Group Legal Counsel - Switzerland & Italy
About This Opportunity
Group Function Legal Affairs EMEA Customer Unit South Europe & Eurasia is seeking a Legal Counsel to join our dynamic team. This is an exciting opportunity to provide professional legal expertise across Switzerland and Italy, supporting our organization's strategic objectives in contract drafting and negotiations, regulatory compliance, intellectual property rights, and dispute resolution. You will work in a collaborative environment where your legal acumen directly impacts business success across Italy and Switzerland.
What You Will Do
As our Legal Counsel, your responsibilities will include:• Draft, review, and negotiate agreements and legal documents• Provide legal advice on regulatory and intellectual property• Lead and drive defined areas of legal expertise and specialized projects • Ensure ongoing compliance with laws, regulations, and internal policies and directives• Design and deliver legal training programs • Manage and drive dispute resolution effectively
Key Qualifications• Education: Master of Law• Minimum Experience: 4 years• Languages: English (C1 level); German (B1 level)• Business Acumen: Strong business interest, knowledge, and understanding• Excellent presentation, communication, drafting, and negotiation skills• Proven experience in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating agreements• Knowledge of intellectual property rights (IPR) commercialization and protection• Knowledge of data protection legislation• Strong commercial acumen and business judgment• Ability to work effectively under pressure
The position will be based in Milan or Rome, Italy.
Why join Ericsson?At Ericsson, you'll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what's possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world's toughest problems. You'll be challenged, but you won't be alone. You'll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.
What happens once you apply? Click Here to find all you need to know about what our typical hiring process looks like.Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization is core to our values at Ericsson, that's why we champion it in everything we do. We truly believe that by collaborating with people with different experiences we drive innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team. Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. learn more.
Primary country and city: Italy (IT) || Roma
Req ID: 788067
Starting Salary in Primary Location: EUR 55440.0
The position includes benefits and employment conditions in accordance with the Telecomunications National Collective Labour Agreement and Company-Union Agreements.
We believe in rewarding talent fairly and transparently. We remain flexible to ensure we attract and retain exceptional people. Final offers may vary depending on experience, skill and other factors aligned with our Total Rewards philosophy.
Skills Required
- Master of Law degree
- Minimum four years of relevant experience
- English proficiency at C1 level
- German proficiency at B1 level
- Strong business interest, knowledge, and understanding
- Excellent presentation, communication, drafting, and negotiation skills
- Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating agreements
- Knowledge of intellectual property rights commercialization and protection
- Knowledge of data protection legislation
- Strong commercial acumen and business judgment
- Ability to work effectively under pressure
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Ericsson builds the digital connectivity the world relies on. Our technology underpins the mobile networks, platforms, and systems that billions of people, businesses, and societies depend on every day. We are a global leader in communications technology, delivering mobile network infrastructure, cloud software, and wireless connectivity solutions for service providers and enterprises worldwide. Our networks support connectivity across 180+ countries, helping power everyday communication as well as critical digital services at global scale. Connectivity has evolved far beyond consumer mobile use. Today, nearly 80% of the world’s population accesses the internet via mobile networks, and Ericsson is helping shape what comes next. We are advancing 5G and 5G Advanced, developing network APIs that open connectivity to the global developer ecosystem, and applying automation and AI to make networks more intelligent, efficient, and resilient. Ericsson was the first company to launch live 5G networks on five continents, and our 5G platform is now commercially live in 150+ networks across 60+ countries. We also support more than 36,000 enterprise customers, enabling secure, high-performance connectivity for industries such as manufacturing, aviation, logistics, utilities, and public safety, where reliability and performance are mission critical. Innovation is central to how we work. Ericsson has approximately 28,000 employees in research and development, backed by one of the strongest intellectual property portfolios in the industry with 60,000+ granted patents. Our engineers, researchers, and technologists work across 100+ global R&D sites, helping define how networks evolve and how digital infrastructure is built for the long term. As the world moves toward a mobile-first, AI-powered, and cloud-driven future, connectivity becomes the foundation for digital transformation across every industry. Ericsson is building that foundation, shaping the future of digital connectivity through technology that operates at global scale and supports real-world impact, today and for what comes next.
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