What do we offer?
- Hybrid working
- Wellbeing initiatives
- Cross brand career options
What do you bring?
- Passion for your expertise
- High focus on quality
- Business awareness
Why European Business Services?
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how you can make a difference
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As Legal Manager Operations & Innovation, you’ll be at the heart of the AD legal community. With your creativity and vision, you will support, drive and enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the legal function. You will be supporting strategic initiatives and improving processes, tools, and ways of working.
About Ahold Delhaize
We’re Ahold Delhaize, one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together with our 17 strong local retail brands in the United States, Europe and Indonesia, we make a meaningful difference in the lives of our brands’ customers, our people and the world around us. We offer a highly dynamic, international work environment in which our associates thrive.
Your new work environment
As Legal Manager Operations & Innovation, you will join the Ahold Delhaize legal community. Key areas of work in this community are covered by dedicated teams, each with their own expertise. For European part, this concerns the legal teams for Technology; Data Privacy; Commerce, as well as the team Projects & M&A and Legal Operations, of which you will be a member.
In your role you will be cooperating closely with, and support, all those legal teams. Also, you will work closely with other teams within AD, both locally and globally, including at Group level with the legal team for Corporate Affairs (including Company Secretariat) as well as the teams Public Affairs and Compliance & Ethics, as may be required from time to time.
Joining the team means you’ll work with a group of energetic, open-minded and highly qualified colleagues. You will drive, together with the Director Legal Strategy, M&A and Operations (Chief of Staff), the development and implementation of the legal department’s strategic roadmap.
You will have the freedom to create, and to produce tangible results. You’ll collaborate closely with the team, including the Specialists Legal Operations & Innovation, and with stakeholders across the organization to improve efficiency, optimize workflows, and support key legal operations projects.
Key responsibilities of your role
You are critical to help shape and further innovate legal function. Your role is highly diverse and encompasses various responsibilities. In this diverse and impactful role, you will play a key part in shaping and advancing the Legal Operations function. Working closely with the Director Legal Strategy, M&A and Operations, you improve efficiency, collaboration, and overall performance.
Your key responsibilities include:
- You will help define and implement the Legal Operations strategy and long-term roadmap, ensuring continuous progress on strategic priorities.
- You will oversee the legal department’s budgets and external legal spend, while also strengthening partnerships with external legal service providers.
- You will drive knowledge sharing and improve information governance
- Leveraging technology is central to this role.
- You will also support broader organizational initiatives, with a focus on team development and operational excellence.
What’s in it for you?
Aside from what we ask of you in this role, we also have a great deal to offer you: plenty of growth opportunities and various cross-brand career options; flexible working hours; hybrid working – we encourage you to spend at least 3 days a week, on average, at the office (based on a 40-hour work week); and the chance to drive meaningful change on a global scale. You can look forward to a good work-life balance, and the chance to work in an inclusive environment that wholeheartedly encourages growth and welcomes you just the way you are.
Plus:
- Hay 17
- Attractive bonuses
- A first-rate pension plan
- 20 vacation days and the option to buy an additional 12,5 days from your personal ‘flex budget’)
- Travel expenses or an NS travel card
- A laptop and smartphone
Requirements
We think you’ll be best geared for success if you meet the following requirements:
- At least 6 years of experience in legal practice
- Master of Law preferred (LLM in Legal Management is a plus)
- Based in the Netherlands
Soft skills we value:
- Strong organizational and project management abilities
- Proactive mindset and solution-oriented approach
- Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management
- A keen eye for process optimization and innovation
- Connector with hands-on attitude
Apply now!
Are you ready to join the Legal Strategy, M&A and Operations team? Even if you don’t tick all the boxes but feel you’re a strong fit, we encourage you to apply. Use the button on this page to submit your application or contact Jamie Plug via jamie.plug@aholddelhaize.com if you have questions.
At Ahold Delhaize we broadly define diversity as being inclusive of thoughts and skills, generational differences, LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disabilities, nationalities and more, and we accept all people for who they are.
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What matters to us?
Ahold Delhaize is one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together, we help people eat well, save time and live better – it’s how we make a difference. And we do it because we care: for our customers, our people and the world around us.
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