Legal Counsel

Location: Amsterdam

Team: Legal

Type: Full-time

Who We Are

At Hitachi Construction Machinery Europe (HCME), we design and manufacture one of the world’s most extensive ranges of hydraulic excavators—from compact one-tonne units to colossal 780-tonne mining machines. Our portfolio also includes wheel loaders, rigid dump trucks, and highly specialized equipment for unique applications.

But at HCME, we believe we build more than machines.

We build the future of construction.

As part of the global Hitachi family, we are driven by innovation, environmental responsibility, and a deep commitment to customer trust and satisfaction. Our Amsterdam headquarters is home to a diverse, forward-thinking team developing next-generation technologies and support services that empower customers across Europe and beyond.

Our Values

• Honesty & Sincerity – The foundation of every interaction.
• Environmental Respect – Protecting the world we help shape.
• Social Responsibility – Valuing people, culture, and community.
• Reliable Leadership – Agreed is agreed. We stand behind our commitments.

Your Mission

Review, assess and draft commercial contracts and agreements, while driving continuous improvement and digitalization of legal and compliance processes. Develop and maintain compliance policies and procedures, with a strong focus on export control, sanctions and international trade compliance. Provide practical legal advice, coordinate legal matters and leverage approved AI and legal technology solutions to improve operational efficiency, contract lifecycle management and risk mitigation across the organization.

What You’ll Be Doing

Legal activities

• Draft and review international and domestic commercial contracts and agreements
• Draft extension/ termination/ amendment letters to existing contracts/agreements
• Make templates of the contracts/ agreements in consultation with the Manager Legal
• Assist in company’s projects which are allocated to the Legal department
• Coordinate litigations with the help of external counsels
• Prepare legal documents for and coordinate the process of establishment/closure of HCME branches, subsidiaries
• Draft Powers of Attorney for the staff members and external stakeholders
• Advise on corporate matters
• Conduct legal due diligence assessments related to export control, sanctions and customs requirements.
• Conduct due diligence investigation of the third parties on pre-contractual phase
• Conduct legal research

Compliance

• Perform a role of the compliance officer in one or more areas of compliance (competition law, data privacy, export control, corporate governance, child labor, etc.)
• Draft and update compliance policies
• Advise to business within its compliance area of responsibility
• Conduct trainings of the staff members within own area of compliance Conduct due diligence investigation with respect to export control activities.
• Act as the subject matter expert for export control, sanctions and customs compliance matters

AI Adoption

• Leverage approved Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and digital technologies to improve operational efficiency, legal research, contract review, compliance monitoring and knowledge management.
• Evaluate and promote innovative solutions that enhance the effectiveness and quality of legal and compliance activities while ensuring compliance with applicable legal, ethical, privacy and cybersecurity requirements.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement and digitalization of legal and compliance processes.
• Collaborate with IT, Compliance and business stakeholders to ensure AI solutions are implemented in accordance with legal, privacy, cybersecurity and governance requirements.

Legal Operations Support

(in case of absence of the legal administrator or in order to relief the department from the workload)

• General administration support to Legal department
• Support to organize management, supervisory, shareholders and other corporate meetings
• Take the minutes of the company meetings on the management level
• Collect, file, register, maintain database of annual reports, minutes, resolutions, decisions of management and shareholders meetings of the company’s subsidiaries
• Keep, maintain up to date, register and file legal documents, minutes of the meetings, company resolutions, documents databases, shareholders’ register (e.g. Powers of Attorney database)
• Check invoices of Legal department
• Support to execute export control activities, collect and file relevant export control documents
• Support to prepare documents and files for annual SOX-related activities
• Maintain up-to-date relevant registrations of the company in the Trade Register, Cadaster and other governmental registers
• Support to legalize company documents
• Support the optimization and digitalization of legal administration processes, including document management, contract repositories and workflow automation.

Insurance matters

(in case of absence of the legal administrator or in order to relief the department from the workload)

• Liaise with insurance brokers and coordinate insurance claims
• Check and process insurance credit and debit notes

What You Bring

• Bachelor degree in relevant field
• 5+ years of experience in a similar position
• Experience/interest in AI
• Fluent in English

What We Offer

• Compensation built of a yearly gross salary between 55.000 euros and 88.000 euros (including holiday allowance and based on experience)
• 27 days of leave + 13 extra collective days of leave (ADV)
• ‘Metalektro’ Collective Labour Agreement (CLA)
• Excellent pension scheme with a high employer contribution
• Working from home possibility and flexible working hours
• Budget of 1500 euro’s to set up your workplace
• Collective accident insurance
• International learning and development program
• Career opportunities

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