Legal Counsel

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Eindhoven
In-Office
Mid level
Internet of Things • Appliances • Manufacturing
The Role
The Legal Counsel provides legal support for commercial matters, contract negotiations, compliance, and claims handling while collaborating with internal and external experts.
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Job TitleLegal Counsel

Job DescriptionAbout Signify

Through bold discovery and cutting-edge innovation, we lead an industry that is vital for the future of our planet: lighting. Through our leadership in connected lighting and the Internet of Things, we're breaking new ground in data analytics, AI, and smart solutions for homes, offices, cities, and beyond.

At Signify, you can shape tomorrow by building on our incredible 125+ year legacy while working toward even bolder sustainability goals. Our culture of continuous learning, creativity, and commitment to diversity and inclusion empowers you to grow your skills and career.

Join us, and together, we’ll transform our industry, making a lasting difference for brighter lives and a better world. You light the way.

More about the role

We’re looking for a Legal Counsel to join our Legal Department in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. 

As Legal Counsel you’ll be part of the global Legal function of Signify with the responsibility for providing legal support to the Signify commercial organization in the Netherlands. The role consists of providing commercial advice, advising and supporting contract negotiations in all aspects, raising legal awareness, as well as claims handling.

We’re on the lookout for forward-thinking legal innovators with a passion for sustainability. If you match this description, get in touch!

Your challenge
  • Providing legal guidance and expertise to support business leaders and managers in daily decision-making processes

  • Collaborating as an integral member of the legal team, engaging both internal and external legal experts to deliver comprehensive and high-quality legal support

  • Serving as legal advisor on a wide range of contracting and commercial matters, in particular on products, systems, solutions and services businesses (projects), while considering commercial, operational and financial aspects

  • Advising on public procurement matters, government contracts and strategic business partnerships

  • Operating as Compliance Officer, helping to embed Signify’s Integrity code and Compliance into daily commercial practices, through awareness trainings and supported by subject matter experts at Group Legal across key compliance domains

  • Providing legal support on claims handling and litigation matters

  • Contribute to cross-functional legal initiatives, offering an unique opportunity to broaden your expertise and collaborate internationally with colleagues across diverse legal domains

More about you
  • Master’s degree in Dutch law

  • From 4 years of professional legal experience in various fields such as contracting, commercial, projects and compliance.

  • Practical, solution oriented while addressing legal requirements, exposure, and compliance

  • Good social and communication skills, native in Dutch, fluent in English

  • Experience in contract management and contract drafting

  • Experience in public procurement law is preferred

  • Able to explain and convince stakeholders, both internally as well as externally

  • Able to bridge business needs, corporate policies and applicable local laws including taking a stake in risk management

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills on different organizational levels

Everything we’ll do for you

You can grow a lasting career here. We’ll encourage you, support you, and challenge you. We’ll help you learn and progress in a way that’s right for you, with coaching and mentoring along the way. We’ll listen to you too, because we see and value every one of our 30,000+ people.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace fosters creativity, innovation, and a full spectrum of bright ideas. With a global workforce representing 99 nationalities, we are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment where every voice is heard and valued, helping us all achieve more together.

Come join us, and together we can light the way.

Who we are

Signify is the world leader in lighting. We provide professional customers and consumers with quality, energy-efficient LED lighting. And our lights, when connected, bring data to devices, apps and people – redefining what light can do and how you use it. Today, our innovations, such as LiFi – internet connectivity through light – , solar and horticultural lighting, contribute to a safer, smarter, more sustainable world. With 2024 sales of EUR 6.1 billion, approximately 29,000 employees and a presence in over 70 countries, we’re unlocking the extraordinary potential of light for brighter lives and a better world.

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The Company
Eindhoven
11,796 Employees

What We Do

Signify (Euronext: LIGHT) is the world leader in lighting for professionals, consumers, and the Internet of Things. Our Philips products, Interact systems and data-enabled services deliver business value and transform life in homes, buildings and public spaces. In 2023, we had sales of EUR 6.7 billion, approximately 32,000 employees and a presence in over 70 countries. We unlock the extraordinary potential of light for brighter lives and a better world. We have been in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index since our IPO for seven consecutive years and have achieved the EcoVadis Platinum
rating for four consecutive years, placing Signify in the top one percent of companies assessed. News from Signify can be found in the Newsroom, on X, LinkedIn and Instagram. Information for investors is located on the Investor Relations page

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