Internship in Legal

About this position

Please apply only if you are currently living in the Netherlands and you are still a student or you have graduated maximum 3 months prior to the internship start date.

At Henkel, you can build on a strong legacy and leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses to reimagine and improve life every day. If you love challenging the status quo, join our community of over 50,000 pioneers around the globe. Our teams at Henkel Consumer Brands continuously drive the evolution in dynamic categories: Laundry & Home Care and Hair. With our trusted brands, including Persil and Schwarzkopf, our cutting-edge technologies and our disruptive solutions, you will have countless opportunities to explore new paths and develop your skills. Grow within our future-led businesses, our diverse and vibrant culture and find a place where you simply belong. All to leave your mark for more sustainable growth.

What you'll do

• Contractual Support: Assist in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating legal documents, including supply agreements, confidentiality agreements, and intellectual property agreements
• Operational Legal Support: Provide day-to-day legal support, including general administrative assistance to the legal team.
• Legal Tech & Innovation: Contribute to the implementation of legal tech solutions, including AI tools, within the Henkel legal team.
• Corporate Governance: Support the company secretary in corporate projects and corporate housekeeping tasks.
• Data Protection Compliance: Assist the data protection delegate in ensuring compliance with data protection regulations.
• Legal Research: Conduct legal research and contribute to internal knowledge management initiatives, including maintaining templates, FAQs, and legal updates.
• Training & Awareness: Support the preparation of internal legal training materials or awareness campaigns (e.g., on data protection, contract basics).

What makes you a good fit

• Education: Bachelor of Law as minimum with a focus on contract law, corporate law and international business law.
• Experience: Entry level; previous internships, law firm experience and/or paralegal experience are a plus
• Skills: Pragmatic, detail-orientated and eager to learn.
• You demonstrate responsiveness, organization, and analytical thinking. You have strong interpersonal skills that support team integration and collaboration.
• You are able to manage competing deadlines and multiple stakeholders, and work independently.
• Legal Competence: Ability to conduct legal research and draft clear, concise legal documents.
• Understanding of confidentiality and professional ethics is essential.
• Language: You have a perfect knowledge of English. Knowledge of Dutch is an additional asset.
• Technical Skills: Very good mastery of MS Office Tools required.
• Eligibility: Eligible to work in the Netherlands for a minimum of 6 months as of March 1 2026 and a commitment to complete the full-time internship the entirety of the six-month period.

Our offer

• Opportunity to work in a multi-cultural dynamic environment
• An exciting and educational full-time internship in an international FMCG business
• You’ll be part of an international intern community
• Community fun and educational events organized for the international (BeNeFrance) intern community, with opportunities to broaden your network
• 6 months internship (possibility to extend for 2 more months, max. 8 months in total)
• An internship allowance of 1000 EUR gross/ month and a 250 EUR net/month travel allowance