For a Data Management Company in Ghent, we are looking for a Solo Legal Manager with experience in Business Law, fluent in Dutch & English
Our client helps companies make more data more deployable and thereby boost the data economy. They facilitate complex challenges in data technology, new data-driven ecosystems, and cross-sector innovation.
As Legal Manager, you are the strategic and operational compass for Legal & Compliance within the company. You combine proven experience as an in-house lawyer with a strong sense of ownership: you further build out the legal framework, steer priorities and risks, and ensure that cooperation with internal stakeholders and external partners remains legally robust and workable.
You act as a sparring partner to management, safeguard the legal quality of decisions, and translate legislation and regulations into clear policies, processes, and concrete actions.
Responsibilities
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Strategic legal advice & management support
- Advise executive/management team
- Act as legal sparring partner on complex files and projects
- Proactively assess legal implications of new initiatives
- Contribute public law expertise; initiate and realize decree-level amendments where relevant
- Develop and monitor legal roadmap
- Act as Secretary to the Board of Directors
Ownership of Legal & Compliance governance
- Take end responsibility for the Legal & Compliance framework
- Organize workable governance with stakeholders: decision-making, escalation paths, compliance safeguards
- Monitor legislative changes
Contract management & negotiations
- Lead and support contract negotiations with suppliers and partners
- Develop standards and playbooks
- Safeguard consistency in contract quality, risk acceptance, decision levels and exception management
Public law & government context
- Contribute public law expertise; initiate and realize decree-level amendments where relevant
- Advise on files with a public/government context
External counsel & disputes
- Manage cooperation with external lawyers and legal partners
- Coordinate disputes and escalations; safeguard legal strategy, case build-up and internal communication
Legal enablement: knowledge, training & process improvement
- Build and maintain legal knowledge base
- Deliver pragmatic awareness sessions and short trainings for stakeholders
- Professionalize legal operations
Must Have
- Master's degree in Law
7+ years of experience as an in-house lawyer, with a strong contract practice & stakeholder management
- Fluent in Dutch & English
- Legal sharpness combined with pragmatism: you make complex matters decidable and workable
- Ability to take autonomous ownership and prioritize, while collaborating in a broad stakeholder environment
Nice to have
- Affinity with data/IT/security or regulatory domains in digital environments
- Experience in or with a government context (public sector, agencies, intergovernmental cooperation)
- Experience with or affinity for public procurement /framework agreements and helping embed processes and risks organization-wide (procedure choice, award criteria, documentation, follow-up, disputes)
- French knowledge
What's great in the job?
✅ Innovative team where digital transformation and business acceleration are central
✅ Management team member, Board exposure, and a proactive & strategic role
✅ Hybrid working, with at least two days per week in the Ghent office
✅ Open-ended contract and a competitive salary package consisting of:
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An attractive gross salary supplemented by an individual and collective bonus system
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Mobility budget and a flat-rate expense allowance
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Meal vouchers & eco vouchers
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Extensive group & hospitalization insurance (family members can be included)
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Laptop and smartphone with subscription
✅ Healthy work-life balance: a 40-hour work week, 32 days of leave, and 10 public holidays
Belgian
Data Management Company
Ghent
Belgian scope
80 People
Reporting to CEO
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