supervision.
- Solution driven.
- Good communicator and ability to work with people with different cultural backgrounds.
- Positive can-do attitude: can handle complex work and yet no job is too small.
- Good team player
- Professional
- High integrity
- Some complex transactional experience as well as experience with compliance programs
- Flexible on working hours as attendance of early morning or late night telephone conferences may be required
- Quick grasp and willing to learn
Desirable
- Experience in a technology driven environment
- Understanding of channel driven sales models
- Experience in the security industry
- Experience and training in contract negotiation
- Another language apart from English
- Good presenter
- Understanding of tender and procurement processes
- Work experience in more than one jurisdictions / country
- In-house transactional experience