(Senior) manager business/commercial law

Job description

Can’t wait to make an impact on the world? You’re not alone. Join us in driving progress in the working world and beyond. At Tax and Legal Services, we provide top-notch tax and legal support to businesses with private ownership interests. Our vibrant team thrives on collaboration, tackling challenges head-on as trusted advisors to Belgian family businesses, fast-growing companies, and SMEs. Specialising in Direct and Indirect Tax, Social Law, Private Governance (Estate Planning), Business and Commercial Law, and Corporate & M&A Law, we ensure our clients navigate complex regulations with confidence. With a strong local presence, we deeply understand our clients' needs and offer pragmatic solutions. Your journey with us Are you passionate about innovation, technology, and law? Do you thrive in dynamic environments and have at least 8 years of experience as a lawyer, in-house legal counsel, or legal consultant? If you’re hands-on, motivated, and ready for a new challenge, we want to hear from you! Join our Business & Commercial Law team and help us make a real impact on the thriving Belgian tech ecosystem (with a focus on Antwerp and Limburg). As a Legal Leader, you’ll: • Empower tech start-ups and scale-ups: Provide strategic, pragmatic advice to local and international innovators tackling complex legal challenges. • Draft and review critical documents: From partnership agreements and terms of use to license agreements, privacy procedures, SLAs, and trademark registrations, your work will drive growth and innovation. • Collaborate closely with clients: Help implement policies and negotiate agreements while finding creative solutions to disputes with customers, suppliers, and partners. • Lead and inspire your team: Mentor a group of 10+ highly motivated heroes, with the goal of making your team even better than yourself—empowering them to thrive and grow. • Leverage your network: Bring your connections with founders and investors to create opportunities and build lasting partnerships. • Drive innovation in business development: Stay ahead of trends, market legal services, give workshops, publish thought leadership articles, and contribute to growing our impact in the Belgian tech ecosystem. Let's talk about you • You hold a Belgian master’s degree in law (an advanced master’s is a plus) and are ready to apply your expertise in a leadership capacity. • You possess strong technical legal knowledge with at least 8 years of relevant experience as a lawyer, in-house legal counsel, or legal consultant. Having deep knowledge of IP/IT law, data protection, AI regulations, medical device compliance, or competition law, is a plus. • Your leadership and management skills inspire others, and you actively mentor younger colleagues, helping them grow and thrive in their professional journeys. • You actively contribute to business development, taking a leading role in researching new regulations and trends, marketing legal services, networking, giving workshops and seminars, and publishing thought leadership articles. • You’re a fast learner and change agent, have a startup mentality and excel in the design-build-operate mindset, taking ownership from strategy to execution. You’re strategic and innovative , contributing to the development and execution of forward-thinking strategies that make a real impact. You’re hands-on and proactive , with a down-to-earth attitude that embraces challenges and turns them into opportunities. • You function exceptionally well in multidisciplinary teams, collaborating with tax specialists, accountants, strategic advisors, M&A experts, IT consultants, and more. • You love intrapreneurship, bringing an entrepreneurial spirit to a corporate environment and driving innovation from within. • You have excellent knowledge of Dutch and English, enabling you to excel in a multicultural and multilingual environment. We don’t expect you to tick every box right away! What matters most is the right match between you and us. With the right motivation and mindset, we’ll provide the supportive and inspiring environment you need to master this role and exceed your goals. Ready to make a difference? This is your opportunity to drive innovation, shape the future of tech, and grow your career with a purpose. Let’s make an impact—together! Let our professional experts take care of your administrative and financial worries. Whether you're a start-up, SME or family company, we adjust our services to the lifecycle and milestone moments of your business, helping you steer your company in your desired direction. Who is Deloitte? We provide industry-leading audit and assurance, tax and legal, consulting and related services. We are committed to driving innovation across offerings to help our clients address their challenges, while giving our professionals opportunities to learn and grow in this era of transformation. In Belgium, +5000 dedicated professionals active in +10 offices, take great pride in bringing multidisciplinary expertise to a wide variety of clients, from national and international companies, small, fast-growing and large organizations to public institutions and governmental authorities. Why Deloitte? Be the true you! We foster diversity and inclusion and encourage you to bring your authentic self to work. Explore, question and collaborate while building a career that inspires and energises you. Never stop growing! Diversity of thought makes us stronger. At Deloitte, we tailor a personalized learning experience, offering you the opportunity to grow at your own pace and achieve maximum impact. We practice what we preach! As a Purpose-led organisation, at the heart of everything we do is a set of timeless principles and unifying values . Life looks different for each of us, so we created a varied benefits package that you can tap into: My Benefits My Choice , a flexible rewards plan tailored to your lifestyle and priorities Sustainable transport options offered by Mobility@Deloitte Flexible work arrangements for all and initiatives supported by Parents & Caregivers @Deloitte Wellbeing tips and activities powered by Energise@Deloitte Topped off with other health benefits and insurance opportunities Empowering our employees with flexible work arrangements remains essential in today's reality: Hybrid workplace: combination of home office and on-site (+10 offices in Belgium or client's premises). Part-time employment: all our jobs are open to full-time or part-time work under a 90% or 80% regime. Join us to make an impact together! Apply now! #LI-KV1