Legal Specialist

Company Description

lastminute.com is the European Travel Tech leader in Dynamic Holiday Packages. It operates a portfolio of well-known brands such as lastminute.com, Volagratis, Rumbo, weg.de, Bravofly, Jetcost and Hotelscan.

Our mission is to lead the travel industry by leveraging technology to simplify, personalise, and enhance our customers’ travel experience. Experts in brightening up online travel, we help our customers find and do "whatever makes them pink".

We continuously invest in talented people who ensure our offering is closer to the needs of the customers and keep us at the cutting edge of technology evolution. More than 1,700 employees spread across our offices worldwide develop our own products and services to power the entire traveller journey for millions of people.

At the heart of our culture is a commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, gender identity or expression and accessibility. We strongly believe in an equal opportunity space, which is welcoming and celebrates the uniqueness of everyone who works here. We value different lived experiences and respect viewpoints, as we know unicity drives innovation. We want to make sure our people reflect the communities across the world we help travel.

lastminute.com N.V. is a publicly-traded company listed under the ticker symbol LMN on the SIX Swiss Exchange.

Job Description

We are looking for a Legal Specialist with a Tech passion.

Admission to the National Bar Association is a plus.

Main Responsibilities:

• Advising on the legal requirements and framework for offering and selling online travel-related products.
• Support in drafting and reviewing international contracts, such as but not limited to distribution and sales agreements, agency agreements, service agreements, lease agreements, non-disclosure agreements, sponsorship agreements etc
• Deploying the company processes involving Competition Law, Consumer Law and Tourism Law analysis.
• Support in managing litigation across several jurisdictions.
• Coordinate of external lawyers
• Creating and deliver guidance documents and training material for teams within the business under the direction of the Litigation Counsel.
• Support with the creation and implementation of efficient and scalable ways of working to enable sustainable business growth.

Qualifications

Skills and Experiences:

• Degree in Law
• Strong communications and relationships skills; teamwork-oriented
• Proactive, motivated, flexible and with a positive attitude
• Ability to work in a precise, pragmatic, and hands-on manner; demonstrating problem-solving attitude
• Perfect knowledge of English and Italian language mandatory - full proficiency. German/French/Spanish is a plus.
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Outstanding attention to detail.
• Demonstrated excellence in organizational and project management, consistently meeting deadlines and effectively prioritising tasks.
• Proficient drafting skills.
• Confidence in providing support to both legal teams and business units.
• Capability to showcase commercial awareness and a deep understanding of business requirements.
• Professional and collaborative approach to work.
• Proficiency in using Microsoft Office applications (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and Google Suite (Google Sheets, Google Docs), maintaining a consistently high standard of knowledge and application.

Additional Information

By joining our company, you will have the chance to:

• Join a dynamic team in an inclusive-international environment
• Grow thanks to the career journey and our internal mobility perspective
• Manage your own schedule thanks to the flexible start and end of the working day
• Work a shorter working week (36h), of which 4 hours on Friday morning
• Get focus time for learning, development and deep work on Friday mornings
• Work partially or fully remote according to local laws
• Enjoy continuous training thanks to our company platform
• Benefit from employee discounts on travel
• Receive 2 days off per year for the purpose of volunteering
• Welfare platform (Corporate Benefits) where you will find dedicated discounts with more than 1500 partners