Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization: 

 
Ensure the legal interests of adidas AG in individual and collective employment-law.   

Key Responsibilities: 

• Provide clear, business-minded, legal advice to HR, business-, function-, and project stakeholders in all individual and collective employment-law related matters  

• Draft and review employment contract template/clauses and company agreements 

• Implementation and improvement of standards and processes incl. template management 

• Deliver expert opinions, identify best-practices and support implementation concepts 

• Handle litigation cases and manage external counsel support 

• Conduct internal employment law trainings 

• Active support and close cooperation with other global legal team members 

Key Relationships:  

• Interacts and works with HR and Legal community  

• Interacts with external legal counsels 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: 

• Business oriented mind-set with the ability to balance legal requirements against business needs 

• Demonstrated problem solving capabilities and comfortable working in an environment, which demands high quality deliverables 

• Ability to work well independently and on own initiative, maintaining customer-centricity while setting/shifting priorities   

• Team player with strong interpersonal skills and can-do mentality 

• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail 

• Discrete, empathic and trustworthy personality 

• Excellent written and oral communication skills 

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:  

• Fully qualified lawyer (final grade of "fully satisfactory")  

• Ideally, certified employment-law specialist (Fachanwalt  in/für Arbeitsrecht) 

• 2-3 years of relevant professional experience, preferably in an international company or in an international law firm 

• Business-fluent English and German, both written and spoken 

• Good MS-Office 365 skills