Sr. Managing Counsel, Global Chains & BookingHome
Booking.comAmsterdamUpdate time: April 29,2020
Job Description
It wasn’t so long ago that booking a trip to see the Eiffel Tower, stroll down New York’s iconic Madison Avenue or feel the sand between our toes on Copacabana Beach was simply a matter of a few taps on our smartphone.
In fact, that’s what we do at Booking.com. We make it easier for everyone to experience the world. And while that world might feel a little farther away right now, we’re busy preparing for when the world is ready to travel once more.
Across our offices worldwide, we continue to innovate. To solve for some of the most complex challenges in travel and technology, and to plan for the exciting developments that lie ahead. With strategic long-term investments into what we believe the future of travel can be, we are opening up new career opportunities that will have a strong impact on our mission.
We are united in the belief that our very human desire to explore the planet’s beauty and discover more about other people and cultures will endure. The world is waiting for us. Together, we will be ready.
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In order to be ready, Booking.com's Legal department is looking to welcome a Sr Managing Counsel to focus on the Global Chains & BookingHome division of our business. Our core business has, historically, been linked to the hotel industry and hotels still form the backbone of our success. The Global Chains department is supporting this industry by contracting Hotels Chains. Today, however, the market is changing and more than half of our inventory is made of Homes and Apartments. The group within Booking that focuses on this segment, is called Booking Home. Booking Home's long term goal is to become the world's leading source for short-term home and apartment rentals.
As Sr Managing Counsel - Global Chains & BookingHome you will be the leading lawyer supporting the Global Chains & BookingHome team, serving as a Business Partner to help the team in delivering on its Strategic Priorities, and ensuring compliance with laws and policies.
B.Responsible:
- Provide leadership and guidance to Global Chains & BookingHome leadership team on a full range of legal issues, including commercial contracts, disputes, competition law, IP law, consumer law regulatory (in coordination with the other experts in the Legal department), to ensure the activities, policies, business practices and transactions comply with all relevant laws and regulations
- Serve as a business partner to the Global Chains & BookingHome team helping the team to deliver on its Strategic Priorities and grow the business in a sustainable way
- Draft and negotiate complex global deals with Booking’s Global Chain & Booking Home partners (e.g. hotel chain groups)
- Coordinate with Regional Counsels on Global Chain & BookingHome deals and any potential local regulatory matters that may arise
- Serve as single point of contact within the Legal team to ensure that legal and public affairs priorities of all subareas of Legal (e.g. privacy, competition, consumer law) are being rolled out in the Global Chains & BookingHome departments
- Train the Global Chain and BookingHome team on a variety of legal matters and work with the Global Chain and BookingHome leadership team to improve risk management and controls
- Analyse precedents/case law, and proposed and existing laws and regulations that may impact the Global Chain and BookingHome departments and its growth, and work on implementing any requirements coming from such regulations
- Manage external counsel where needed and constantly look for opportunities to improve ways of working/process/controls (eg contract management matters)
- Work hand in hand with the Public Affairs team on policy issues related to BookingHome
B.Skilled:
- 8+ years' experience in negotiating international commercial deals/contracts, within a similar position
- Master's degree in Law is a must-have (Dutch qualified is a plus)
- Airline, OTA, Travel, Rental Car industry experience is a big advantage
- A confident self-starter with strong interpersonal and organisational skills
- The ability to effectively and proactively provide sound legal advice, exercise good business judgment
- The ability to work with senior management in order to implement policies and processes on a cross-functional basis
- Openness and flexibility to thrive in a fast paced environment
- Demonstrated ability to independently lead a commercial contract from inception to closure, including;
- whole-cloth drafting of custom agreements relating to new business initiatives
- navigating strategic contracts through the company to obtain input and approval, including from senior management as applicable
- appropriately escalating legal and business matters
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