Solo Legal Manager - Ghent

For a Data Management Company in Ghent, LegalUp Talents is looking for a Solo Legal Manager with experience in Business Law, fluent in Dutch & English

Our client helps companies make more data more deployable and thereby boost the data economy. They facilitate complex challenges in data technology, new data-driven ecosystems, and cross-sector innovation.

As Legal Manager, you are the strategic and operational compass for Legal & Compliance within the company. You combine proven experience as an in-house lawyer with a strong sense of ownership: you further build out the legal framework, steer priorities and risks, and ensure that cooperation with internal stakeholders and external partners remains legally robust and workable.

You act as a sparring partner to management, safeguard the legal quality of decisions, and translate legislation and regulations into clear policies, processes, and concrete actions.

• Strategic legal advice & management support
  • Advise executive/management team
  • Act as legal sparring partner on complex files and projects
  • Proactively assess legal implications of new initiatives
  • Contribute public law expertise; initiate and realize decree-level amendments where relevant
  • Develop and monitor legal roadmap
  • Act as Secretary to the Board of Directors
• Ownership of Legal & Compliance governance
  • Take end responsibility for the Legal & Compliance framework
  • Organize workable governance with stakeholders: decision-making, escalation paths, compliance safeguards
  • Monitor legislative changes
• Contract management & negotiations
  • Lead and support contract negotiations with suppliers and partners
  • Develop standards and playbooks
  • Safeguard consistency in contract quality, risk acceptance, decision levels and exception management
• Public law & government context
  • Contribute public law expertise; initiate and realize decree-level amendments where relevant
  • Advise on files with a public/government context
• External counsel & disputes
  • Manage cooperation with external lawyers and legal partners
  • Coordinate disputes and escalations; safeguard legal strategy, case build-up and internal communication
• Legal enablement: knowledge, training & process improvement
  • Build and maintain legal knowledge base
  • Deliver pragmatic awareness sessions and short trainings for stakeholders
  • Professionalize legal operations

• Master's degree in Law
• 7+ years of experience as an in-house lawyer, with a strong contract practice & stakeholder management
• Fluent in Dutch & English
• Legal sharpness combined with pragmatism: you make complex matters decidable and workable
• Ability to take autonomous ownership and prioritize, while collaborating in a broad stakeholder environment

• Affinity with data/IT/security or regulatory domains in digital environments
• Experience in or with a government context (public sector, agencies, intergovernmental cooperation)
• Experience with or affinity for public procurement /framework agreements and helping embed processes and risks organization-wide (procedure choice, award criteria, documentation, follow-up, disputes)
• French knowledge

Innovative team where digital transformation and business acceleration are central

Management team member, Board exposure, and a proactive & strategic role

Hybrid working, with at least two days per week in the Ghent office

Open-ended contract and a competitive salary package consisting of:

• An attractive gross salary supplemented by an individual and collective bonus system
• Mobility budget and a flat-rate expense allowance
• Meal vouchers & eco vouchers
• Extensive group & hospitalization insurance (family members can be included)
• Laptop and smartphone with subscription

Healthy work-life balance: a 40-hour work week, 32 days of leave, and 10 public holidays

Feel free to contact Eléonore van der Gracht by clicking the 'Apply' button, confidentially & without any commitment!

Mobile: +32 472 806 343

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