Legal Counsel Director, Amadeus
+ Bonus + Equity
Ability to travel – 15 %
Travel analytics software
Be an early applicant
Travel analytics software
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
+ Bonus + Equity
Ability to travel – 15 %
1001+ employees
Company mission
To power better journeys through travel technology.
Role
Who you are
- Post-graduate Degree in Law
- 10+ years’ experience in a law firm or multinational corporation
- Basic understanding of the travel and distribution industry
- Knowledge of MS Office Suite
- English: written and oral fluency required for communication with internal stakeholders
- Negotiation, drafting and review of contracts and legal documentation
- Project management, organization & planning skills
- Strong statistical and analytical skills, with high attention to detail; Conceptual thinking, strategic understanding and synthesis analysis
- Strong written, oral and presentation skills
- Ability to travel – 15 %
What the job involves
- The Director, Legal Counsel position will provide legal assistance to Amadeus within the applicable laws and regulations, ensuring the company activities are compliant to International, European and national regulations, accordingly
- Formulate and implement the Amadeus’ airline distribution strategy in North America together with the Americas Travel Distribution commercial organization and LEG senior management
- Draft and negotiate complex, high-value airline distribution contracts, with a special focus on North American airline customers
- Provide timely and strategic legal advice and support to the upstream Travel Distribution commercial teams, with a special focus on North American airline customers
- Draft and negotiate metasearch network/booking/search negotiations and contracts with both North American airlines and metasearch customers
- Support the Corporate Function in the Region to ensure company policies and industry best practices are respected
- Ensure that intercompany agreements are in place and reflect the current corporate policies from central. Preparation of Board of Directors resolutions and Shareholder resolutions
- Manage from the region, when applicable, the formation/dissolution/amalgamation of entities as directed from Madrid
- Together with the Americas Travel Distribution commercial organization and LEG senior management, formulating and implementing Amadeus’ travel sellers distribution strategy in North America
- Draft and negotiate contracts, including ones with Amadeus’ largest multinational travel seller customers and partners in North America
- Draft and negotiate corporate travel IT direct agreements with corporate customers, with particular focus on supporting negotiations with key strategic customers in North America
- Provide support and advice to the corporate travel IT business with responses to RFPs for corporate customers and government entities in North America
- Provide timely and strategic legal advice and support to the downstream Travel Distribution commercial teams, with a special focus on North American travel seller and corporate customers
- Support the Travel Distribution strategy & business development team in building a rich ecosystem of technology solutions for the travel industry and the execution of Amadeus’ Go-To-Market strategy in North America
- Develop, implement, train and oversee Amadeus Group policies and procedures regarding commercial, legal and regulatory matters, with adaptation to local market needs
- Support achievement of business objectives of MetaConnect vis-à-vis metasearchers and airlines
- Together with airline distribution strategy analyze expansion of metaconnect products to other travel sellers including OTAs
- Support the Amadeus Group Corporate Compliance team to strengthen the corporate governance of Amadeus Group companies and distribution partners in the Americas, with special focus on North America
- Draft, negotiate and manage joint-venture, distributor and other commercial agreements
- Structure transactions and analysis of relevant regulatory environment, including international sanctions, anti-trust and data protection
- Liaise with external counsel and procure input and advice when supporting Amadeus’ business strategy
- Claims handling for allocated areas including pre-claim, ongoing management, settlement, arbitration and litigation
- Support the digital transformation of sales to service processes with focus on implementation and maintenance of contract lifecycle management tools
- Support the Americas LEG team on special projects ensuring timely and effective reporting of critical issues
- Implement best practices to drive transformation, operational effectiveness and efficiencies in the LEG function in the Americas.
Application process
- End Date: February 27, 2025
- The application process takes no longer than 10 minutes!
- Create your candidate profile, upload your Resume/CV and apply today!
Our take
Legacy Spanish travel and tourism IT provider Amadeus has been working in the industry since 1987 when it was originally founded as a European global distribution system (GDS) for airlines. Now its software connects travellers to journeys via agents, search engines, tour operators, accommodation, and transport.
Having diversified in the mid-noughties to match the evolution in digital technology, Amadeus now powers business analytics and software solutions for 16 sides of the travel industry and with 6 business tools. It doesn’t spread itself thin either, with more than 15,000 employees across the world and growth still in motion.
Amadeus continues to solidify its position as a leader in the travel and hospitality tech sectors, evidenced by its strong financial performance in the second quarter of 2024. The company's significant revenue growth, strategic acquisitions, and partnerships underscore its commitment to innovation and expansion and it doesn't plan to slow down anytime soon.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
San Pascual, Madrid, Spain
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Leadership
Luis Maroto
(CEO & President)Previously Deputy CEO and CFO at Amadeus before becoming the President and CEO in 2011. They also worked as a Corporate Support Functions Director at Grupo Bertelsmann.
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