Senior Legal Advisor EMEA

HOW WILL YOU CONTRIBUTE?

At Carmeuse, you're part of a family that's over 4,500 people strong. What we do all starts with limestone, it's that simple. But the products and services you will help create with it are simply fascinating. You're improving the everyday lives of those around you. You're helping to build solutions that make our water and air cleaner. You're helping the agriculture industry to grow and sustain the food we need. You're helping to make the steel for our cars, computers and homes. You're even helping to make buildings stronger and eco-friendlier and roads safer … all around the world. For industries. For communities. For life.

You will join a legal team, composed of 4 persons and based in Louvain-La-Neuve, in a role as Senior Advisor to Carmeuse's EMEA operations. You will report to the Group Head of Legal.

The Carmeuse EMEA legal advisor's role is to legally safeguard and maximize its various business interests and to help ensure it complies with applicable laws, regulations and standards of the Carmeuse Group. These are your main responsibilities:

• Support various departments (with a particular focus on business development – incl. projects, sales, procurement and capex) at the level of Carmeuse EMEA in relation to their respective contractual requirements.
• Proactively address with the business teams legislative initiatives which may impact Carmeuse EMEA's operations.
• Make sure that Carmeuse corporate legal standards are followed by operations in EMEA while respecting local obligations.
• Provide legal advice and guidance to the business teams across EMEA region on commercial and operational issues that may generally arise in an industrial environment.
• Coordinate corporate housekeeping matters throughout Carmeuse EMEA.
• Coordination and follow-up of major litigations across Carmeuse EMEA.
• Supervise local legal advisors.
• Liaise and coordinate with external relationships as desired. Be the appropriate and natural interface between the business teams and these relationships.
• Participation in digitalization initiatives.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS (Education, experiences, softskills)

• Legal degree (commercial law, civil law).

• Minimum 5-7 years' experience in similar position within an industrial and international environment or practice in civil/commercial law with a law firm.

• Excellent verbal and written communication in French and English.

• Rigorous.

• Persistent and perseverant.

• Customer focus (internal).

• Solution/business oriented.
• Good analytical skills coupled with good judgment skills.
• Able to work in cross functional and multi-cultural team.
• Responsible.
• Excellent communication skills – persuasive.

WHY CARMEUSE? 

We truly believe that where you work matters and, as a family business, we know what makes our employees happy 

• Flexible working hours 
• Home working policy 
• Competitive salary package and benefits 
• A lot of growing possibilities 
• A strong HR and training policy to develop your skills
• Work life balance