Senior Legal Counsel

Would you like to play a vital role in one of Denmark’s largest IT companies as our new Senior Legal Counsel? And do you want to get hands-on experience with IT contracts, GDPR, NIS 2, AI Act and possibly M&As – also in an international context?

Then join an international team of passionate colleagues and make your mark.

You will join our Global Legal and Contract Management Team
You will be part of a team of 9 colleagues, including our students, in the Global Legal and Contract Management Team. The team is primarily located in our headquarter in Denmark. The Legal team is responsible for providing operational legal counselling and support to all levels of the organization – from executive management to all our dedicated colleagues throughout NNIT.

You will interact on a regular basis with our international offices, especially the sales teams in US, Germany and Singapore as we have clients around the world.

We pay a great deal of attention to job satisfaction and your personal and professional development. You can count on developing your skills with interesting work, relevant training and personal development plans in an open and informal culture. We emphasize being good colleagues who support and learn from each other, share knowledge and make work a fun place.

Your responsibilities
As our new Senior Legal Counsel, you will together with the rest of the Legal team, act as trusted advisor on mainly contractual and IT related regulatory matters, but also corporate/M&A matters and contract management, if it has your interest. We work closely together with the NNIT business units as well as NNIT’s management and our other administrative functions to ensure professional and operation legal support to the business.

Your main responsibilities will be:

• Reviewing, drafting and participating in negotiating primarily customer contract, including DPAs, but also procurement contracts
• Advise on regulatory matters primarily within GDPR, NIS 2 and AI Act, but also on competition law and public procurement law now and then
• Handle disputes with customers and suppliers
• Possibly support in M&A transactions and daily corporate housekeeping, including integrations of acquisitions into the NNIT group
• Support the business with contract management activities
• Prepare and update standard contracts and policies

The legal team also secures regulatory compliance and you will be given certain compliance areas where you will be responsible for learning the compliance area and educating the rest of the legal team and the NNIT organization.

The culture in the department leaves room for your initiative and you will get the chance to work in depth with your role as Senior Legal Counsel.

Your qualifications and experience
Our new colleague has a Master’s degree in Danish Law (cand.jur or cand.merc.jur) combined with an extensive professional background as legal advisor – either from a law firm or as an in-house counsel, which has given you a high degree of insight into one or more of the areas complex IT contracts, GDPR and possibly also M&A transactions and international company law. Preferably you have extensive hands-on experience with drafting and negotiating different types of IT contracts, including consultancy contracts and DPAs as well as contract management hereof.

You have a natural interest in the IT market and are ready to explore and learn about our business as well as you are eager to learn about and advise on the new tech regulations. You have a solid commercial/strategic mindset and an open personality, which you together with your legal background and diplomatic skills use to rapidly assess potential risks and consequences of business and legal decisions, as well as solve complex issues and reach pragmatic solutions and consensus between parties.

We expect you to be a committed and passionate professional who thrives with teamwork, a high activity level and enjoys dynamic international environment with many different and ongoing tasks, and who also takes initiatives on its own. We take pride in living our values every day, so as an employee you should be able to see yourself in them. We are conscience driven, value adding, open and honest. You speak and write English and Danish effortlessly.

If you can recognize yourself in this description, then we would like to hear from you as soon as possible, as we interview candidates continuously. Please submit your application and CV in English.

A more inviting and open place of work
In the summer of 2024, NNIT's headquarters will move from Søborg to Islands Brygge (Weidekampsgade 14) in the center of Copenhagen to be better connected with customers and business partners and to provide employees with a more welcoming and open office environment.

The move to a new headquarters is a logical step on NNIT’s strategic journey to becoming the best possible digitalization partner for our customers – and at the same time becoming employer of choice.​

Customers and employees alike can look forward to better possibilities for collaboration on a larger scale in an environment focused on teamwork and culture. As well as providing a better connection to public transportation, hotels and airport - and of course with the lively city scene right outside the door with the harbor front Islands Brygge just minutes away.

Make your mark on a rapidly growing IT company
NNIT is a rapidly growing IT consulting firm with ambitious goals and over 1,700 employees. NNIT’s is on a strategic journey to becoming the best possible digitalization partner for our customers – and at the same time becoming employer of choice. Our customers are within life science globally and in Denmark also within the private and public sectors.

At NNIT, you can make your mark on some of the most challenging projects in the industry, on our journey forward as a company, and on your own career.

Department: Østmarken 3A, Søborg

Location: Copenhagen

Application deadline: 30 Apr 2024