Legal Counsel - Commercial Contracting
- Location
- Krakow, Poland
- Work type
- On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Salary
- Not listed
- Clearance
- Not required
- U.S. citizenship
- Not stated
- Posted
- Nov 9, 2026
About the role
Job Description
Legal Counsel (Commercial Contracting)
Kraków, Poland
Full time
Why join Rolls-Royce?
At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.
By joining Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.
As Legal Counsel (Commercial Contracting), you will join a growing legal team in the Rolls-Royce Global Capability Centre in Kraków, working as part of our global General Counsel function. You will provide practical, timely legal support across supplier and customer contracting, including drafting and negotiation support and interpreting existing agreements. Your responsibilities will reflect your level of experience, with independent management of appropriate matters, guidance of junior colleagues and the opportunity to help shape a new technology-enabled way of delivering legal services.
You will support contracting activity across Rolls-Royce businesses and functions, working with Procurement, customer-facing teams and General Counsel colleagues. The portfolio will include supplier and customer agreements, with exposure to international stakeholders and complex commercial contracting matters.
What you will be doing:
- Draft, review and interpret contracts: Provide practical, timely and technically sound legal advice on procurement and customer contracting, including new agreements, renewals and amendments. Use approved templates and playbooks to produce clear drafts and mark-ups, explaining legal issues and options in a way that supports business decisions
- Support negotiations: Prepare legal positions, clause comparisons and workable fallback options, and negotiate within agreed scope and authority. Identify associated legal risks and issues and provide legal input to procurement and customer-facing colleagues, as part of a cohesive and collaborative Rolls-Royce team
- Progress matters with sound judgement: Manage appropriate matters independently, within agreed scope and authority, seeking senior or specialist input when required. Establish the facts, commercial context, dependencies and deadlines, and apply the relevant contracting requirements to progress matters effectively
- Identify and escalate risk: Recognise material legal and commercial issues, uncertainties and urgent deadlines early. Assess their potential impact and prepare or contribute to concise, decision-ready escalation briefs setting out the issue, options and recommendation. Propose practical ways to manage, minimise or mitigate risk while supporting the intended business outcome, seeking senior or specialist input when required
- Collaborate and develop: Build trusted relationships across General Counsel, Procurement and Customer contracting teams. Guide and review junior colleagues’ work, sharing practical advice and feedback to support their development. Contribute to training, knowledge management and the active sharing of contracting best practice across the legal function and the business
- Improve how we work: Keep accurate matter and decision records, protect privilege and confidentiality, share learning and help improve templates, playbooks and technology-enabled workflows, including the responsible use of AI
Position requirements:
- A law degree (Polish Magister Prawa or equivalent international law degree), a sound foundation in contract law and qualification appropriate to the jurisdiction in which you qualified
- Fluent written and spoken English, including legal English, with clear drafting, interpretation, analysis and communication skills
- Relevant commercial contracting experience and the ability to manage matters independently and guide junior colleagues. Around +5 years’ post-qualification experience may be indicative of the level required, but applications will be considered based on the skills and experience demonstrated
- You will bring sound commercial judgement and business acumen, using these to solve complex problems and prioritise competing demands to meet challenging deadlines. You will communicate and influence confidently across functions and levels, building collaborative relationships. You will also be motivated, adaptable and comfortable working with appropriate autonomy in a fast-paced environment
Preferred qualifications and experience:
- Experience with procurement, supply-chain, customer or complex industrial contracts, ideally within a multinational organisation
- Exposure to English-law or other common-law commercial contracts; an England and Wales practising certificate is welcome but not essential
- Experience in an in-house legal team, legal operations, shared services or a centre of excellence
- Commercial curiosity, collaborative judgement and an interest in responsible technology-enabled legal delivery
- Experience in either German or New York law contracting is welcome but not essential
What do we offer:
- Annual bonus based on financial results and employee performance evaluation
- Employer financed private healthcare at LuxMed for employees. Additional packages can be purchased
- Group life insurance
- Subsidy for glasses/contact lenses worn for work, up to the amount of PLN 600 gross, every two years
- Subsidy for extra-curricular activities within the cafeteria system on the myBenefit platform/subsidy for Multisport cards, up to the amount of PLN 100 gross per month
- Internet and electricity allowance for remote work, in the amount of PLN 100 gross per month
- Increased funding for the Employee Capital Plans (PPK) program; Rolls-Royce Sp. z o.o. contributes 3% to this program
- Additional vacation days based on length of serviceHybrid work model (min. 2 days from office)undefined
- Work in a modern office located in the Krakow center – the Unity Tower (ul. Lubomirskiego 20)
The Kraków Rolls-Royce Global Capability Centre represents an exciting new chapter in the growth of Rolls-Royce Group Business Services. Designed to support global operations and employee services, the Centre is a key hub for enabling operational efficiency and strengthening global business processes. It delivers exceptional services across finance, procurement, HR, Data Analytics and Service Management.
Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.
Rolls-Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.