Senior Legal Counsel Business and Contract Law (f/m)

• *Job Description:**
• *Airbus Commercial** is looking for a **Senior Legal Counsel Business and Contract Law (f/m) **to join the Airbus Commercial Legal & Compliance Department that is based in** Toulouse, France.**

You will be part of a multicultural team providing legal support to Procurement, Manufacturing, Sales, Digital and Customer Services Departments of Airbus Commercial, and primarily focused on strategic Procurement matters.

• Your working environment:*

Global capital of aeronautics and European capital for space research, Toulouse is a dynamic city in the southwest of France served by an international airport. Ideally located between the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean and close to the Pyrenees mountains, it offers plenty of options for outdoor activities!

• How we care for you:*
• Financial rewards: Attractive salary, agreements on success and profit sharing schemes, employee savings plan abounded by Airbus and employee stock purchase plan on a voluntary basis.
• Work / Life Balance: Extra days-off for special occasions, holiday transfer option, a Staff council offering many social, cultural and sport activities and other services.
• Wellbeing / Health: Complementary health insurance coverage (disability, invalidity, death). Depending on the site: health services center, concierge services, gym, carpooling application.
• Individual development: Great upskilling opportunities and development prospects with unlimited access to +10.000 e-learning courses to develop your employability, certifications, expert career path, accelerated development programmes, national and international mobility.

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. In a dynamic environment, and wherever possible, Airbus currently offers some flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking. ** Your challenges: ** Legal support to strategic procurement matters and other Legal Contract team matters: You will deliver legal, structuring and negotiation support primarily to the Airbus Commercial Aircraft Procurement Department in liaison with other Legal Departments within Airbus, such as Compliance, Competition and others as well as with other Airbus functions such as Digital, Finance and Engineering. In particular:

• Lead and coordinate the French law legal support to Procurement Equipment & Systems and Cabin business segments. You will interact with and support Top Company Executives in this leadership role protecting Airbus' license to operate and grow.
• Support other Airbus Commercial Departments, such as Services, as may be required in the support of the legal contracts team activities.
• Identify and assess legal risks in, primarily, Procurement contracts under French law, and potentially certain other Procurement contracts under other governing laws, initiating and monitoring any corrective and risk mitigation actions.
• Support proactively in pre-litigation and litigation matters together with any relevant Departments. You will supervise external legal counsel whenever required.
• Simplify and adapt standard documents, tools and processes to take into account the changing, competitive, technological and legal environment. You will also support digital matters as may be required.
• Provide training sessions to legal contracts members and internal customers.
• * Your boarding pass: **
• French law qualification is mandatory.
• At least 10 years of relevant experience in an international context, and in business & contract law
• Experience in bankruptcy law appreciated
• Team player with an ability to work with and across teams including Ethics & Compliance team.
• Ability to work efficiently to meet demanding deadlines while ensuring that the risks for Airbus are identified, mitigated and limited.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, organizational and analytical skills.
• Language skills: high-level drafting and negotiation skills in French and English are mandatory.

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