Legal Manager (m/f/d)
cylib
- You draft, review and negotiate contracts with our customers, suppliers and partners.
- You support our business units on day-to-day legal questions and develop practical solutions together with them.
- You help shape our compliance structures, draft internal policies and design legal processes. You support their implementation and help ensure compliance.
- You build our contract management system and ensure our contracts are managed in a structured way and kept up to date.
- You also support employment law questions in close collaboration with our People team.
- You work closely with our Head of Legal to develop practical legal solutions for a growing industrial company.
- You bring the legal perspective into cross-functional topics and projects.
- You have a completed degree in law, business law or a comparable qualification.
- You bring 3-5 years of relevant professional experience and practical knowledge of contract and corporate law, especially drafting and reviewing contracts. Experience in contract negotiations is a plus.
- Knowledge of employment law, compliance and corporate law is also a plus.
- You work pragmatically and solution-oriented, combining legal diligence with an understanding of operational requirements.
- You grasp complex legal matters quickly and can explain them clearly to colleagues without a legal background.
- You show initiative, work independently and act responsibly.
- You enjoy shaping structures and processes in a growing company and working with colleagues from different departments.
- You have very good German and good English skills, both spoken and written.
- You take ownership from day one – after an intensive onboarding, you'll build something unique with us and shape outcomes with real impact on results.
- You work on something that truly matters – with your contribution, you strengthen Europe's battery supply chains and make circular economy a reality on an industrial scale.
- You're part of a mission-driven team – in a fast-paced scale-up environment, we live collaboration, because we can only move things forward together.
- You work to the highest standards – we combine the professionalism of leading industry with the innovative power of a top-tier, research-driven technology team.
- You grow with us – at cylib, you will do what is likely to be the most impactful work of your career and develop personally as we scale together.
cylib is a German battery recycling company that emerged from research at RWTH Aachen University in 2022. With an integrated network of sites, we bring together research and development at our headquarters in Aachen, dismantling and mechanical processing in Wernberg-Köblitz, and hydrometallurgical processing in Dormagen (in ramp-up). Our goal: building a resilient European value chain through the recovery of high-quality materials for sustainable batteries.
With our innovative OLiC technology (Optimized Lithium and Graphite Recovery), we recover over 90% of the contained raw materials – with a CO2 footprint that is 80% lower than conventional processes. Towards the realization of a true circular economy in the European market.
Interested?
Please upload your documents (a cover letter is not necessay) and answer the questions in the application form.
We look forward to receiving your application!