Legal counsel - Logistics Operations

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you.

We’re a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience. Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

As part of our dynamic Legal team, you will empower our global logistics operations through sound guidance and collaborative risk management. Living our values to Lead, Deliver, and Care, you’ll aim high by providing independent legal support for our employed-courier operational workforce while helping teams make faster, better-controlled decisions in a fast-paced environment.

• Provide independent legal support for logistics operations and employed-courier matters across our assigned global portfolio.
• Advise Operations, Human Resources (HR), and market stakeholders on legal risk linked to courier scheduling, claims, and service delivery.
• Manage escalations, disputes, and litigation connected to logistics operations, including managing external counsel.
• Translate operational and regulatory requirements into practical global guidance, decision guardrails, and templates.
• Assess proposed operational changes to define clear legal mitigations and structured approval routes.
• Coordinate across Employment Law, Public Affairs, and Compliance on cross-cutting workforce and regulatory topics.

• Qualified lawyer credential with background handling employment, logistics, operations, or regulatory legal matters.
• Proven ability to evaluate operational workforce issues with material legal, financial, or reputational impacts.
• Strong track record of managing disputes, litigation, or regulatory authority engagements in an operational context.
• Outstanding judgment, prioritization skills, and collaborative stakeholder management across international markets.
• Capability to convert complex legal matters into practical playbooks and clear implementation guidance.
• Professional experience operating within a multi-country marketplace, platform, or logistics business.

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.

Being the best at what we do isn’t just about delivering on our strategy. It's a competition for something incredibly valuable – our customers' choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they're picking a side.

At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers’ loyalty, again and again.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, we’re building a customer-first culture which enables us to stay one step ahead of the competition.

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

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