About this role
<p><strong>Mission: </strong></p> <div> <p>Act as a trusted legal advisor to the business, providing timely and commercially practical legal counsel to stakeholders in support of compliant, efficient, and strategic decision‑making in a fast‑paced international organisation.</p> </div> <div> </div> <div><strong>Your key responsibility:</strong></div> <div> <ul> <li>Draft, review, and manage a broad range of commercial agreements, ensuring legal accuracy, appropriate risk allocation, and alignment with business objectives</li> <li>Support governance structures and provide legal support to subsidiaries, acting as a trusted legal partner for operational and strategic matters</li> <li>Maintain and update legal frameworks for B2B and B2C e-commerce, including General Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policies and notifications, consumer facing policies and related commercial arrangements</li> <li>Handle global product liability matters, including the management of claims, risk assessments, and corrective actions in coordination with relevant stakeholders</li> <li>Handle intellectual property (IP) matters, including patent, trademark and related filings, portfolio management, and monitoring and enforcing of IP rights</li> <li>Advise on data protection matters, including DSG and GDPR compliance, collaborating with our subsidiaries to ensure compliance with applicable regulations and internal guidelines</li> <li>Support and coordinate corporate secretarial activities for relevant entities, ensuring sound corporate governance and compliance with statutory requirements in relevant jurisdictions</li> <li>Maintain and manage relationships with external legal counsels to support legal needs of the business including its subsidiaries</li> <li>Manage disputes and transactional matters and corporate development activities, including integration from a legal perspective.</li> <li>Partner with Compliance team and other departments on legal and regulatory matters relating to the production, import, marketing and distribution of products, including certifications.</li> <li>Supervise contract management of the business including across subsidiaries; maintain and further develop electronic contract management and archiving systems, and ensuring accessibility, compliance with internal standards and delegation of authority requirements</li> <li>Actively identify, analyse and manage areas of legal and regulatory risks for company operations and transactions.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Your profile:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Proven track record of post-qualification legal experience in an in‑house legal department, preferably with exposure to multinational corporate environment within the sporting goods or consumer products industry</li> <li>Completed higher education at tertiary level (Swiss federal diploma, Master’s degree or equivalent legal qualification) and admission to practice in at least one relevant jurisdiction </li> <li>Strong commercial judgment, stakeholder management, and leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to guide stakeholders to navigate complex situations and balance legal risk with business priorities</li> <li>Demonstrated expertise in commercial contracting, corporate law, legal compliance, IP and data protection; experience within international sporting goods industry would be an advantage</li> <li>Training abilities</li> <li>Excellent written and spoken English with additional language capabilities in German or French, enabling effective collaboration in an international environment</li> </ul> </div>