Senior Legal Counsel

About the Position

Are you a dedicated lawyer wishing to work in an international, collaborative and professional environment? Are you passionate about how legal aspects contribute to capture business opportunities and manage risks? We offer you an opportunity to be part of Höganäs’ legal team with great ambitions to provide high-quality legal services, and to develop ways of working to proactively and efficiently meet the group’s need for legal competence and compliance. In this role you can certainly make a difference!

Höganäs Legal team is a dedicated team that ensures that the group at all times have access to high-quality legal support in a wide range of business matters, reaching from day-to day corporate matters to complex business transactions in an international environment.

The work covers a variety of areas like research and development, co-operations, sales, distribution, intellectual property rights and know-how, corporate law, energy and real estate related matters, IT, data protection etc. The legal team also manages the group’s IP strategy and portfolio, is overall responsible for the compliance programs within the group and manages the group insurance program. The work will include but not be limited to the following;

• Proactively engaging and advising on legal opportunities and risks related to general business matters, including drafting and reviewing agreements with customers, partners and suppliers, M&A, energy, real property and IT matters etc.;
• Providing guidance with respect to changes in legal regulatory framework;
• Participating in development of and implementing legal related policies and processes, template agreements and supporting tools in order to support best practice;
• Developing knowledge and competence among business colleagues in respect of commercial contracts, corporate governance and ethics, including offering training programs, supporting process development etc.;
• Supporting in corporate legal matters and governance, including maintaining updated corporate-related information regarding the legal business entities within the group and
• Managing and co-ordinating external legal advisers.
• The position reports to the VP Group Legal & General Counsel. Travel will be required occasionally.

Your profile

You have a Swedish LL.M. followed by at least six years of experience from working at a reputable law firm or as an international in-house counsel working with matters relevant for the job. You have excellent communication skills in Swedish and English, verbally and in writing. You have a genuine interest in doing business, a strategic mindset, and a solid commercial understanding. You actively contribute with your expertise to support and impact the business. You have a proven ability to communicate complex information in a simplified way, contributing to good decision making.

As a person, you are perceived as a positive team player, willing to build relations and to share experience and knowledge, to learn from others and not afraid to go “that extra mile” when needed. You continuously improve ways of working and engage other to do the same, and you actively take actions to implement changes in processes and behaviors.

In order to be successful, you must have the ability to work independently, to prioritize and to structure your work efficiently. You are committed to always deliver with high quality and to respond to the business and management’s need for service.

Benefits

At Höganäs we appreciate our employees, and we want to show it. Not only by making sure that we have good pensions and insurances, but also by encouraging you to stay healthy with training center in the Höganäs facilities and with wellness allowance. We also have a reduction of working hours and profit sharing which also is a way of showing that our employees are our greatest investment.

Interested?

We will be conducting interviews continuesly so do not hesitate with your application. Application deadline is 2026-12-04. We look forward to hearing from you.

Contact:

Anna Gunnarsson

VP Corporate Legal, General Counsel

Anna.Gunnarsson@hoganas.com

Emma Karlsson

HR Tech Team Leader

Emma.Karlsson@hoganas.com

Working at Höganäs

We aim to offer a great and meaningful place to work where you can fulfill your potential and ambitions. We welcome all applicants and strive for diversity. We have a clear management philosophy, and just like us you believe that through collaboration and openness we develop as individuals and as a company. We see all employees, regardless of position, as leaders when we approach the challenges that the world - and we - face. Höganäs ambition is to lead the transformation to better meet the needs of tomorrow and become the preferred supplier of sustainable metal powder on a global scale – join us in our journey of sustainable change and towards net-zero climate emissions.

More about Höganäs

Founded in 1797, Höganäs is the world leader in the market for powders, with an annual capacity of 500,000 tonnes. Höganäs’ vision is to drive positive change through material innovation, with the ambition of becoming the globally preferred partner for sustainable powder materials.

The company’s strength lies in its diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences, and Höganäs is committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. Höganäs collaborates with customers across multiple industries to develop innovative solutions, including applications in automotive components, electric motors, brazing, surface coating, welding consumables and additive manufacturing. Operating 15 production centers worldwide and employing 2,200 people, Höganäs’ turnover for 2025 was 11,045 MSEK. Höganäs is owned by Lindéngruppen and FAM. www.hoganas.com

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Why work here?

At Höganäs, we are firm believers in the capacity of the individual. We are certain that everyone, no matter their position or formal background, has the ability and willingness to develop both professionally and personally. We are positive that each person can contribute to improving both our workplace and Höganäs’ business.

Our aim is to create a company that connects people and that sees, values and extracts the full potential in each individual. We strongly believe that a workplace where people are passionate about their work, experience a sense of meaning and have a possibility to make an impact, is the foundation for our progress and performance as a company.

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About Us

Founded in 1797, Höganäs is the world leader in the market for powders, with a yearly capacity of 500,000 tonnes. Our vision is to drive positive change through material innovation, with the ambition of becoming the globally preferred partner for sustainable powder materials. At Höganäs, our strength lies in our diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, and we are committed to gender diversity.

We collaborate with customers to innovate solutions for automotive components, electric motors, brazing, surface coating, welding, and additive manufacturing. Operating 15 production centers worldwide and employing 2,200 people, Höganäs' turnover for 2025 was 11,045 MSEK.

Höganäs is owned by Lindéngruppen and Wallenberg-owned FAM. www.hoganas.com