Legal Counsel, EMEA
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Legal Counsel supporting Amcor’s global packaging business across EMEA sales, procurement, contracts, disputes, compliance, and strategic transactions.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage sales- and procurement-related legal matters across Amcor Rigids EMEA
- Serve as the key legal partner to sales and procurement functions
- Support strategic projects, contract negotiations, regulatory advice, and dispute resolution
- Draft, review, negotiate, and administer complex sales and procurement agreements
- Manage long-term supply agreements, framework agreements, and strategic supplier partnerships
- Develop and improve handbooks, forms, training materials, and processes
- Draft and deliver commercial-law training to sales and procurement teams
- Lead or support litigation and pre-litigation strategy and negotiate settlements
- Supervise or coordinate outside counsel
- Provide broader counsel on commercial contracting, compliance, dispute resolution, and special projects
- Support commercial and compliance-related disputes through mediation, arbitration, or litigation
- Support M&A execution, due diligence, and integration activities
- Identify legal risks and partner with Compliance on regulatory adherence and ethics governance
- Improve legal processes, templates, tools, and operational systems
- Report to the business group General Counsel and coordinate with the wider Legal team
Requirements:
- Law degree with qualification to practice law in a country of the European Economic Area, preferably the UK, Germany, France, or Italy
- Minimum of 5 years of post-qualification experience in legal practice focused on commercial law
- Deep expertise in drafting and negotiating high-value sales and procurement agreements
- Expertise in risk allocation, service levels, and long-term strategic sourcing
- Proven capability in claim handling and litigation management
- Track record resolving customer and supplier disputes through negotiation and formal legal proceedings or arbitration
- Rigorous training within an international law firm/private practice
- In-house experience within a large organization as a direct partner to business stakeholders
- Prior manufacturing or complex B2B experience highly advantageous
- Understanding of global supply chains, global sourcing, and industrial services legal challenges
- Experience in an international or multi-jurisdictional framework
- Comfort navigating cross-border contracts, international trade regulations, and diverse legal systems
- Working knowledge of emerging sales and procurement regulations, including ESG compliance (CSDDD), CBAM, EUDR, GDPR, and modern trade sanctions is viewed favourably
Benefits:
- Full-time employee position
- Remote work arrangement
- Opportunity to join a global packaging company
- Training and development through legal handbooks, forms, processes, and commercial-law training
- Collaboration with international and cross-functional teams
- Exposure to strategic projects, M&A, due diligence, and integration activities
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