Legal & Compliance Lead

h3Legal Compliance Lead Legal / Compliance / Subsidies /h3 pAG Solution keeps growing, mostly through acquisitions. Every new entity brings its own contracts, registers, filings and local rules. Every country also has grants and tax incentives that nobody is claiming yet. Someone needs to keep all of that in order. That is this role. /p pAs our Legal Compliance Lead you make sure we stay legally sound, meet our regulatory obligations and claim the funding we are entitled to. You advise leadership and the teams on the ground, you handle what can be handled in-house, and for specialist or foreign questions you bring in external counsel and keep them on track. /p pYou report to our CHRO and work as a standalone role, with no direct reports. You do not need to know every legal system in Europe. You need to know when a question is yours, when it is not, and who to call. /p h3THREE PILLARS, ONE ROLE /h3 ul liLegal: advice, contracts, corporate governance across our entities, insurance, and managing our external law firms. /li liCompliance: GDPR, anti-bribery and corruption, fraud prevention, competition law, and new ESG reporting obligations. /li liSubsidies: finding grants and tax incentives, building the business case, and seeing applications through to the money arriving. /li liYou will probably come in strongest on the legal side. The other two pillars are where you will make the most visible difference. /li /ul h3WHAT YOU WILL DO /h3 ul liAdvise leadership and operational teams on legal questions, spot risk early, and decide what stays in-house and what goes to external counsel. /li liRun our external law firms across countries: brief them, track quality and cost, elevate when things slip, and report on legal spend so it stays transparent. /li liOwn the contract lifecycle, from drafting and negotiating to renewal. /li liMaintain our templates (employment, commercial, consulting, NDA), set clear sign-off rules, and keep every contract filed and easy to find. /li liKeep each entity in order with the country managers: shareholder registers, ownership structures, statutory changes, annual filings, board meetings and directors. Support due diligence on acquisitions, and the legal integration of new entities once the deal is done. /li liManage our corporate insurance (DO, general liability, employment practices liability, cyber), coordinate claims, and make sure cover keeps pace as we grow. /li liOversee compliance across all our countries. On GDPR you work with the Compliance Director and DPO: consent records, data subject requests, and flagging risk in how we process personal data. /li liFollow new legal, regulatory and ESG requirements and turn them into concrete actions, clear communication and training. Strengthen internal controls together with Finance and Audit. /li liFind grants, tax incentives and funding programmes (RD tax credits, training subsidies, schemes such as SIFIDE II in Portugal), size the opportunity per entity and build the business case for Finance. /li liBuild relationships with funding agencies and specialist consultants, manage applications and reporting, keep a subsidy calendar, and report on the pipeline every quarter. /li /ul h3What This Role Is Not /h3 ul liNot a catch-all in-house counsel. /li liDay-to-day questions are yours; specialist and foreign matters go to external counsel, whom you manage. /li liNot a tax specialist. /li liYou do not run tax strategy. You spot funding opportunities, build the case and see the application through. /li liNot the Compliance Director. ISO, information security and the wider compliance framework sit with them. You are their partner on GDPR and ESG. /li liNot an HR role. /li liYou report to the CHRO, but recruitment, LD and employee relations are not part of the job. /li /ul h3What We Are Looking For /h3 ul liA master's degree in law, broad general legal knowledge and a real interest in a range of practice areas. /li liAt least five years of relevant legal experience, ideally at a multinational or an international law firm. /li liIn-house or international experience counts strongly. /li liA track record in contract management and in coordinating external advisers across several countries. /li liThe two things we really screen for: you organise and delegate instead of trying to do everything yourself; and red tape does not put you off, you work your way through agency procedures and hit strict deadlines. /li liComfort with spreadsheets and tools for tracking contracts, entities and deadlines. /li liAn understanding of how subsidies connect to operations and cash flow, and the ability to turn legal requirements into actions people actually follow. /li liFluent Dutch and English. French, German or Spanish is a plus. /li liWillingness to travel around 15% of the time, to group entities, agencies and partners. /li /ul pIt helps if you have worked in a buy-and-build, MA or post-merger integration setting; know GDPR, ESG reporting or DO insurance; h