Legal Counsel

ArcelorMittal is the world’s largest steel producer. We use the most innovative technologies to create the steels tomorrow’s world will be made of. Every day over 125,000 of our talented people, located in over 60 countries, push the boundaries of digitalization, and use advanced technologies to create a stronger, faster, and smarter world. To help make this possible, they know they can depend on the support and training that a company of our scope and scale can provide.

Comprising 1,650 researchers spread across 14 Research Centres around the world, our Global R&D team aims to continuously improve the quality of steel and its manufacturing processes. This involves investigating and developing disruptive technologies, reducing the carbon footprint of steel, and optimizing costs while maintaining uncompromising quality. The team's strong multicultural diversity, with over 30 nationalities, offers international experience and makes it possible to meet global needs.

IP/IT Legal Team is organizing partnerships and collaborations between ArcelorMittal affiliates and industrials, suppliers, institutes and customers to support the Company in its strategy of control, management and valorization of the new developments and new technologies and support Company in its relationship with software editors - notably with regards to compliance with data protection, and also has to manage GDPR activities. This team is also following related litigations.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Legal Counsel to provide hands-on support to the existing team, and to further strengthen legal support across the Group's R&D activities, complex CAPEX projects, and high-profile M&A transactions.

Your role

The role is particularly important in light of the increasingly complex and evolving regulatory landscape in which these activities are conducted. You will bring both technical expertise and practical experience to support strategic projects.

As Senior Legal Counsel, you will provide legal support across a broad range of IP and IT matters, including contract drafting, negotiation and management, intellectual property protection and enforcement, trademarks, domain names, copyright, and technology-related transactions. The role will also cover emerging and strategically important areas such as cybersecurity, digital technologies, data governance, and artificial intelligence, which are becoming increasingly critical to the business.

Your profile

• You hold a Master's degree / LLM / CAPA with specialization in intellectual property with at least 5 years of experience in that domain, ideally with technical appetence and in an industrial company.
• You are fluent in English.
• You have excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Adaptability and teamwork are required.

According to ArcelorMittal Global R&D values:

• You agree to comply with health and safety rules.
• You are respectful, transparent, honest, and empathetic in your relationships. You honor your word and your commitments to others.
• You agree to behave consistently with the highest level of integrity.
• You strive to question your practices. with high expectations of yourself and others, you strive for a high level of quality and reliability in everything you do.
• You recognize that diversity, varied skills, and fresh ideas make a group exponentially better in the pursuit of a common goal.
• You know that learning changes minds and lives, so you are committed to learning throughout your professional career and continually achieving the skills required and essential to your success.
• You are open to ideas that challenge conventions and stimulate innovation.

Join us and you will see that your work will help create renewable energy, impact major industries and boost economies. At ArcelorMittal, we'll help you create your world.

Attractive remuneration with stimulating career prospects in which eminent scientists and engineers evolve in a multicultural environment.

ArcelorMittal is the world's leading steel and mining company, with a presence in 60 countries and primary steelmaking facilities in 15 countries. Our material is part of the fabric of life. What we produce makes a difference – to individuals, communities, businesses and society. At ArcelorMittal, the safety, health, and wellbeing of our employees are our top priorities. We believe that every accident is avoidable, and it is essential for every employee, from the shop floor to the management committee, to hold this belief. 
Our purpose is to produce ever smarter steels that have a positive benefit for people and planet. Steels made using innovative processes which use less energy, emit significantly less carbon and reduce costs. Steels that are cleaner, stronger and reusable. Steels for electric vehicles and renewable energy infrastructure that will support societies as they transform through this century. With steel at our core, our inventive people and an entrepreneurial culture at heart, we will support the world in making that change. This is what we believe it takes to be the steel company of the future.  Research and development are central to the strategy of ArcelorMittal, the leading innovator in the world of steel, and are the group's technological mainstay. With 11 sites worldwide dedicated to research, ArcelorMittal employs more than 1,500 researchers. They are developing the next generation steels and solutions that will offer our customers a broad range of new options. ArcelorMittal's research centres are targeting continual technical advances for the automotive, construction and general industry sectors, as well as for steel production processes.