General Counsel / Associate Director Legal & Compliance

The role

Reporting to the Benelux CEO, this role will provide support to the entire Benelux business. The work is exciting, impactful and ever-evolving. This is not an average lawyer role! This role provides  the opportunity to be a generalist with a proactive, entrepreneurial and business-focused approach. You will solve complex legal issues facing the business, both locally and internationally, and mitigate legal risk. You will act as a sparring partner for the Benelux Senior Management Team. It’s an unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in further developing the Benelux legal department (3 direct reports).

In this role as General Counsel Benelux you are responsible for legal & compliance within HelloFresh Benelux. You are a hands-on lawyer and, together with your team, used to provide your colleagues with legal and strategic advice. To achieve this you have a sound legal background, management experience and you are a team player. .

What you’ll do

• Be responsible for the delivery of practical, timely and expert legal advice and guidance to the executive management team, heads of department and key internal and external stakeholders with respect to legal, risk and compliance issues related to the development and execution of HelloFresh’s business strategy.
• Act as a sparring partner for senior management and proactively give advice and have a strong ability to collaborate cross-functionally
• Manage your team to give proactive legal advice to the broader organization
• Responsible for the contracting life cycle for commercial and general business related contracting 
• Responsible for all litigation and legal conflicts. Close collaboration with the People team on various People and employment law related topics
• Internally represents HelloFresh Benelux in all compliance related matters as the Local Compliance Officer (Global and local Compliance Committees)
• Represent HelloFresh Benelux externally as the Data Privacy Officer (DPO)
• Work closely with the global legal and compliance teams to address risks facing the business
• Engage and oversee work of external legal counsel, where appropriate
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of recent legal developments, applicable laws and regulations and train the business accordingly

What you’ll bring

• You are an experienced (Dutch qualified) lawyer (at least 8 years experience), ideally you have both law firm and in-house experience representing e-commerce and B2C organizations. Employment law interest and/or experience is a pre
• You have experience across various areas of law including but not limited to: general commercial, contracting, data privacy, litigation, employment

  
  Benefits

  • Freedom to initiate, execute and implement your own ideas
  • The opportunity to engage and collaborate with our colleagues across the globe
  • Learning and development opportunities including a personal development budget
  • 24 holidays per year, plus 1 day per additional year of work
  • A hybrid work setup, with a budget to help set up your home office
  • Flexibility to work abroad
  • Reimbursement of travel expenses to the office 
  • A discount on your weekly HelloFresh and/or Green Chef box
  • Our FreshEnergy program including bootcamp, yoga, boxing, Headspace subscription, a collaboration with OpenUp for your mental wellbeing, webinars and other events
  • Multiple ways of getting to a work-related appointment, for example by using our company cars or a MyWheels car
  • Discount on your ClassPass subscription, and a discount for your gym membership via Bedrijfsfitness Nederland 
  • Discount on your additional health insurance through Zilveren Kruis 
  • Healthy lunches, fruit and snacks in the office 
  • Monthly pension scheme 

  
  
  

  🌱 Grow your career at HelloFresh 

  A career at HelloFresh is an opportunity to make an impact in a world-leading meal-kit company. Through our Learning Never Stops core value, we empower you to take your career development to your highest potential…but we don’t just want to say it, we want to show it too. 

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  • Valerie Blank’s journey from Junior Sampling Coordinator to Team Lead of Product Marketing

Are you up for the challenge?

Please submit your complete application below including your salary expectations and earliest starting date.

After submitting an application our team will review this and get back to you within 5 business days.