Inhouse Counsel - Contracts

Be a part of The New Equation.

Your Team

You will join our dynamic and diverse inhouse legal team, which offers comprehensive legal support and guidance to our company in various areas of law and business. You will collaborate with other legal counsels (both internal and external), business units, and functions to provide legal support and guidance on various national and international service contracts and projects, ensuring that our contracts and agreements align with our strategic goals and comply with applicable laws and regulations.

Zurich

By agreement

100%

Internal Firm Services

ID: 592031WD

Your Impact

Draft, review, and negotiate various types of contracts and agreements, such as client and supplier contracts as well as cooperation, subcontractor, and confidentiality agreements, ensuring that they reflect our firm's interests and objectives, and comply with applicable laws, regulations, and policies.
Negotiate deals independently across different industries and types of service offering, both nationally and internationally.
Identify, analyze, and mitigate potential legal risks and liabilities arising from contracts and projects, and propose solutions and give recommendations.
Work to manage issues across various transactions and architect workable/operationally feasible solutions together with the negotiation team and other internal functions.
Keep abreast of relevant legal developments and trends, and provide updates and insights to the inhouse legal team and the management.

Your Skill Set

Master of Laws from a Swiss university, admission to the bar is an advantage.
At least 3+ years of post-qualifying experience.
Excellent knowledge of contract law and best practices, with attention to detail and accuracy, as well as familiarity with relevant market practice, industry standards and regulations.
Strong drafting, negotiation, and communication skills, with a proven ability to lead contract negotiations and to deal directly with counterparty's senior legal counsel and negotiating teams.
Ability to work independently and collaboratively, manage multiple projects and deadlines, and adapt to changing priorities and business needs.
Very good written and spoken German and English (full professional proficiency in both languages a must), French is an advantage.

Your Benefits

Hybrid Flexible Working Model Our work model enables you to spend part of your time working in the office and part at home (provided this is your preference) – unless you’re at your clients’ premises, which is of course always the priority. This approach allows you to tailor your schedule to your personal working style.

Learn and Grow Our learning and development approach helps you gain valuable skills and knowledge to advance your career, not just at PwC. We offer a variety of internal and external courses for training and upskilling. Identify your strengths and areas for improvement and gain new skills to achieve your professional goals. You’ll build confidence, enhance your job performance, and take your career to the next level.

Sustainable Performance PwC is committed to creating an environment of sustainable performance. We therefore offer a range of resources such as sustainable performance workshops, self-leadership trainings, resilience and mindfulness sessions, nutrition webinars, and yoga courses.

Vacation and Leave From maternity, paternity, and adoption leave to vacation and paid leave, we know it’s essential to take time away from work. At PwC, you can enjoy a variety of leave options to recharge, relax, or achieve personal milestones.

Volunteering Are you passionate about doing good and making a difference? That’s great, because so are we at PwC. We encourage you to participate in volunteer work by offering paid time off for volunteering activities. Our Corporate Sustainability programmes help you find purpose and fulfilment while working with us.

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Your Contact

Patricia Schmitz

Recruitment Team

Any questions? We are happy to help.

Tel. +41 58 792 13 64

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Your Contact

Patricia Schmitz
Recruitment Team
+41 58 792 13 64

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Be a part of The New Equation PwC Switzerland is the leading audit and advisory company in Switzerland. As an independent member of the international PwC network, we help organisations and individuals to deliver solutions and sustained outcomes in the areas of assurance, advisory and tax services.

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