This Is What Your Role Looks Like
As Legal Counsel Spain, you'll join our international legal team based at our headquarters in Hoofddorp. You'll be the legal point of contact for the Spanish market, advising various teams on a wide range of legal matters – from real estate contracts to Consumer Law. With your knowledge of Spanish law and an eye for risk, you'll directly contribute to our expansion and consolidation in Spain.
Your Responsibilities
Advise the international & Spanish Expansion Team, the Real Estate Team, the Property & Facilities Team and Operations on their questions.
Draft and review leases and supplier contracts, with the assistance or guidance of more senior colleagues.
Identify risk and work with the business to set up and maintain legal processes.
Work on claims, liability cases, Consumer Law, Administrative Law (such as inspections from authorities), civil litigation and other issues relevant to Spain, in close cooperation with the business and your legal colleagues for other regions.
Support any potential corporate transactions and day-to-day corporate legal matters.
Assist our Compliance & Privacy Officer on privacy issues related to Spain.
Provide administrative support (e.g. contract filing). Manage our CLM tool and other legal tools/databases and ensure their reliability to the business.
Who Are You?
You're an action-oriented lawyer with a drive for results, hands-on and pragmatic. You're curious, open, friendly and highly structured, and you feel at home in a dynamic, international environment.
Additionally, we're looking for someone with:
A completed law degree from a Spanish university.
Native Spanish and fluent English. Other relevant languages (FR, DE, NL) are a plus.
Approximately 3+ years of work experience, gained as a practising lawyer or an in-house legal counsel.
Experience with real estate law, procurement and/or consumer law.
What We Offer You
At Basic-Fit, it's not just about work, it's about your growth. As a Legal Counsel Spain, you'll have the freedom to make an impact and develop yourself in an evolving business environment. Our Legal department consists of 18 team members under the General Counsel, and you'll report to one of the three legal team managers.
What you can expect from us:
Learning & Development: Unlimited access to GoodHabitz and LinkedIn Learning and we offer Dutch Online Courses
Career Growth: Plenty of opportunities for professional and personal development.
Work Culture: An informal, international, and down-to-earth environment. We value working together, so we work 4 days in the office, 1 day from home.
Innovation: Your ideas contribute to strategic projects.
Salary: A monthly gross salary between €3.800 and €5.300 based on 40 hours, depending on your experience and background.
Perks & Benefits: Travel allowance, bike plan, health insurance discounts, remote work allowance, and a pension plan (52% contribution by Basic-Fit).
Fitness: Access to our gym at HQ.
About Basic-Fit
Basic-Fit is Europe's leader in the value-for-money fitness market, with more than 4.7 million members across 1,650+ clubs in 6 countries. We are continuously growing and improving. If you're looking for a place where you can make an impact while having fun at work, you've come to the right place!
What Makes Us Unique?
Work with Impact: What you do makes a difference. We don't just work for our members, partners, and teams—we work with them.
Collaboration: Everyone works together to achieve goals and celebrate success.
Diversity & Inclusion: We welcome everyone into our workplace.
🎯 Apply Now!
Ready for your next adventure? Click the Apply button, and we'll get in touch with you as soon as possible.
Questions? Feel free to contact Kerensa van der Lans (Senior Corporate Recruiter) at [email protected].
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Skills Required
- Completed law degree from a Spanish university.
- Native Spanish and fluent English.
- Approximately 3+ years of work experience as a practising lawyer or in‑house legal counsel.
- Experience with real estate law, procurement and/or consumer law.
- Experience managing a CLM tool and legal databases; contract filing and administrative legal tool management.
- Knowledge or experience with privacy/compliance issues (supporting Compliance & Privacy Officer).
- Knowledge of other languages (French, German, Dutch).
What We Do
Founded in 2013, Basic-Fit is proud to have more than 3,75 million members in more than 1,400 clubs across the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Spain, and Germany. Thanks to our fast growth we can call ourselves Europe’s value-for-money fitness leader. Our mission is to make fitness accessible. We believe that everyone who wants to get fit should be able to have access to fitness. With around 8,000 employees, we operate a simple membership model that provides a fitness experience that is both affordable and accessible. Our values are already represented in our name - B(Be), A(Accessible), S(Smart), I(Inclusive), and C(Committed). Our European HQ is located in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands, right outside of Amsterdam. We’re always looking for enthusiastic employees in both our clubs and HQs who share our passion for fitness and want to contribute to our fast-growing international company. Besides transparency, innovation is one of our top priorities. Are you proactive, have an open-minded personality, and are down to earth? Then you'll fit right in with us. GO FOR IT!
