D-ploy is a dynamic IT and Engineering Solutions company operating across the EMEA region, including Switzerland, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, the UK, and the USA. We are committed to delivering reliable and efficient services to our clients through strong partnerships and a people-focused culture.
We are looking for an experienced Interim Legal & Contracts Lead to support our legal and contracts function during a period of transition, while we continue building our long-term legal structure.
This is a hands-on role for a senior, commercially minded legal professional who can quickly understand the business, support ongoing legal matters, and provide clear, practical advice to internal stakeholders. You will work closely with the business, help keep contracts and legal topics moving, and coordinate with external counsel where specialist support is needed.
The ideal person is pragmatic, structured, confident working independently, and comfortable balancing legal risk with business priorities in an international environment.
What you will support
Commercial and contract law: drafting, reviewing, and negotiating client and supplier contracts, framework agreements, NDAs, statements of work, and related commercial documentation.
Employment and labour law: supporting cross-border employment matters across multiple jurisdictions, including employment contracts, terminations, restructuring topics, and compliance-related questions.
Liability and insurance topics: advising on liability exposure and supporting insurance-related legal matters where needed.
Finance-related legal matters: providing legal input on business questions connected to finance, corporate structure, and commercial operations.
External counsel coordination: working with outside counsel on specialist or complex matters and helping ensure advice is practical, clear, and proportionate.
Risk and business support: identifying relevant legal risks while helping the business move forward with practical and commercially balanced solutions.
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer with significant post-qualification experience in a commercial, in-house, or consultancy environment.
- Strong experience across commercial contracts and employment/labour law, ideally in an international or multi-jurisdictional setting.
- Comfortable acting as a senior legal point of contact and advising business stakeholders independently.
- Pragmatic, solutions-oriented, and able to provide clear legal guidance under time pressure.
- Available at short notice and comfortable working on an interim contract basis.
- Fluent English required; German or another European language would be a strong advantage.
- Valid criminal record extract (not older than 3 months) required.
Benefits
- Broad range of activities, tasks, and projects
- Flexible working conditions
- Paid sick days
- Vouchers (B-day voucher, wedding, and new born surprise)
- Contributions to wellness programs (multisport card)
- Fishing for Friends program – our referral program
- Further development and professional advancement
- Friendly and international working environment
- Company-sponsored events
- Competitive salary and various benefits
Is IT in your DNA?
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D-ploy is an IT Engineering and Consulting Company with a wide portfolio of services and solutions suitable for globally as well as regionally operating companies. Our strength is in providing proven standard and individually tailored solutions helping our customers achieve their strategic and business goals. Our core competencies are operational IT Infrastructure services and consulting in the areas of Service Management, Program and Project Management as well as Quality Management. Company Profile Founded in January 2003 in Kaiseraugst, Switzerland, D-ploy has been growing steadily by expanding its expertise, portfolio and geographical presence across Europe and in the US. Our main focus has always been on ensuring that IT enables the Business, supports value generation and contributes to the overall work efficiency. With the customer-centric attitude and pragmatic approach to IT, we became a trusted and preferred IT partner to many customers proving again and again, that we can do IT. Building our expertise and establishing long-term partnerships with our customers, we understand the value of sustainable practices driven by compliance with industry standards and implementing best practices. Therefore, since 2016 D-ploy has been ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 20000-1 and as of 2017 ISO/IEC 27001 certified. We strive to continuously offer the most suitable and innovative service solutions to our current and future customers by staying agile, understanding the industry needs and keeping up to date on the market trends.
Key team members
Bob de Boers
Andrej Kavcic
Ondrej Litov
Architect (M365/Integration/DB) & Service Delivery Manager (Collaboration/App/Migrations) at D-ploy (Czech Republic) s.r.o.
Lukas Petro
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