Legal Counsel, EMEA

• Lead and manage sales- and procurement-related legal matters across Amcor Rigids EMEA
• Serve as the key legal partner to sales and procurement functions
• Support strategic projects, contract negotiations, regulatory advice, and dispute resolution
• Draft, review, negotiate, and administer complex sales and procurement agreements
• Manage long-term supply agreements, framework agreements, and strategic supplier partnerships
• Develop and improve handbooks, forms, training materials, and processes
• Draft and deliver commercial-law training to sales and procurement teams
• Lead or support litigation and pre-litigation strategy and negotiate settlements
• Supervise or coordinate outside counsel
• Provide broader counsel on commercial contracting, compliance, dispute resolution, and special projects
• Support commercial and compliance-related disputes through mediation, arbitration, or litigation
• Support M&A execution, due diligence, and integration activities
• Identify legal risks and partner with Compliance on regulatory adherence and ethics governance
• Improve legal processes, templates, tools, and operational systems
• Report to the business group General Counsel and coordinate with the wider Legal team

• Law degree with qualification to practice law in a country of the European Economic Area, preferably the UK, Germany, France, or Italy
• Minimum of 5 years of post-qualification experience in legal practice focused on commercial law
• Deep expertise in drafting and negotiating high-value sales and procurement agreements
• Expertise in risk allocation, service levels, and long-term strategic sourcing
• Proven capability in claim handling and litigation management
• Track record resolving customer and supplier disputes through negotiation and formal legal proceedings or arbitration
• Rigorous training within an international law firm/private practice
• In-house experience within a large organization as a direct partner to business stakeholders
• Prior manufacturing or complex B2B experience highly advantageous
• Understanding of global supply chains, global sourcing, and industrial services legal challenges
• Experience in an international or multi-jurisdictional framework
• Comfort navigating cross-border contracts, international trade regulations, and diverse legal systems
• Working knowledge of emerging sales and procurement regulations, including ESG compliance (CSDDD), CBAM, EUDR, GDPR, and modern trade sanctions is viewed favourably

• Full-time employee position
• Remote work arrangement
• Opportunity to join a global packaging company
• Training and development through legal handbooks, forms, processes, and commercial-law training
• Collaboration with international and cross-functional teams
• Exposure to strategic projects, M&A, due diligence, and integration activities