Job Description
foodora is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, and our mission is to deliver an amazing experience—fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in about 70 countries worldwide. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany, Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017.
Are you up for a new and fun challenge putting your legal skills to work as a true business partner in a fast paced and highly entrepreneurial environment? Our last mile delivery company has long ago moved up from the startup phase, and we can hardly call ourselves a scale-up anymore, but that feeling and mentality is something we never want to let go of. As a Head of Legal for Austria at foodora, based in Vienna, you will be primarily responsible for most legal matters of our Austrian business. You will report to our regional Head of Legal, foodora and work closely with the rest of our European legal team as well as with colleagues at Delivery Hero’s other regional and central headquarters.
Responsibilities
1. Acting as a business partner to local management and other stakeholders providing legal solutions to the organisation
2. Building and leading the local legal team in Austria
3. Providing legal advice on various topics such consumer protection law, labor law, and commercial contracts
4. Collaborating with regional and global legal team members at Delivery Hero group ensuring alignment with and implementation of the group’s legal and governance standards
5. Collaborating with regional legal, product and commercial teams ensuring legal review and execution of product and commercial initiatives
6. Developing legal frameworks and processes for legal compliance
7. Working closely with the team to ensure legal compliance processes are adhered to and playing a driving role in implementing system changes and creating awareness of legal compliance in operations
8. Supporting Public Affairs: Support in developing public policy strategies in Austria in collaboration with the regional Public Affairs team
9. Supporting in identifying, assessing, and addressing regulatory challenges to business objectives
Qualifications
You are
10. A legal generalist: You either are or want to become a legal generalist with primarily responsibility of legal matters in the Austrian business
11. Solution-oriented: You possess exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, focusing on ways to solve the tasks in a legally accurate yet pragmatic and timely manner
12. Structured: You can create structure even in the most unstructured environment
13. Business minded: Our legal team members are business-enablers and constant sparring partners to our commercial and operational teams where your business mindset will come well in hand!
14. Team player: You are a team player with excellent interpersonal skills and have a way to convey legal concepts and requirements in simple words for an audience of non-lawyers
Requirements
15. You are a fully-qualified lawyer in Austria with a university degree
16. You have at least six (6) years of post-graduation experience
17. You communicate fluently in English and German, orally and in writing
18. It will be considered a plus if you have experience from tech, platforms, FMCG, logistics/last mile delivery or other fast paced-environments such as start ups