Legal Counsel

The role of our legal team is to provide relevant, rapid and innovative legal solutions to the various stakeholders and adopting an operational prism. As a legal counsel your mission is to listen and provide pragmatic advice, while respecting Europ Assistance’s culture and values.

Responsibilities :

- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating of a broad range of agreements for Europ Assistance business lines

- Providing strategic and pragmatic employment law advice on a wide variety of issues to key internal stakeholders

- Drafting of intragroup agreements for management fees and all intragroup recharges

- Advising global procurement team on various legal issues

- Working closely with IT, security and finance teams, among others

- Working in coordination with the data privacy and compliance teams

- Delivering training sessions to legal community team and other functions and business areas throughout Europ Assistance Group

Strengths of the role

- Working in dynamic international and fast-paced environment

- Working on a wide range of interesting legal topics

- Interdisciplinary interaction and collaboration with various teams

Challenges of the role

-Aligning the business goals of the company with legal and regulatory constraints

-Ability to successfully manage a diverse and complex workload while maintaining priorities and proactively anticipating issues

- 5 years of experience acquired in the legal department of an international company or international law firm

- Master’s degree in law (Licensed to practice as a lawyer)

- Strong substantive knowledge of contract law and labour law

- Ability to work, communicate, negotiate, and draft contracts in English and French

- Excellent organizational skills, capacity of working with different fields of law, autonomous, self-starter, rigorous and results-oriented

- Ability to work collaboratively and independently within a multinational organization

1/ HR

2/ N+1

3/ Optional : technical test, N+2, culture fit

• Contract Type: Full-Time
• Location: Saint-Denis
• Education Level: Master's Degree
• Experience: > 5 years
• 50% remote

With more than 300 million customers around the world and 12,000 employees in 36 countries, Europ Assistance is the 2nd global player of assistance services in 3 areas: travel, mobility, and personal care. Founded in 1963, Europ Assistance, the inventor of assistance, supports customers in over 200 countries and territories thanks to our network of 750.000 approved providers.

Our mission is to bring people from distress to relief – anytime, anywhere. We provide automobile assistance, travel assistance and insurance services, as well as personal assistance services such as the protection of the elderly, the protection of digital identity, telemedicine and the Conciergerie. The company vision, shared by our 12,000 employees, is to prove every day that we are the most reliable care company in the world, and to make our people proud of who we are, what we do, and, how we do it.

Europ Assistance is part of the Generali Group, one of the world’s leading insurers. It is with the support and commitment of Generali, its shareholder, that the Europ Assistance Group has become the world leader in its sector. As long-standing partners, the two entities are jointly committed to future-oriented projects.

Our promise and tagline, "You Live, We Care" is what we stand for every day. We are a care business, delivered by people. "We care" means that we are caring, available, reliable and easy to work with. Our employees bring those values to life.

As a leader in the assistance industry, we are looking for a passionate, committed, and self-driven talent to help us shape the future of the industry.

Europ Assistance is committed to inclusion and non-discrimination. We act in favor of disability, social diversity and equality. Above all, we recruit skills and personalities, and diversity within our teams is key because it is a source of innovation and performance.

Make an impact, join Europ Assistance!