Senior Legal Counsel

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Senior Legal Counsel
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Allianz Partners
What You Do
The Senior Legal Counsel will report to the Head of Health Legal and the Legal Manager (Contracts / Products), playing a pivotal role in delivering comprehensive legal support across various business functions.
This position is essential for ensuring compliance with local laws and regulations and aligning legal strategies with the organization's strategic objectives.
The role requires strong communication skills and a proactive, solution-oriented approach to deal with legal matters and requires a very robust understanding of the business models pursued by the LoB Health.
Legal Advisory: Provide expert legal guidance on local contractual matters affecting Sales, Underwriting, Procurement, and Operations, supporting internal stakeholders in negotiations.
Navigate complex corporate legal issues and daily business activities specific to the jurisdiction.
Contract Drafting and Negotiation: Lead the drafting, reviewing, and negotiating of Business or Corporate contracts including but not limited to distribution, outsourcing, Business Partners contracts, reinsurance and retrocession agreements, ensuring compliance with local legislation and alignment with global business strategies.
Audit Support: Collaborate effectively with teams to ensure prompt and thorough responses to audit findings, focusing on legal implications and compliance with regulatory standards.
Legal Tools and Databases: Develop and maintain legal tools and databases, ensuring they reflect current legal practices and standards relevant to the BU/SubRegion.
Group Insurance Management Program: Support the implementation of the Group Insurance Management Program, ensuring that all legal aspects are properly addressed and compliant with local requirements.
Antitrust Program Implementation: Work with the Antitrust Program Coordinator to ensure effective local implementation of the Anti-Trust Program, maintaining compliance with applicable laws.
Support for Legal Head: Provide comprehensive assistance to the Legal Head of BU/SubRegion on various legal matters, contributing to strategic development, risk assessment, and regulatory compliance efforts.
What You Do
The Senior Legal Counsel will report to the Head of Health Legal and the Legal Manager (Contracts / Products), playing a pivotal role in delivering comprehensive legal support across various business functions.
This position is essential for ensuring compliance with local laws and regulations and aligning legal strategies with the organization's strategic objectives.
The role requires strong communication skills and a proactive, solution-oriented approach to deal with legal matters and requires a very robust understanding of the business models pursued by the LoB Health.
Legal Advisory: Provide expert legal guidance on local contractual matters affecting Sales, Underwriting, Procurement, and Operations, supporting internal stakeholders in negotiations.
Navigate complex corporate legal issues and daily business activities specific to the jurisdiction.
Contract Drafting and Negotiation: Lead the drafting, reviewing, and negotiating of Business or Corporate contracts including but not limited to distribution, outsourcing, Business Partners contracts, reinsurance and retrocession agreements, ensuring compliance with local legislation and alignment with global business strategies.
Audit Support: Collaborate effectively with teams to ensure prompt and thorough responses to audit findings, focusing on legal implications and compliance with regulatory standards.
Legal Tools and Databases: Develop and maintain legal tools and databases, ensuring they reflect current legal practices and standards relevant to the BU/SubRegion.
Group Insurance Management Program: Support the implementation of the Group Insurance Management Program, ensuring that all legal aspects are properly addressed and compliant with local requirements.
Antitrust Program Implementation: Work with the Antitrust Program Coordinator to ensure effective local implementation of the Anti-Trust Program, maintaining compliance with applicable laws.
Support for Legal Head: Provide comprehensive assistance to the Legal Head of BU/SubRegion on various legal matters, contributing to strategic development, risk assessment, and regulatory compliance efforts.
What You Bring
A relevant law degree and a valid EU legal qualification are required, ensuring a strong foundation in legal principles.
A minimum of 7 years of experience as a qualified lawyer, either in a law firm or in-house, with a focus on complex legal issues relevant to the insurance industry.
Solid knowledge in diverse legal fields, including insurance contract law, corporate law, supervisory law, and litigation processes.
Structured and analytical mindset to tackle complex problems while remaining adaptable to changing business environments.
Resilience under Pressure.
Foster strong collaboration across departments, effectively engaging with colleagues to achieve shared goals.
Deliver clear, professional legal advice in both written and oral formats, particularly in contractual matters, distribution, and marketing.
Understand the intersection of legal requirements and business objectives, actively supporting Allianz Partners in achieving strategic goals.
Fluent business english and local language; proficiency in additional languages, is advantageous.
Expertise in Data Collection techniques to gather and analyze relevant data for business insights.
Address and mitigate security threats through effective Incident Response and management of Information Security Frameworks.
What We Offer
Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business.
We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey.
We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs.
All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged.
Caring for your health and wellbeing is key priority for us.
This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance.
74730 | Legal & Compliance | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Partners | Full-Time | Permanent
Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world.
Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer.
Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.
We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.
Join us.
Let's care for tomorrow.
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