Job title:  Legal Counsel

ANDRITZ is a globally leading supplier of plants, equipment, and services for hydropower stations, the pulp and paper industry, the metalworking and steel industries, and for solid/liquid separation in the municipal and industrial sectors as well as for animal feed and biomass pelleting. Other important business segments include automation and service business. The publicly listed technology Group is headquartered in Graz, Austria, and has a staff of approximately 30.000 employees. ANDRITZ operates more than 280  locations in over 40 countries.  

ANDRITZ in Italy has 13 subsidiaries, which are acting in all areas of the ANDRITZ business. With approximately 1050 employees in Italy

The Italian legal team, being part of the Group Legal Department is responsible for the support of the Italian legal entities of the ANDRITZ Group. The legal counsel Italy will be in direct contact with sales and management of various companies predominantly in Italy and serve their global businesses daily legal needs, foremost in the sales process and claims management. A great majority of work is conducted in English language or other foreign languages and is subject to foreign jurisdictions. There will be regular exchanges with the international legal team of Andritz.

Location: We are flexible as to the place of work and can in principle envisage to hire a legal counsel at any place of our our Italian subsidiaries. Preference would be give to Schio (VI) and Lucca.

Scope of work:

Our business is very international. You will concentrate on all aspects of domestic and international supply-related contracts. You will work in a local core team of contract lawyers who serve as cross function for the Andritz business divisions in Italy with international markets, with direct report to Regional Compliance Officer & Senior Corporate Counsel for Italy. You will be negotiating complex project transactions, managing significant commercial disputes and litigation and will be supporting business people with robust risk assessments. The role will require international travel. The work will require a good understanding of business requirements and risks. Legal counsels at ANDRITZ typically act as a team member in our infrastructure and sales projects and will contribute to the risk assessment processes from a legal perspective. Our lawyers need to have a hands-on approach, be flexible in their work attitude and in their approach to finding solutions within legal requirements in order to enabling business success while protecting the company.

Profile:

You are a qualified lawyer graduated from an Italian law school with strong academics and a profound commercial background. You have 5 to 10 years of post-graduate experience gained in a reputable law firm or an international corporation. Experience in infrastructure projects (private and public tenders) would be a great advantage. 

You are familiar with complex project structures, public tenders, contract splitting, securities, consortia and sub-contracts. Moreover, you are a very good generalist, capable of working in various jurisdictions, deal with internationally applied standard forms of contract and other legal issues as they arise.

You have excellent drafting and negotiation skills and are a good team player. Excellent English (written and spoken) is essential. Professional usage of Spanish, Portuguese or French or any other foreign language on working level would be most welcome. Moreover, experience with contract management concepts and details are beneficial.

Gross annual salary range from 55000 to 70.000 €  

This is an exceptional opportunity to work in a dynamic organization in an international project environment. You will have the opportunity to autonomously help develop business divisions in multi-sectorial teams of professionals. It will suit an individual who seeks to thrive in an international high-energy company. 

We're looking forward to your application!