Commercial Counsel
Are you ready to take your skills to the next level and make a real impact?
IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences. We deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.
Delivering streamlined, scalable support—enhancing efficiency, compliance and service excellence across the company.
As our team continues to grow, we’re looking for a Commercial Counsel who thrives in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment. You’ll be deeply involved in reviewing and negotiating a high volume of commercial contracts, advising business leaders on legal risks, and helping shape global initiatives. You’ll work closely with colleagues across Regulatory, Quality, Procurement, and Communications, and play a key role in ensuring our legal frameworks are fit-for-purpose.
The role is based in our Budapest GSS (hybrid model combining office & remote work). You’ll join a team of agile, customer-focused thinkers who collaboratively solve difficult business problems.
The role is based in Budapest (hybrid role). Be part of an agile team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.
Where You’ll Make a Difference
- Review, draft and negotiate a high volume of stand-alone commercial contracts
- Provide legal transactional support to various businesses, advising on legal considerations and risk mitigation strategies in connection with preparation and review of legal agreements
- Embedded member of a business team, participating in development of, and directly impacting strategic decisions for your business
- Direct strategic initiatives for your business through effective counselling on global commercial challenges facing food and pharma markets
- Ability to issue spot and collaborate with legal subject matter experts and other legal colleagues is critical
- Attend frequent calls with internal business clients and maintain strong working relationship with both internal clients and external counterparts.
- Engaging with cross-functional teams and matrix partners (e.g., Regulatory, Quality, Operations, Procurement, Communications) to drive agendas and effectively communicate complex information in clear and concise terms
- Partnering with the Corporate, Regulatory and Compliance to, among other things, provide guidance of regional corporate matters and ensure policies and standard operating procedures are fit-for purpose
- Managing outside counsel in limited circumstances
What Makes You the Right Fit
- Law degree from a reputable university in Europe
- Minimum 3 years of relevant legal experience - combination of top-tier law firm experience, and in-house commercial legal position in an international company preferred
- Fluency in English and at least one other European language
- Collaborative and able to adapt to multiple competing priorities
- Strong oral and written communication and interpersonal skills demonstrated through interactions with team, clients and third parties
- Sound judgment and discretion
- Ability to engage proactively across a broad range of client group
How Would You Stand Out?
- Experience in food, biotechnology or life science industries considered a plus
- Solution oriented mindset with ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Being a team player with a can-do-mentality
Why Choose Us?
- HO opportunity from the beginning (3 days/week)
- Professional onboarding process
- Multinational and supporting environment
- Cafeteria
- Health insurance
- Training opportunities
- Language learning opportunity
- Learning and development programs
- Annual bonus
We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.
Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more
