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Established in July 2015, the EMEA Business Service Center (BSC) is dedicated to empowering seamless operations. As Eaton’s largest office location in EMEA and the region’s only hub for business services support, the BSC provides essential services — from strengthening customer relationships, to enabling our electrical, industrial and corporate teams to deliver outstanding results.

The BSC helps Eaton businesses create exciting new power management technologies that keep our world moving every day.

What you’ll do:

As an Attorney, Contracts you will be a part of the Law Department and take a lead role in providing legal support on commercial contracts across Eaton. You will be part of an international team working with our Sales and Supply Chain organisations as well as other Contract Managers and Business Attorneys in different locations and levels throughout Eaton. You will be responsible for leading legal support on commercial contracts – from review and drafting through negotiation, internal approval and contract finalisation.

• Analyse, interpret and negotiate terms and conditions for various commercial deals and projects, especially taking a lead role in negotiating complex, high value contracts and/or contracts for strategic accounts.

• Be part of the creation and implementation of contract management processes and ensure continued compliance with set processes, policies and standards throughout our Sales and Supply Chain organisations.

• Lead in drafting contract templates and provide legal guidance to colleagues for our different business requirements.

• Keep informed of existing agreements, approved risk mitigation plans, ongoing negotiations, win/loss reasons and use such information to develop and improve contract reviews, risk mitigation actions, negotiation strategies, approval recommendations, leading to informed decision making and acceptable risk taking by the business.

• Prepare contract risk assessments for internal stakeholder’s approval based on Eaton’s policies and procedures

• Train Eaton’s Sales and Supply Chain professionals on defined contractual concepts and contract management processes.

Qualifications:

• Legal Degree is required/Qualified lawyer is an advantage

• At least 6 years’ legal experience in contract drafting and negotiation (in a law-firm and/or in-house)

Skills:

• Good knowledge of general Commercial Law.

• Experienced negotiator and comfortable in negotiations.

• Fluent in English.

What we offer:

• Benefits packages

• Challenging projects in dynamic collaborative team

• Flexible working solutions (home office twice per week.) are implemented across different EMEA locations, check out with the site HR what type of flexible working solution is available for this role.

• We make your aspirations matter – Eaton encourages internal promotion, whenever possible and we make your growth matter - We invest in our employees for the long term – not just with salary and benefits, but with ongoing learning and development opportunities made available through Eaton University

• We make your contributions matter - reliability, safety, efficiency, and sustainability are at the core of our dedication to improving people’s lives and the environment through power management technologies.

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