Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
As part of our Global Legal team, you will look behind the scenes to experience the work of an in-house lawyer and gain a unique insight into the day-to-day business of an international corporate legal department. Together with a team of experts, you will support our business leaders as a close partner in challenging legal matters and provide pragmatic legal advice.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support of the department in all legal matters of daily business operations including cross functional and exceptional tasks
- Support of strategic projects, providing clear as well as business-minded legal advice to business-, function-, and project stakeholders
- Research activities in national and international context
- Active support and close cooperation with other Global Legal team members
Key Relationships:
- Local and global business leaders
- Local authorities
- Local Works Councils (adidas AG)
- Global Legal
- Local and global HR Partners
- Respective business areas as defined
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Highly results driven and self-motivated team player with compassion, integrity, reliability and perseverance
- Able to accept and meet deadlines, involving effective time management capacity and sense of priorities and agility
- Team player with strong interpersonal skills and can-do mentality
- Strong interpersonal skills combined with a high degree of customer orientation
- Curious and growth mindset; keen to learn and approach subjects outside of comfort zone, look beyond the obvious
- Effective English & German presentation and communication skills
- Good MS Office skills
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- First state examination in law (ideally "fully satisfactory")
- Ideally, relevant professional experience, preferably in an international company or in an international law firm
- first legal clerk traineeship completed (ideally applying for second legal clerk traineeship/"Wahlstation")