Legal Manager Operations & Innovation

As Legal Manager Operations & Innovation, you’ll be at the heart of the Ahold Delhaize legal community. With your creativity and vision, you will support, drive and enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the legal function. You will be supporting strategic initiatives and improving processes, tools, and ways of working.

About Ahold Delhaize

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 17 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 Legal Manager Operations & Innovation, you will join the Ahold Delhaize legal community. Key areas of work in this community are covered by dedicated teams, each with their own expertise. For the European part, this concerns the legal teams for Technology, Data Privacy, Commerce, as well as Projects & M&A and Legal Operations - which is where you will be based.

You’ll work closely with and support all these teams. You’ll also cooperate with other teams and departments across Ahold Delhaize, both locally and globally. Your role includes working with the Corporate Affairs legal team, Public Affairs and Compliance & Ethics when needed.

Joining the team means you’ll work with a group of energetic, open-minded and highly skilled colleagues. You will help to drive the development and implementation of the legal department’s strategic roadmap.

Key responsibilities of your role

Your key responsibilities include:

• You will help to (further) define and implement the Legal Operations strategy and long-term roadmap, ensuring continuous progress on strategic priorities.
• You will oversee the legal department’s budgets and external legal spend, while also strengthening partnerships with external legal service providers.
• You will drive knowledge sharing and improve information governance
• Leveraging technology is central to this role.
• You will also support broader organizational initiatives, with a focus on team development and operational excellence.

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; hybrid working – we encourage you to spend at least 3 days a week, on average, at the office (based on a 40-hour work week); 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.

Plus:

• Attractive bonuses
• A first-rate pension plan
• 20 vacation days and the option to buy an additional 12.5 days from your personal ‘flex budget’
• Travel expenses or an NS travel card
• A laptop and smartphone

Requirements

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

• At least 5 years of experience in legal practice
• Master of Law preferred (LLM in Legal Management is a plus)
• Based in the Netherlands

Soft skills we value:

• Strong organizational and project management abilities
• Proactive mindset and solution-oriented approach
• Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management
• A keen eye for process optimization and innovation
• Connector with hands-on attitude

At Ahold Delhaize 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.