Type of contract: Fulltime / permanent
Location: Germany – Munich, Marburg or Hattersheim
Are you passionate about commercial contracting and legal innovation? Do you enjoy working in an international environment where you can partner with diverse stakeholders, influence business decisions, and help shape the future of contracting?
We are looking for a Legal Counsel Enterprise Contracting EMEA to join our Enterprise Contracting Center. In this role, you will provide pragmatic legal advice, negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements, and drive contracting excellence across the EMEA region while supporting digital transformation, automation, and AI-enabled contracting solutions.
The Role:
- Draft, review, negotiate, and manage a variety of commercial agreements across the EMEA region, including (Master) Services Agreements, Healthcare Professional and Health Care Organization agreements, Patient agreements, Confidential Disclosure Agreements, and related contracts.
- Provide practical, risk-based legal advice that supports business objectives while ensuring compliance with applicable laws and company policies.
- Partner closely with internal stakeholders throughout the entire contract lifecycle.
- Develop and maintain standardized contract templates, playbooks, and contracting processes to improve efficiency and consistency across the organization.
- Deliver training and guidance to business partners on contracting topics and best practices.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, and legal innovation.
- Support the implementation of Contract Lifecycle Management tools and AI-enabled contracting solutions.
- Collaborate with legal colleagues and business partners across multiple countries and cultures throughout the EMEA region.
Your Skills and Experience:
- Qualified lawyer with the required legal qualifications to practice in an EMEA jurisdiction.
- Minimum of 3-5 years of post-qualification experience in a reputable law firm and/or international corporate environment.
- Strong experience in commercial contracting, contract drafting, and negotiations.
- Fluency in German and English. Additional EMEA language skills are an advantage.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to balance legal risk with commercial priorities and provide clear, actionable advice.
- Experience working across jurisdictions and in multicultural environments.
- Interest in legal technology, automation, AI, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Experience within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or life sciences industry.
- Exposure to legal operations, legal engineering, process optimization, or design thinking methodologies.
- Experience working with Contract Lifecycle Management systems and digital contracting solutions.
Reporting Relationships:
Reports to: Lead Counsel Enterprise Contracting EMEA
What We Offer
- The opportunity to work in a highly international and collaborative environment.
- Exposure to complex commercial and strategic legal matters across the EMEA region.
- The chance to drive innovation, automation, and AI-enabled legal solutions.
- A culture that encourages continuous learning, development, and career growth.
- Competitive compensation and benefits package.
- The opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to improving the lives of patients worldwide.
About CSL Behring
CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients’ needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.
CSL Behring operates one of the world’s largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.
To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.
Our Benefits
For more information on CSL benefits visit How CSL Supports Your Well-being | CSL.
You Belong at CSL
At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future.
To learn more about inclusion and belonging visit https://www.csl.com/careers/inclusion-and-belonging
Equal Opportunity Employer
CSL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit https://www.csl.com/accessibility-statement.
