Manager Legal Counsel - Legal Practice Team Corporate Affairs

As Manager Legal Counsel - Legal Practice Team Corporate Affairs you are responsible for and assisting to oversee and manage corporate legal matters for the Ahold Delhaize organisation, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations, mitigating legal risks and supporting the business with sound legal advice.

About Ahold Delhaize
We’re Ahold Delhaize, one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together with our 16 strong local retail brands in the United States, Europe and Indonesia, we make a meaningful difference in the lives of our brands’ customers, our people and the world around us. We offer a highly dynamic, international work environment in which our associates thrive.

Your new work environment
As Manager Legal Counsel - Legal Practice Team Corporate Affairs you are part of the Company Secretariat & Legal Practice Team Corporate Affairs. This is a team that is involved in providing company secretarial and corporate legal support to the Ahold Delhaize organisation.

The main areas of work in the Company Secretariat & Legal Practice Team Corporate Affairs are covered by dedicated colleagues, each with their own expertise: Company Secretariat, Corporate Legal Affairs (which includes general corporate law, corporate governance and corporate finance matters); and Intellectual Property. Cooperating closely with other legal teams and other disciplines within Ahold Delhaize, both locally and globally, this team is involved in virtually every aspect of the business that has a corporate legal component (except for M&A transactions). Joining this team means you’ll work with a tight-knit group of highly qualified, ambitious, energetic and open-minded colleagues.

You will be given the freedom and responsibility to take ownership of your work and broaden your horizons by working together with knowledgeable colleagues from different countries who have an abundance of expertise in many areas. We will continuously support you and help you build on your talents and skills for the future.

Key responsibilities of your role
You will advise on and be involved in a broad range of corporate legal matters, such as general corporate contracting and structuring, entity management, drafting and execution of (internal) policies and providing advice in other corporate related legal areas as may be required from time to time. This will be both on national and international level. Managing / instructing of external counsel and service providers is part of your role. Inter alia, you are willing and able to support your colleagues in the team, including the Company Secretariat and the Legal Managers who focus on Corporate Finance, and Corporate Governance.

You will be acting as legal manager, helping to enhance interconnectivity and alignment between the different teams in the organisation.

Your role is highly diverse and encompasses various responsibilities. Here are the key ones:

• Corporate Legal Matters
  You will provide legal advice on corporate legal matters and will assist on general corporate contracting and (internal) policies matters. You will also manage projects in these legal areas, be responsible for corporate housekeeping, provide corporate secretarial duties to Ahold Delhaize entities, advise on insurance law and pension law related matters and any other corporate related legal areas as may be required from time to time.
• Corporate Entity Life Cycle Management
  Supported by an external service provider, you will manage and provide legal advice on corporate entity life cycle management (which includes approximately 70 entities within the Ahold Delhaize Group) and are as such responsible for, amongst other: incorporations / liquidations, director changes, dividends, 403 declaration & financial accounts, corporate restructurings, filings in our internal entity management system, LEI administration, etc.
• Ad hoc legal advice
  Part of the role is to provide advice on an ad hoc basis on a range of legal related topics, as they may arise in the organization from time to time. You will provide clear, accurate and actionable advice on the topic at hand, using a crisp and actionable communication style.

What’s in it for you?
Aside from what we ask of you in this role, we also have a great deal to offer you: plenty of growth opportunities and various cross-brand career options; flexible working hours; a hybrid working model (we ask you to spend at least 50% of your working time at the office); and the chance to drive meaningful change on a global scale. You can look forward to a good work-life balance, and the chance to work in an inclusive environment that wholeheartedly encourages growth and welcomes you just the way you are.

Requirements
We think you’ll be best geared for success if you meet the following requirements:

• At least 4+ years of experience in a similar role / corporate practice at a law firm or as in-house counsel. Experience within a Dutch corporate practice is a significant plus;
• Master of Law;
• Excellent in ENG and NL, other languages are a plus;
• Ability to work independently;
• Strong coordination skills; and
• Ability to take the lead in order to get things done and communicated throughout the business.

Aside from these hard skills, we think you should also bring some much-valued soft skills to the table: a connector with a hands-on attitude and outspoken communication skills will take you far. In addition to these, strong connective skills, able to combine expertise with strong pragmatism and risk management reflexes are very much appreciated within our company.

At Ahold Delhaize and our local brands, we broadly define diversity as being inclusive of thoughts and skills, generational differences, LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disabilities, nationalities and more, and we accept all people for who they are.