The Legal Counsel will review and negotiate various commercial contracts while providing legal guidance to sales, procurement, and product teams. Additionally, the role involves managing data protection compliance, monitoring EU digital regulations, and coordinating legal documentation processes.
Your mission
As Legal Counsel, you will be a key partner to our sales, procurement, and product teams — reviewing and negotiating contracts, advising on data protection and European digital regulation, and helping keep our legal documentation and compliance processes up to date. You'll work independently on a broad range of legal topics in the SaaS and IT space, with support from external specialists where needed.
Your work spans:- You review incoming customer contracts, draft new agreements based on our templates and internal guidelines, and lead negotiations on legal terms.
- You assess legal clauses and data protection provisions in supplier, vendor, and third-party agreements, including NDAs and codes of conduct submitted by customers and partners.
- You work closely with our external Data Protection Officer, handling Data Processing Agreements and customer data protection inquiries, and maintain our privacy policy, sub-processor list, and data protection management system.
- You monitor and advise on EU digital and data law developments — particularly the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and NIS2 — and assess their impact on our products and contracts.
- You provide day-to-day legal guidance to the sales team throughout customer deals, perform compliance checks during customer onboarding, and coordinate contract signatures and our legal document repositories.
- You support and coordinate trademark filings and searches with external counsel, and act as a stakeholder in initiatives to simplify our contract templates and streamline approval processes.
Your profile
- You hold a legal degree (Master's).
- You have a solid understanding of European IT and contract law; experience in the SaaS or technology industry is a plus.
- You bring practical knowledge of data protection law (GDPR) and familiarity with EU digital regulation such as the CRA or NIS2.
- You have strong contract drafting and negotiation skills, paired with a pragmatic, business-oriented approach.
- You work independently, structure your own workload, and quickly get up to speed in new subject areas.
- You are fluent in English, comfortable with standard tools such as MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and enjoy working in a constantly changing and evolving environment.
Why us?
Here you can find our benefits: PTV Logistics Employees Benefits | PTV Logistics
Further information
Contact Person
Magdalena RiffaultSenior Talent Acquisition Partner
About us
PTV Logistics - a leading global software company for transportation logistics!
We calculate and optimize route planning for logistics companies with record-breaking algorithms to maximize time and cost savings. With more than 40 years of experience, we help to put theory into practice!
Interested? Then take a look at our website: https://www.ptvlogistics.com/en