RESOLVA is assisting Nuuday with the recruitment of a Legal Counsel or Senior Legal Counsel to their Legal & Compliance Team
Job description
Nuuday is looking for a dedicated and professionally skilled lawyer to take on the position as Legal Counsel or Senior Legal Counsel (depending on level of seniority and relevant experience), reporting directly to General Counsel Julie Mühldorff Sigurd.
As Legal Counsel or Senior Legal Counsel, you will become part of the Legal & Compliance Team, which is a core function in Nuuday’s organization and provides legal support to the Board, the Management Team and various group functions on a variety of critical paths.
The Legal & Compliance Team currently consists of a team of 13 highly skilled and committed professionals (9 attorneys, 1 assistant attorney, 1 security consultant, 1 project manager and 1 law student), who provide best in class legal and regulatory support and pull in the same direction and support each other, recognizing collaboration as their strength. The Legal & Compliance Team is led by General Counsel Julie Mühldorff Sigurd, who is also Board Secretary.
You will act as a constructive advisor to both the commercial organization and the corporate Management Team, providing guidance and direction which reflect sound judgement and legal knowledge and expertise. You will be supporting within a wide range of legal areas, including within IT and technology law, corporate governance, marketing law and corporate law, IP law and general contract law. You may also be supporting within competition law. In undertaking such tasks, you will interact with a variety of internal as well as external stakeholders.
To succeed in the role, you need to be pro-active by nature and practical, structured and business-oriented in your approach. You are a person who thrives in a fast-paced environment, and you possess the ability and willingness to support and advise within a broad field of legal areas and to adapt to changes, including changes that affect the prioritization of tasks.
You will be working from the offices at the Nuuday Head Quarter in central Copenhagen.
Responsibilities
In the role as Legal Counsel or Senior Legal Counsel, you will play an essential role in driving the legal efforts in Nuuday.
Your main responsibilities will be the following:
- Drafting, negotiating and advising in relation to various IT, telco and technology contracts, such as outsourcing contracts, reseller agreements, SaaS, PaaS and IaaS contracts, communications and network agreements and licensing agreements, as well as other commercial contracts.
- Advising in relation to various large purchase projects within relevant product areas (e.g., television or telecommunication), including drafting and negotiating the relevant documentation.
- Generally, advising and supporting the business within a variety of commercial legal areas.
- Managing contractual claims and disputes.
- Potentially (depending on your expertise and interests), advising in relation to competition law and handling competition law cases in cooperation with external legal counsels.
- Generally, advising on and responding to ad-hoc requests and queries from various stakeholders across the different business units and providing business oriented legal solutions to complex and novel problems in a fast-moving environment, which allows the business to progress without exposing the company to unacceptable risks.
Title and reporting to
Reporting to: General Counsel Julie Mühldorff Sigurd
Your Title: Legal Counsel or Senior Legal Counsel, Legal & Compliance Team
Ideal experience
Education: You are a qualified lawyer (cand.jur. or cand.merc.jur.) with a strong academic legal background combined with not less than 3 (and potentially several more) years of practical experience within relevant legal areas, preferable from a commercial environment such as a law firm and/or a group function in a larger private company.
Legal Specialisation: You have competences within corporate and commercial law. You have solid contract law experience and are experienced in structuring, preparing, and negotiating terms and conditions of different types of commercial contracts and in advising on transaction structures. You may also have experience with M&A transactions or other transactional projects. Preferable (but not necessarily), you have some knowledge of either IT/technology law or competition law.
Language skills: You have excellent written and verbal communication skills in the Danish and English languages.
Personal capabilities
Stakeholder Management: You can build and maintain working relationships at all levels in the organisation as well as externally. You can balance the requirements of different stakeholders.
Work Style: You are thorough, practical, and structured in your work style. You are pragmatic and open-minded in your approach to solve commercial challenges, and you are comfortable with taking on assignments outside your area(s) of expertise.
Drive: You have a good sense of driving for results and project progress and thrive in a dynamic work environment.
Business acumen: You have a strong business understanding and can assimilate information quickly, which enable you to make clever legal choices and prioritisations. You have good abilities in balancing legal and commercial interests.
Cooperation: You have a team-oriented mind-set and a strong sense of collaborative efforts and pulling as a team.
Communication: You have strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to keep things simple by finding the right balance between important details and clear communication.
Nuuday’s Value Proposition to you
In Nuuday, the ways of working are centered around creating better solutions with more effect for the customers, and to achieve this, Nuuday supports its employees’ growth and development. Nuuday offers great opportunities for you to explore new, cool corners of your career. They reward excellence in craftsmanship, customer centricity and teamwork, and they recognise your progression, even if you do not take on a leadership role.
The role as Legal Counsel or Senior Legal Counsel at Nuuday is a unique opportunity to become part of successful company which is on an exciting journey due to the ongoing transformation, and to work in a creative, dynamic, and intense working environment.
A career at Nuuday gives you flexibility, allows you to learn new things fast, and rewards you in a fair and transparent way. With Nuuday, you will get responsibility and creative support. Additionally, you will be offered attractive working conditions, including a competitive compensation package.
About Nuuday
Nuuday provides digital services, cloud solutions and entertainment (including TV, broadband, networking and telephony), across the eight strong brands: YouSee, TDC Erhverv, Telmore, Hiper, Netdesign, YouTv, Eesy and Relatel. The company delivers innovative market-leading connectivity products and digital services to approximately 70 % of Danish households and businesses and has 6 million customer relations across its eight brands – which makes it by far the largest provider of digital services in Denmark.
Following its establishment as an independent entity within the TDC group in 2020 whereby it became a separate entity owned by TDC Holding and with TDC NET as a sister company, Nuuday has been – and is still – undergoing a significant transformation in both its value creation journey and its operating model. Being part of the TDC group, Nuuday has the powerful reach and collective knowledge of a large organisation combined with the mindset of a start-up, which enable it to push boundaries and to offer a very inspiring working environment.
The start-up mindset at Nuuday implies that the time from thought to action is short. Additionally, due to the size of the organisation, Nuuday has the power to make a genuine difference in society and is always aspiring to do good and seize any opportunity to be better, both as a responsible company and as a team of skilled individuals with the shared purpose of creating a more meaningful future for customers and society.
Nuuday takes the lead in putting the possibilities of technology into play and create digital services that truly add value to their customers’ everyday lives – always being mindful of ensuring and protecting their customers’ privacy and security.
Nuuday is headquartered in Teglholmsgade 1 in central Copenhagen and employs around 4,000 professionals.
You can learn more about Nuuday at www.nuuday.com.
Application and contact
If you recognise the profile we are looking for in yourself and find this opportunity attractive please apply here and include a resume and other relevant documentation or contact Christina Balling Schmidt on tel. 30103918 from Resolva to hear more about the position.
We will be conducting interviews as applications come in on a continuing basis, so please send your application as early as possible.
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