Legal Counsel

Company Description

We Dream. We Do. We Deliver.

About Merkle

For more than 35 years Merkle, a dentsu company we have put people at the heart of our approach to digital business transformation. As the only integrated experience consultancy in the world with a heritage in data science and our performance, Merkle delivers holistic experience that promotes growth, engagement, and loyalty. Merkle's expertise has earned recognition as a "Leader" by top industry analyst firms, in categories such as digital transformation, commerce, experience design, engineering and technology integration, digital marketing, data science, CRM and loyalty, and customer data management. With more than 16,000 employees, Merkle operate in 30+ countries throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. For more information, visit www.merkle.com.

We're searching for our newest member of our #amazingteam in the position of Legal Counsil reporting to the General Counsel (Czech Republic & Slovakia) located in our office in Prague, Czechia.

If you feel inspired by us, we'll probably be inspired by you. Join us now and apply online to make sure we match each other's expectations.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Job Description

Key responsibilities:

• Provide legal and strategic advice to stakeholders at various levels of the DACH organization, namely Switzerland, Germany, Czech Republic on legal subjects and legal risk to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and protection dentsu’s commercial interests
• Drafts, negotiates, and advises on commercial agreements, in particular IT-agreements
• Provides legal support on various matters to commercial and executive teams in contractual negotiations to achieve the most advantageous and/or beneficial legal and commercial terms for dentsu
• Delivers training and legal risk management programs to support senior management in strategically managing legal risks (e.g. business training, legal updates, etc).
• Implements best-practices in compliance, contracts management, intellectual property, data protection, IT and/or litigation
• Good know-how in terms of corporate law
• Helps to increase cost-efficient structures for working with outside counsel.
• Professionally driven and commercial business mindset; serves a "Business Partner" to dentsu's leadership team in DACH cluster, namely Switzerland, Germany, Czech Republic
• Ability to work with authorities

Qualifications

• Legal degree in Czech Law
• Professional experience in a legal department of a company or in a law firm
• Extensive interest in IT law
• Does understand business needs, stays fully compliant with all applicable laws and regulations
• Results driven and commercial business mindset; serves a "Business Partner" to leadership team in DACH cluster, namely Switzerland, Germany, Czech Republic
• Operational and hands on approach, able to gain the trust of the market and cluster leadership team.
• Positive and proactive attitude, who can work autonomously, and within a team.
• Communicative and flexible personality
• Business & legal German and English

Additional Information

With us, you will become part of:

• An international team, where you can gain new/relevant experience.
• A dynamic environment where you will never happen to fall into a routine work
• Possibility to develop
• Start-up agile atmosphere
• Friendly and fun international team of creative minds
• 🏜 5 weeks of vacation + 3 wellness days
• ❤️ 2 Volunteering days to share the kindness of your heart with others
• ⏰ Flexible working hours and home office after agreement with manager
• 🎓 Full access to Dentsu Academy, Percipio, on-site learning sessions
• 🐶 Dog-friendly office
• 💌 Edenred meal vouchers and cafeteria points (life/pension insurance)
• 🍹 Team events: company parties, monthly breakfasts, etc.
• 🥪 Snacks and drinks at the office
• 💸 Referral bonus programme
• 💻 Laptop + equipment
• 📞 Corporate mobile phone subscription
• Flexible hybrid home office work conditions.

Inclusion and Diversity

We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications - regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/worldview, disability, age, as well as sexual orientation and identity.

As part of our Diversity and Inclusion agenda, and as an Equal Opportunities employer, if you require reasonable adjustments during the selection process please engage directly with your Recruiter.

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