Ikea-Legal Counsel

Reference number: VL/BE/4145/25

Company Lawyer Permanent position Zaventem

Ikea | Legal Counsel

Onze cliënt

The IKEA vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. Their business idea is to offer well-designed, functional and affordable, high-quality home furnishing, produced with care for people and the environment.

The IKEA Brand unites more than 200.000 co-workers and hundreds of companies with different owners all over the world. It’s one brand, but it reaches millions of hearts and homes. Their value chain is unique. It includes everything from product development, design, supply, manufacture and sales – and of course it begins and ends with their customers.

The IKEA retail business is operated through a franchise system. Today, 12 different groups of companies market and sell the IKEA product range under franchise agreements with Inter IKEA Systems B.V. IKEA was founded in Sweden in 1943.

Functie

Ikea is looking for a Legal Counsel. The role is based in Zaventem and reports to the Country Legal Manager in Belgium. You will be working closely with the business in Belgium and with legal colleagues globally.

  • Give day to day legal support to the business and take clear responsibility for the legal matters;
  • Drive forward the legal topics as well as support implementation of standard processes and ways of working for our company;
  • Review, draft and negotiate commercial agreements and legal documents;
  • Handle Corporate housekeeping;
  • Actively support the business to secure the rights and assess the obligations in order to reduce exposure to legal risks;
  • Create awareness and understanding of the legal aspects or the business;
  • Actively support the Country Legal Manager to secure the legal function will be a center of expertise in the field of legal and governance, update IKEA Belgium on trends and changes in legislation and related cross-border matters.

Profiel

  • Master degree in law from a Belgian University with very good achievement and a minimum of 3 – 5 years professional experience in a legal environment;
  • A solid knowledge and application of legislation, legal systems and government policies in business and commercial environment;
  • Can act as a strategic business partner, with analytical skills able to translate business needs into legal solutions;
  • A sense of urgency and result orientation;
  • A solid problem solving ability;
  • Strong negotiation skills and is an excellent communicator;
  • Approachable and adaptable to ensure good interaction and collaboration as we are an international, diverse and inclusive business with people from all walks of life and backgrounds;
  • Native language: Dutch and/or French with a strong knowledge of English (fluent written and spoken as it is our group language)

Aanbod

At IKEA, we like to give you the space to take control of your own development and growth. We believe in entrepreneurship and initiative and want to make it easy for you. In the first few weeks/months, you will be offered a 5-step development plan to get you started, with enough personal space to create the learning moments you need.

In addition to a competitive remuneration, we offer also eco-vouchers, end-of-year bonus, holiday pay and sector premiums, private leasing of an electric bike, comprehensive hospitalization insurance and a private accidents insurance, pension savings.

We also offer extra-legal holidays, seniority holidays and for full-time colleagues 6 extra days off and nice extras such as ONE IKEA Bonus: an additional bonus based on country results and an IKEA Benefits at work: a portal offer you great discount for well-known stores and brands, a Mobile of your choice (Apple or Android) and a corresponding subscription, team outings & staff parties, because togetherness is very important to us !

Over Vialegis

Wij geloven dat we door perfecte matches te creëren tussen juridische professionals en bedrijven, niet alleen carrières kunnen transformeren, maar ook juridische teams kunnen versterken. Dit leidt tot meer succes en voldoening voor zowel kandidaten als klanten. Met een team van gemotiveerde drietalige recruitment partners hebben we al meer dan 1.000 vacatures succesvol ingevuld, met een indrukwekkende succesratio van 98% bij vaste aanwervingen.

Proces

We starten met een persoonlijk gesprek om jou en je ambities goed te leren kennen. Zo krijgen we een duidelijk beeld van je vaardigheden, verwachtingen en toekomstplannen.
Door jouw talenten en wensen te combineren met onze marktkennis vinden we de ideale match. We stellen posities voor die écht bij jou passen.
We stellen je voor aan onze klant en bieden persoonlijke begeleiding en coaching tijdens het hele proces. Zo ben je op elke stap voorbereid.
Ook na je start blijven we betrokken. Met regelmatige debriefings en feedback zorgen we ervoor dat jij een succesvolle en zorgeloze ervaring hebt.
Neem gerust contact op met Sara voor meer informatie.
Sara Berquin
Sara
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