Qualified Lawyer / Business Lawyer – Contract & Claim Manager

🕒 January 20

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PLATH Corporation GmbH

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11 - 50 employees

🔐 Security

🏛️ Government

Security • Government

PLATH Corporation GmbH is a Hamburg-based group founded in 1954 that develops and supplies innovative technologies and systems for state security and defense organizations, focusing on data-driven crisis early warning, signals intelligence and risk detection. The company supports governmental actors with hardware and software solutions to detect and prevent conflicts, and it invests in specialized portfolio companies to drive innovation and growth, with more than 350 installed systems across 40+ countries.

📋 Description

• You will take independent responsibility for providing legal advice on contractual matters and for developing negotiation strategies for the business units and areas of the Business Division PLATH Systems & Integration in all relevant project (and acquisition) phases. • Drafting, reviewing, structuring and negotiating contracts under civil and public law. • Coordinating and handling contract arrangements with customers, suppliers and other contracting parties. • Coordinating the legal team during contract negotiation phases and serving as a member of the negotiation team. • Early analysis and assessment of tenders and awards for legal risks and corresponding mitigation measures. • Enforcing contractual rights in key projects. • Developing policy rules and directives for the conclusion of contracts. • Actively ensuring division-internal approval processes. • Responsible for all contractual aspects of change order/claims management and for developing project- and supplier-specific claim strategies. • Coordinating the timely preparation of claims as requested by the relevant technical departments. • Determining claims, positioning them vis-à-vis customers and suppliers, and negotiating them. • Identifying contractual risks and clearly defining assumptions, boundary conditions and delimitations.

🎯 Requirements

• Degree in Business Law or a Law degree. • Professional experience in a commercial enterprise or in a law firm focused on business law with an emphasis on contract law, ideally with international experience. • Extensive negotiation experience with international B2B and B2G stakeholders. • Experience with international law in the defense and security sector is desirable. • Strong team orientation, openness and excellent communication skills. • Informal leadership experience of interdisciplinary teams, particularly in the substantive coordination and training of negotiation teams. • High willingness to travel nationally and internationally. • Independent, pragmatic and goal-oriented working style. • Business-fluent English and very good IT skills (MS Office); French skills are an advantage.

🏖️ Benefits

• Central location • Flexible working hours • 30 days annual leave • Job ticket & fuel vouchers • Campus@ PLATH • Sabbatical • Various company events • Health and wellness programs • Corporate benefits • Company pension plan • Mobile working (remote work) • Career development