Director Legal & Compliance

About the role

As a member of the Türkiye Senior Leadership Team, the Director Legal & Compliance acts as a strategic business partner to the Türkiye organisation, giving proactive legal and compliance guidance that supports business objectives, sustainable growth and protection of adidas' assets. The role covers general legal services, including advice, contracts and training, and also serves as the Compliance Officer for the market.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the Legal & Compliance function for Türkiye with full responsibility, advising all business areas with risk profiling and mitigation.
• Act as legal lead on critical and crisis matters and support crisis preparedness and management.
• Support transformation, outsourcing and insourcing projects and other strategic initiatives, working closely with the Global Legal & Compliance team.
• Provide legal services such as contract review, drafting, negotiation, transaction structuring, risk assessment, dispute avoidance and client training.
• Manage day-to-day legal needs, liaise with the Group Intellectual Property team and act as key legal contact for the General Manager and senior management.
• Support corporate transactions (joint ventures, acquisitions, mergers), corporate recordkeeping and corporate governance.
• Supervise external counsel for quality, efficiency and cost-effectiveness, and manage compliance communication and education.

Required profile

• Law degree required; postgraduate qualifications in business, management or a relevant field are an advantage.
• At least 15 years of post-qualification experience in a law firm and/or as corporate counsel, including general corporate, transactional and commercial law.
• Experience leading strategic legal and compliance initiatives and managing external counsel and budgets.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Required skills

• Strong commercial and corporate law background, negotiation and business counselling.
• Leadership, change management and strategic thinking.
• Ability to influence senior executives and regional and global stakeholders.