Legal Counsel

Job Description

About the Role

As a Legal Counsel, your main focus will be to take an active part in the decision-making related to regulatory, commercial and legal matters and is responsible for enabling, guiding and protecting the H&M Group and thereby delivering value to the H&M Group.

This involves guiding in the regulatory landscape, negotiating, writing and reviewing various agreements and giving legal advice.

A Legal Counsel is responsible for understanding global legal requirements and standards and supporting the Group to achieve these wherever possible. Further, a Legal Counsel is responsible for assisting with training in relevant legal areas.  

This hybrid role reports into our Controlling Manager and is based out of our México City Support Office.

A Day in the Life

Working at H&M means no two days are ever the same, but a typical day will include the following responsibilities:

• You set and enforce legal standards, templates and strategies.
• You negotiate, draft and review various agreements, including lease agreements.  
• You conduct judicial enquiries and due diligence and identify and analyze any risks and consequences associated hereto.  
• You stay up to date and understand global legal requirements and standards and support your market to achieve these.  
• You support with tendering processes etc.  
• You constantly improve our contracts so that we are safeguarded in the best possible way.  
• You handle and settle disputes.  
• You set and implement routines and the way of working for execution, handling and administration of contracts and ensure it is done in the correct way.  
• Assist Sales Market Controllers/Account Manager in corporate matters incl. drafting corporate documentation and governance policies/guidelines  
• Meet legal objectives – ensuring regulatory compliance whilst securing business aims. 

Qualifications

Who You Are:  

• A degree in Legal  
• 3-5 years of legal experience, ideally with experience in leasing or real estate (meriting but not required)  
• The ability to lead and coach a team, to manage and inspire team members  
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and oral.  Comfortable to confidently present to senior stakeholders, both internally and externally  
• Understanding of risk assessment and ability to articulate associated consequences to decision makers  
• Comfortable with decision-making, even in ambiguous circumstances and tight timelines. 
• Advanced proficiency in both English and Spanish.

Additional Information

Why You’ll Love Working at H&M 

• We value diverse backgrounds, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, and disability
• We pride ourselves on being a values-driven organization, guided by our 7 unique values that have been part of our success story for over 75 years
• You’ll have access to our Colleague Resource Groups (CRGs) to find community and networking opportunities among colleagues
• You’ll be able to express your personal style with our employee discount at H&M, & Other Stories, and COS.