The Role
As Senior Manager Legal, you will provide legal guidance on commercial contracts, support corporate transactions, and monitor EU regulations relevant to logistics.
Summary Generated by Built In
sennder is Europe’s leading digital freight forwarder. In the traditional logistics industry, we are moving fast to digitize and automate all road logistics processes. We move trucks with the power of data to unlock endless and sustainable capacity at exceptional quality. Get to know us better by reviewing our “About Us” presentation.
We are looking for a Senior Manager, Legal to join our growing legal function in Berlin. Reporting directly to the General Counsel, you will serve as the primary legal partner across commercial contracting, legal operations for your department, and strategic transactions. This is a high-impact role at the heart of a fast-moving logistics marketplace — offering significant autonomy, cross-functional exposure, and the opportunity to shape legal operations at scale.
What You Will Do
- Act as a trusted legal advisor to the stakeholders, flagging legal risk early and offering pragmatic, business-oriented solutions.
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial contracts, including shipper and carrier agreements, SaaS and technology contracts, NDAs, and partnership arrangements.
- Advise internal stakeholders on contract risk, liability exposure, and commercial terms across the shipper, carrier, and platform product lines.
- Own and maintain standard contract templates and playbooks, ensuring alignment with applicable European jurisdictions.
- Support the sales and operations teams in structuring complex cooperation and transport framework agreements and resolving contractual disputes efficiently.
- Contribute to corporate transactions such as acquisitions (M&A), cross-border joint venture projects, due diligence processes, and post-acquisition integration work, drawing on experience with recent acquisitions.
- Monitor regulatory developments in road freight, marketplace regulation, and platform economy law across key European markets.
What You Bring
- Qualified lawyer with a German law degree (Volljurist / Assessor) or equivalent qualification from an EU jurisdiction; additional common law qualification is a plus.
- 5–8 years of post-qualification experience, ideally combining in-house experience with a reputable law firm background.
- Strong track record in commercial contracting and commercial law, preferably with experience in logistics, marketplace, tech, or platform businesses. Experience in handling cross-jurisdictional matters is strongly recommended to succeed in this role.
- Solid understanding of, or willingness to dive deeper into, EU regulatory frameworks relevant to logistics and digital platforms.
- Commercially minded with the ability to translate legal complexity into clear, actionable guidance for non-legal stakeholders.
- Strong drafting skills in both German and English — fluency in both languages is required.
- Excellent negotiation skills with a pragmatic, solutions-oriented approach to risk.
- Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple priorities and tight deadlines.
- Collaborative, proactive, and eager to build — not just advise.
WHY CHOOSE sennder…
We believe in empowering our people to grow beyond their limits, embrace challenges, and create solutions that drive our collective success. Our culture thrives on entrepreneurial spirit, resilience, and collaboration.
Dynamic Scale-Up sennder is at a pivotal stage – transitioning from a scale-up to a sustainably growing company. This means we move fast and constantly push ourselves to improve. Joining us means being part of an ambitious, international team of talented individuals who value teamwork as much as bold thinking. Face-to-face connections across our offices remain central – it's not uncommon to travel to our offices across Europe to collaborate as we tackle challenges and celebrate wins, together.
Put Your Stamp on the Industry We operate in a complex and ever-changing industry where your ideas and efforts have tangible, transformative impact. This is your chance to be hands-on in creating sustainable, meaningful solutions that help businesses thrive.
Employee Well-Being We make mental wellbeing and engagement a priority through initiatives like our sennCare program, a partnership with nilo (global wellbeing platform), and regular satisfaction surveys via Culture Amp. And most importantly, work alongside people who truly care about you as a person. There is something special about the people at sennder that goes beyond just ‘work’.
Your Growth, Rewarded We believe in rewarding our team for their commitment and contributions to our long-term success. Our compensation package may include performance bonuses, referral rewards, or equity that align with our goal of building a thriving company together. We're excited to grow with you!
Vibrant Workspaces Our offices are equipped with healthy snacks, focus zones, and social areas to keep you energized and connected. When you walk into a sennder office, you immediately feel the sennder spirit: our shared culture paired with each location’s own unique character. Highlights include a slide in our Wroclaw office and a sunny rooftop terrace in Berlin, Amsterdam, and Milan! We also enjoy coming together regularly, from monthly aperitivos to spontaneous team moments.
We celebrate diversity and value your character just as much as your skills. If you don’t meet every requirement, don’t worry, we still encourage you to take a chance and apply. Bring your authentic self and help us shape the future of logistics in Europe.
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Skills Required
- Qualified lawyer with a German law degree (Volljurist / Assessor) or equivalent EU qualifications
- 5-8 years of post-qualification experience in a law firm or in-house
- Strong track record in commercial contracting and commercial law
- Fluency in German and English with strong drafting skills
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The Company
What We Do
sennder – Europe’s #1 digital freight-forwarder platform for Full Truck Loads. sennder is a leading digital road freight forwarder in continental Europe, linking large commercial shippers with small freight carriers. With its in-house-developed platform, sennder provides a new level of automation, transparency and efficiency to the European €300 billion road freight market, which until now has been dependent on paper, phone and fax and characterized by multi-layer subcontracting. sennder’s digital connection to over 40,000 trucks allows for almost unlimited capacities, no matter what time of the day. sennder digitalizes the truckload-shipping ecosystem by providing mobile apps to drivers, fleet management tools to carrier managers and logistics management solutions to shippers. Real-time booking, a designated contact person always on hand, as well as precise live tracking, bring full transparency to any logistics supply chain. By integrating directly with the shippers’ Transport Management and Freight Management Systems via APIs and by cutting the multiple middle men, sennder increases efficiency and reduces cost for all stakeholders
