Legal Expert Functional Steering & Global Projects Retail

Legal Expert Functional Steering & Global Projects

Location: Cedar Amsterdam

Salary: GJA 19 / Function scale 13

Job type: full time

The opportunity

Ongoing developments and intensifications in internal and external (legal and regulatory) requirements require Legal Department Bank to step-up its global potential in business support provided by Legal. To ensure that the Legal department fully optimizes its expertise and global potential, it is embarking on a transformation journey.

The ambition of the Legal Department Bank is to contribute to the long term success of the ING business. To ensure a safe and secure bank, Legal steers on pro-active and sustainable legal advice, aiming at mitigating future risks. The Legal function needs strong business alignment and efficient reporting lines to be promptly and adequately informed about issues, such as material incidents and relevant developments and thus able to think and act ahead.

To support these goals, Legal Department Bank has decided to further strengthen the functional steering and organise the Legal function in a different way.

Therefore we created two new expert supporting roles; Legal Expert Functional steering and Global Projects , one for Legal WB and one for Legal Retail . For Legal Retail the Expert will be the wing(wo)man for the new Global Legal Head Retail, in which (s)he:

• Supports the restructured functional steering via business lines with combined product and functional steering;
• Promotes cross-team optimisation and collaboration (incl. addressing common pain points and sharing best practises and improvements);
• Enables global scalability and idea implementation; and
• Assesses the realised impact thereof.

Roles and responsibilities

The Legal Expert Functional Steering and Global Projects:

• Facilitates and coordinates functional steering, in close consultation with the Global Head Retail Legal;

• Steers and/or monitors Retail Legal related initiatives:
  • Functional steering and monitoring of the Legal functions in the Retail-only countries
  • Legal product support and legal policy steering for Retail in other locations
• Supports standardisation and optimisation of functional steering;
• Assess and classify risks and development based on legal expertise;
• Ensures adequate (incident) reporting;
• Drives, supports and/or monitors (global) legal initiatives and projects strengthening the Legal operational effectiveness, including Legal Tech, legal product and process development and implementation;
• Ensures adequate and timely reporting to the Global Head on the progress of these initiatives;
• Reports Management Information, such as FTEs and budget.

Resulting in:

• the Global Head Retail Legal and legal department being enabled to pro-actively advise the business and mitigate legal risks.

Role complexity:

(S)he operates in the Legal Retail community, supporting the functional steering with a broad variation of products, each having local Legal and regulatory landscape and practices.

Skills and experience needed for the role

• Law degree with post graduate specialization in law required
• Expert with demonstrable legal knowledge of and experience in legal support of Retail business and with Retail products
• Sophisticated and mature relationship style and able to 'connect the dots' and challenge on a senior level
• Organisational sensitivity and able to empathise with local circumstances
• Resilient
• Sound judgment
• Pro-active, convincing, firm character who can challenge peers and (senior) management
• Tactical thinker with a risk-based mindset
• An analytic self-starter with a strong execution drive, stress-resistant and flexible
• Excellent organisation (e.g. planning, reporting, quality checks, events) and project/consultancy skills and experienced with MS applications.
• Fluent in English
• A collaborative mindset

Rewards & benefits

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions at https://www.ing.jobs/netherlands/Why-ING/benefits.htm

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience

• 24-27 vacation days depending on contract

• Pension scheme

• 13th month salary

• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary

• 8% Holiday payment

• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities

• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

• Work Agile, so new ideas come to life faster

Questions?

Contact Sander Dirks in our recruitment team via sander.dirks@ing.comfor more information about this role. Want to apply directly? Please upload your CV and motivation letter by clicking the “Apply” button.

About us

With 57,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us. Apply today.

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