Legal Counsel - Polish Qualified
Substantive Legal Experience
Substantive Legal Experience
Warsaw
Legal Staffing
Mar 5, 2026
We’re working with a leading ice cream company who require support from a Polish-qualified lawyer for the next 18 months.
Supporting the Polish and Baltic territories, the role will involve:
Skills required:
It’s a full-time role starting at the end of April, and ideally you’ll work 2 days per week from the Warsaw office.
If you’re a Polish-qualified lawyer looking for your next opportunity, we’d love to hear from you.
Supporting the Polish and Baltic territories, the role will involve:
- Leading all Customer Development and commercial contracting for Poland, including customer agreements, sales arrangements, rebate structures, and distribution contracts.
- Providing expert guidance on competition law in an FMCG context to ensure compliant commercial strategies, trade terms, and rebate models.
- Supporting the Baltics (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) on CD and distribution-related legal matters, and coordinating with local external counsel where required.
- Where possible, advising on market-entry and distributor arrangements, including drafting and negotiating distribution agreements for new or developing markets (EG, Ukraine).
- Partnering with the Poland General Manager and leadership team, participating in leadership forums and shaping commercial decision-making.
- Guiding the business on privacy considerations arising within commercial and customer contracts.
- Handling basic marketing and claims queries and liaising with external counsel for more complex advertising/regulatory matters.
- Providing limited employment-law support for factory-related issues and escalating specialist matters to external advisors as appropriate.
Skills required:
- 10 years+ experience working as a lawyer in Poland
- Solid commercial contracts experience in FMCG context
- Comfortable handling competition issues in relation to commercial contracts
- Team player and collaborative
It’s a full-time role starting at the end of April, and ideally you’ll work 2 days per week from the Warsaw office.
If you’re a Polish-qualified lawyer looking for your next opportunity, we’d love to hear from you.