Legal & Compliance Lead

Legal & Compliance Lead Legal / Compliance / Subsidies

ABOUT THE ROLE
AG Solution keeps growing, mostly through acquisitions. Every new entity brings its own contracts, registers, filings and local rules. Every country also has grants and tax incentives that nobody is claiming yet. Someone needs to keep all of that in order. That is this role.

As our Legal & Compliance Lead you make sure we stay legally sound, meet our regulatory obligations and claim the funding we are entitled to. You advise leadership and the teams on the ground, you handle what can be handled in-house, and for specialist or foreign questions you bring in external counsel and keep them on track.

You report to our CHRO and work as a standalone role, with no direct reports. You do not need to know every legal system in Europe. You need to know when a question is yours, when it is not, and who to call.

THREE PILLARS, ONE ROLE

• Legal: advice, contracts, corporate governance across our entities, insurance, and managing our external law firms.

• Compliance: GDPR, anti-bribery and corruption, fraud prevention, competition law, and new ESG reporting obligations.

• Subsidies: finding grants and tax incentives, building the business case, and seeing applications through to the money arriving.

• You will probably come in strongest on the legal side. The other two pillars are where you will make the most visible difference.
  
  WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Advise leadership and operational teams on legal questions, spot risk early, and decide what stays in-house and what goes to external counsel.

• Run our external law firms across countries: brief them, track quality and cost, escalate when things slip, and report on legal spend so it stays transparent.

• Own the contract lifecycle, from drafting and negotiating to renewal.

• Maintain our templates (employment, commercial, consulting, NDA), set clear sign-off rules, and keep every contract filed and easy to find.

• Keep each entity in order with the country managers: shareholder registers, ownership structures, statutory changes, annual filings, board meetings and directors. Support due diligence on acquisitions, and the legal integration of new entities once the deal is done.

• Manage our corporate insurance (D&O, general liability, employment practices liability, cyber), coordinate claims, and make sure cover keeps pace as we grow.

• Oversee compliance across all our countries. On GDPR you work with the Compliance Director and DPO: consent records, data subject requests, and flagging risk in how we process personal data.

• Follow new legal, regulatory and ESG requirements and turn them into concrete actions, clear communication and training. Strengthen internal controls together with Finance and Audit.

• Find grants, tax incentives and funding programmes (R&D tax credits, training subsidies, schemes such as SIFIDE II in Portugal), size the opportunity per entity and build the business case for Finance.

• Build relationships with funding agencies and specialist consultants, manage applications and reporting, keep a subsidy calendar, and report on the pipeline every quarter.
  
  WHAT THIS ROLE IS NOT
  We would rather you know this before you apply.
  

• Not a catch-all in-house counsel.

• Day-to-day questions are yours; specialist and foreign matters go to external counsel, whom you manage.

• Not a tax specialist.

• You do not run tax strategy. You spot funding opportunities, build the case and see the application through.

• Not the Compliance Director. ISO, information security and the wider compliance framework sit with them. You are their partner on GDPR and ESG.

• Not an HR role.

• You report to the CHRO, but recruitment, L&D and employee relations are not part of the job.
  
  WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
  You will not tick every box. Nobody does.
  

• A master’s degree in law, broad general legal knowledge and a real interest in a range of practice areas.

• At least five years of relevant legal experience, ideally at a multinational or an international law firm.

• In-house or international experience counts strongly.

• A track record in contract management and in coordinating external advisers across several countries.

• The two things we really screen for: you organise and delegate instead of trying to do everything yourself; and red tape does not put you off, you work your way through agency procedures and hit strict deadlines.

• Comfort with spreadsheets and tools for tracking contracts, entities and deadlines.

• An understanding of how subsidies connect to operations and cash flow, and the ability to turn legal requirements into actions people actually follow.

• Fluent Dutch and English. French, German or Spanish is a plus.

• Willingness to travel around 15% of the time, to group entities, agencies and partners.
  
  It helps if you have worked in a buy-and-build, M&A or post-merger integration setting; know GDPR, ESG reporting or D&O insurance; have managed subsidy applications; have coordinated employment law matters in an HR context; or come from a scale-up.
  
  WHAT YOU GET

• A visible, autonomous role where legal, compliance and funding come together.

• A short line to leadership: you report directly to the CHRO.

• Growing international group with plenty of room to build your own processes and systems.

• Competitive salary package in line with your experience.
  

Join AG Solution Where Talent Shapes Industry 4.0
At AG Solution, we build intelligent solutions for the process industry, combining automation, process control, data management, and MES/MOM systems to help manufacturers reach operational excellence.

Now part of the Quariq Group, we are one of Europe’s leading Industry 4.0 partners, with more than 400 engineers and consultants working across Europe, the UK, and the US.

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Our success starts with our people. We invest in growth through continuous learning, mentorship, and our AG Academy, ensuring every colleague has the opportunity to develop their skills and career. AG Solution is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We believe that innovation happens when people feel trusted, connected, and inspired.

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With offices in over 15 cities worldwide, we bring together diverse expertise and perspectives — from Antwerp to Barcelona, Rotterdam to Lyon, and New York to Krakow.

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