Legal Counsel for International Operations - Interim

Project overview

Department: Consulting and interim assignments

Do you have experience in independently negotiating international commercial agreements and thrive in a business-oriented legal role? Then this could be an interesting interim assignment for you.

Sharp Recruitment & Consultants is seeking, on behalf of a client, an experienced and business-oriented Interim Legal Counsel / Corporate Counsel for an international industrial group with extensive global operations.

Our client collaborates with some of the world's largest industrial and technology companies and has operations in a large number of countries. You will be part of a small legal function with broad international responsibility and work closely with the business on qualified commercial and legal matters.

About the assignment

As an Interim Legal Counsel, your primary focus will be on international commercial customer agreements and contract negotiations. You will work closely with the business and play a central role in dialogues and negotiations with large global customers and their legal representatives.

An important part of the assignment is to independently identify and assess legal and commercial risks, negotiate contract terms, and contribute solutions that work for the business.

In addition to contract work, you will provide ongoing business law advice and handle certain corporate law matters related to the group's international operations and subsidiaries.

Responsibilities

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for a confident and self-sufficient business lawyer with experience in international commercial agreements and independent contract negotiations.

You have a good understanding of how law and business interact and are used to working closely with commercial functions. You are comfortable negotiating with international customers and their lawyers and have the ability to identify which legal risks are essential to the business.

We would like you to have:

Experience from an international industrial group or a global technology company is a merit, but not a requirement.

As a person, you are business-oriented, pragmatic, and solution-focused. You have good commercial judgment and the ability to prioritize between different legal issues. You are confident in your expertise, communicate clearly, and can independently drive legal matters forward.

Practical information

Assignment: Interim Legal Counsel / Corporate Counsel

• Independently draft, review, and negotiate international commercial customer agreements.
• Handle complex B2B agreements and negotiations with large international customers.
• Provide legal support to the business in commercial matters and international customer relations.
• Identify, assess, and manage legal and commercial contract risks.
• Provide ongoing business law advice to the various functions of the business.
• Handle general corporate law matters and legal issues related to international subsidiaries.
• Collaborate with internal functions and external legal advisors as needed.
• A law degree and several years of relevant legal experience.
• Solid experience in international commercial contract law.
• Experience in independently negotiating major international B2B customer agreements.
• Experience from a business law firm and/or as a corporate counsel.
• Broad business law expertise and experience in business-oriented legal advice.
• Experience with international business relationships and working in an international environment.
• Very good English skills, both spoken and written.

Project details

Preferably early January 2027, with handover possibility

Assignment length: Until the end of August 2027

Scope: 80–100%

Jönköping, with some possibility for hybrid work

The client prefers that you have the opportunity to work regularly from the office in Jönköping, but there is flexibility in the arrangement. Consultants living elsewhere who can travel to Jönköping regularly are also considered.

Application

Does this sound like an assignment for you?

Welcome to submit your expression of interest to Sharp Recruitment & Consultants. Contact Mikaela Virsholm for questions.

Apply

• Start: flexible
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: SE
• Languages: Swedish, English