Legal Counsel

Company Description

ABOUT FOODORA: foodora is a quick commerce and delivery company, present in eight countries in Europe - Austria, Czech, Hungary, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Slovakia. With the mission to deliver an amazing, fast and affordable experience, foodora aims to give customers more time to focus on what matters most to them, as well as growing along with their partners, riders and community along the way. foodora is part of Delivery Hero, a pioneer quick commerce company, building the next generation of e-commerce across its operations in over 70 countries across Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.
For more information, please visit www.foodora.com
foodora is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s leading local delivery platform operating in 70+ countries worldwide

Job Description

Are you up for a new and fun challenge putting your legal skills to work as a true business partner in a fast paced and highly entrepreneurial environment? Our last mile delivery company has long ago moved up from the startup phase, and we can hardly call ourselves a scale-up anymore, but that feeling and mentality is something we never want to let go of. As a Legal Counsel at foodora you will be primarily responsible for most legal matters of our Finnish business. You will report to our regional Head of Legal in Berlin and work closely with the rest of our European legal team as well as with colleagues at Delivery Hero’s regional and central headquarters.

Your mission: 

• Advising management on all things legal

• Drafting commercial contracts and partnership agreements and negotiating those with our largest accounts

• Regularly drafting or revising general terms and conditions applicable to our customers, partners, and products

• Continuously advising on legal requirements relating to launching new businesses or developing and expanding our existing businesses

• Monitoring of legal trends and legislative changes in the local market in a number of fields relating to our business

• Holding trainings and creating awareness within the organisation to ensure compliance with applicable laws and internal policies

You are: 

• Solution-oriented: You possess exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, focusing on ways to solve the tasks in a legally accurate yet pragmatic and timely manner

• Structured: You can create structure even in the most unstructured environment.

• Business minded: Our legal team members are business-enablers and constant sparring partners to our commercial and operational teams where your business mindset will come well in hand!

• Team player: You are a team player with excellent interpersonal skills and have a way to convey legal concepts and requirements in simple words for an audience of non-lawyers

Qualifications

• You are a fully-qualified lawyer with a university degree

• You have at least four years experience from a law firm or as an in-house counsel 

• You communicate fluently in Finnish and English, orally and in writing

• It will be considered a plus if you have experience from tech, platforms, FMCG and logistics/last mile delivery and other fast paced-environments such as start ups 

Additional Information

Benefits
● Insurances from IF:
○ Health Insurance
○ Leisure-time accident insurance
○ Travel insurance
● 400€ Epassi benefit / year that can be used for sports, culture, commute and wellbeing
● Employee discount on our foodora app!
● Wellbeing co-operations with Gyms
● 30 min massage per month provided by Fysios Mehiläinen
● Tax-free employee bike benefit
● Employee Referral Bonus

Other Benefits and Amenities

Parties & Fun:

● Team Events
● Company events (Summer & Xmas)
● Birthday Gifts
● Christmas Presents
● Monthly activities at the office
● Epic new office in the heart of the city center Elielinaukio, where we also have a Pool table, Wall bars, Gym sticks, Fresh fruits weekly, Amazing coffee machine and & loads of tea
● Playstation 4