Senior Legal Counsel Corporate

Join Cosun as Senior Legal Counsel Corporate and strengthen the legal capabilities of the organization as a center of excellence, a legal operations function, and a trusted business partner to the Executive Board and corporate functions. In this role, you combine legal expertise with a strong focus on governance, standardization and strategic support across the organization. This position offers the opportunity to operate on a strategic level while actively building and further professionalizing the legal function as part of the Legal team.

Wat ga je doen?

What will you do

As a key member of the Legal team, you will help build and strengthen the legal function in support of Cosun’s strategy. Your role combines legal expertise, operational excellence, and senior stakeholder partnering, and will involve:

• Act as a legal business partner to the Executive Board and corporate functions by providing advice on corporate, governance, compliance, and strategic matters relevant to the Cosun group.
• Help shape the legal function as a center of excellence by developing standards, templates and consistent ways of working, while proactively translating legal and regulatory changes into practical guidance and acting as group-level expert on overarching legal areas.
• Drive legal operations by improving processes, contract management, outside counsel management, knowledge sharing, and the overall efficiency and quality of legal support.
• Support key compliance processes and legal risk management.
• Work closely with the two legal business partners, Senior Counsel M&A, HQ stakeholders, and external counsel to ensure consistent, pragmatic, and high-quality legal support across Cosun.

The team and your role

You will join Cosun’s Legal team alongside two legal business partners supporting the business groups and Innovation, as well as a dedicated Senior M&A Counsel within Corporate Development focused on transactions, partnerships, and strategic growth initiatives. Reporting to the Director Corporate Development, this is a senior group-level role with broad exposure across the organization and a clear mandate to further strengthen Cosun’s legal function. The scope spans compliance and regulatory, commercial contracting, governance and legal frameworks, capability building, and legal systems and knowledge management. In this capacity, you will help shape group-wide legal strategy, define and embed compliance policies and standards, advise on corporate and business governance, oversee high-risk legal matters, and lead complex legal projects of strategic importance.

Waar ga je werken?

About Cosun

Royal Cosun is an international agricultural cooperative focused on creating sustainable solutions in food, ingredients, animal feed and green energy.

With more than 4,500 employees across Europe, Asia and North America, Cosun offers an international environment where innovation, sustainability and long-term value creation go hand in hand.

Within this context, the Cosun Legal team plays an important role in enabling sound decision-making, strengthening governance and compliance, and supporting the business with pragmatic, high-quality legal advice.

Where will you work

You will be part of Royal Cosun, a forward-thinking cooperative active through business groups including Cosun Beet Company, Aviko, Duynie, Sensus, and Cosun Protein.

Wat neem je mee?

What will you bring

• At least 10–12 years’ experience as a lawyer in a leading law firm and/or in-house legal role, with broad exposure to corporate, governance, and strategic legal topics.
• Strong analytical skills and sound judgment, with the ability to balance legal risk, governance requirements, and business objectives.
• Experience or strong affinity with legal operations, standardization, process improvement, and building scalable ways of working.
• A proactive and credible stakeholder partner, able to work effectively with board members, senior leaders, and cross-functional teams in a complex HQ environment.
• Structured, hands-on, and pragmatic, with the ability to translate complexity into clear guidance and effective execution.
• A collaborative mindset and the confidence to operate independently in a dynamic HQ environment.
• Good command of Dutch and English, both spoken and written.

Wat krijg je ervoor terug?

• An annual bonus based on results.
• Comprehensive benefits: enjoy a lease car, excellent pension scheme, generous holidays, and more.