EMEA Legal Counsel

Job Title: EMEA Legal Counsel

Location: Paris, France (14ème)

About Us: Insight is a Fortune 500-ranked global provider of hardware, software, cloud, and service solutions. We provide clients with the guidance and expertise needed to define, architect, implement, and manage technology today while transforming for tomorrow. Our EMEA Legal team focuses on providing clear, accurate, relevant, and timely advice and guidance on a variety of legal topics relating to our business sector, products, and services. Our portfolio of digital transformation services includes deep expertise in cloud, data, AI, cybersecurity and intelligent edge. 

We’re rated as a Great Place to Work in many of our operating countries, a Forbes Best Employer for Diversity and a Forbes World’s Top Female-Friendly Company.

We are currently looking for an experienced Legal Counsel to join our diverse international team supporting our EMEA region, with a primary focus on our French business. 

The Legal Counsel will provide advice on all legal and regulatory matters that impact Insight, working with all business functions to ensure compliance with all our related obligations. The legal team has a strong reputation for delivering legal advice and support on matters of key strategic, financial, and reputational importance to the business, all with a strong commercial awareness. The Legal Counsel will be expected to enhance the existing team, contributing to the overall strategic goals of Insight.

Summary of duties and responsibilities

• Provide legal advice and support to all areas of Insight’s business within France and across EMEA.
• Deliver timely and high-quality legal advice to the business in a practical and commercially focused way.
• Draft and negotiate commercial contracts (client and partner-facing) in French and English, and provide training on this matter to the wider Insight business.
• Advise internal clients including Sales, HR, Finance, Operations, Marketing, and Services including Solutions Delivery teams, and senior management on legal issues and risks, company policies and procedures, compliance with laws, and contracts.
• Anticipate legal and regulatory change and prepare the business to comply with and take commercial advantage of such changes.
• Work with our Data Protection Office providing legal support related to the GDPR.

Experience and skills

• The role would suit someone who has already gained a significant amount of experience as a Legal Counsel (at least 5 years), with international experience in-house and/or private practice experience with a reputable law firm being desireable.
• Strong commercial contracting experience including specifically relating to IT and Technology. Experience within the technology industry and contracting experience related to managed services/outsourcing is strongly desired.
• Relevant professional legal qualifications (at minimum a French Master’s degree in law is requested).
• Experience in dealing with Data Protection, Compliance, Litigation and/or Employment Law matters are strongly desirable.
• Fluency in French with strong written and verbal communication skills in English is a must

What we offer:

• The opportunity to work on innovative and challenging projects
• A collaborative and inclusive working environment
• Competitive salary and benefits package 
• Professional development and growth opportunities - a career path with global job opportunities
• Flexible working arrangements (2 days a week in the office and remote working)

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About Insight: 

We believe that by giving you the freedom to think big and empower you to reach your full potential, together we will achieve the best outcomes.  Along with excellent benefits and a compelling reward package, we offer the opportunity to work in a supportive environment with a high level of autonomy and creativity - there’s a reason our average employee tenure is over 6 years.   

We strive to display our three core values of Hunger, Heart and Harmony every day. They represent and drive who we are here at Insight and by doing so we are doing amazing things. Insight started in a garage in 1988 and it is through harnessing our three core values that two brothers, Eric and Tim Crown, steered Insight to the Fortune 500 company it is today. We are now a Global IT Services and Solutions business, passionate about helping customers and the real people who sit behind them. 

Application Details: 

Insight is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to achieving diversity and equality within our organisation. We seek out people from diverse backgrounds and encourage you to apply. 

We will endeavour to contact you within five business days, should we feel your profile is a good match for this role. If you do not hear from us within this timeframe, please presume that on this occasion, your application was not successful. 

A full job description will be provided upon application.