Intro
You are a lawyer with leadership experience and you're excited to actively bring AI and automation into your work? Then you're in the right place.
The Händlerbund supports online retailers in Germany with legal protection, digital tools, and expertise. Our legal team works daily on cases that directly affect our members' business: from cease-and-desist letters to trademark advice to account suspensions on Amazon and eBay. In doing so, we develop solutions that proactively protect our members.
We're looking for a strong leader (m/f/d) who will lead this team and at the same time understands how to further develop, automate, and modernize legal services in a digital environment.
Your Tasks
- Team leadership & development: You lead your legal team, define roles & responsibilities, and know where each person stands and how they can develop. Feedback conversations, onboarding, and team events are part of it.
- Performance monitoring: You conduct continuous monitoring of team performance, identify weaknesses early, and initiate concrete measures, including evaluations and recommendations for action for management.
- Processes & standards: You create uniform work standards and ensure they are lived. Where something isn't working, you optimize it together with the process manager or independently.
- AI & digitalization: You evaluate new tools, drive the use of AI-powered solutions, and implement them.
- Cease-and-desist letters & legal products: You monitor cease-and-desist trends and account suspensions and derive action recommendations from them. For selected Händlerbund products, you bear content responsibility.
- Day-to-day operations & management: Capacity planning, personnel planning, controlling, quality assurance, and team meetings are your responsibility.
- Interface with other departments: You are the central contact person for other business areas and ensure smooth information exchange and functioning cross-departmental collaboration.
Your Profile
- Two state examinations: You have the legal foundation and know when to use it and when to think pragmatically.
- Experience in relevant areas of law: You can provide technical guidance to your team and are close enough to recognize trends. Your background ideally lies in competition law, IT law, trademark and copyright law, commercial intellectual property protection, commercial and corporate law, or other industry-specific areas.
- Leadership experience: You have already led teams and understand that good leadership is more than distributing tasks. Empathy, clarity, and reliability characterize you.
- Digital affinity & spirit of innovation: You bring your own ideas around new tools, AI solutions, automation, and want to implement them.
- Structure & organizational talent: You keep track even with many parallel topics.
- Entrepreneurial thinking: You think in solutions, not problems, and have a good sense for economic relationships and numbers.
- Customer focus & communication skills: Whether internally or externally: You communicate clearly, solution-oriented, and always keep the satisfaction of Händlerbund members in mind.
- Willingness to change & resilience: You are flexible, can prioritize, and don't lose the thread even in a rapidly growing environment; instead, you see change as an opportunity.
Why us?
Work the way that fits your life
- Work 4 days & have 3 days for yourself: For us, the 4-day week isn't an extra, it's standard. More time for life, every week. Whether you work in our Leipzig office or remotely from anywhere in Germany, you have the choice. Flexible working hours are included. We rely on trust, give you responsibility, and offer you a permanent contract from day one.
- Shape rather than just execute: You want to think along, contribute, and really make a difference? That's exactly what Händlerbund is about. Here, initiative counts, and of course so does teamwork: at joint events, summer festivals, or relaxed lunch breaks at the grill, fun is never in short supply.
- Snacks, style & furry feel-good managers: Whether coffee, water, muesli, or fruit: you're taken care of. Dress code? Not here. Just be yourself. And if your dog is your favorite companion, bring them along! They're warmly welcome in the office.
- Benefits that matter: Childcare subsidy, support with retirement planning, Leipzig job ticket, or sports offerings for your balance, from home gym to fitness studio for mind and body.
Your Path to Us
Not in the mood for long cover letters? No problem! Just tell us briefly why you want to be part of Händlerbund and why we're a good fit for you. Use the option to apply online via our application form. We look forward to your application with your salary expectations and your earliest possible start date.
If you have questions about this job, please contact our HR Manager Lisa Winkler by email: [email protected]
About Us
We, Händlerbund, support companies in being successful in e-commerce. With our expertise and passion, we provide solutions and guidance for the daily challenges of the e-commerce industry. As a strong team, we lay the foundation for our corporate culture and the success of our work. We share common values that define our daily tasks and our mindset – whether with colleagues, customers, members, partners, or friends. As Händlerbund, we are part of a shared identity. It provides us with guidelines to always do the best job. We are Händlerbund, we are HB People.