Legal Counsel, Compliance & Risk - Global & EMEA

Help shape the future of mobility.

With Aptiv's newly opened Schaffhausen, Switzerland office, you'll be one of 200,000 sharpest minds generating over $17 billion in revenue each year across 48 countries. Through our deep domain expertise, we enable customers to transition to software-defined vehicles with electrified and intelligently linked architectures. Join us as one of our founding members in Switzerland and provide the strategy, service & support our colleagues need as we strive to make our planet safer, greener, and more connected.

As Legal Counsel, Compliance & Risk - Global & EMEA you will be reporting directly to the Vice President, Chief Compliance & Risk Counsel.

Your Role:

• Be an integral part of the global Compliance Team in the Global Legal & Compliance organization, with a particular focus on and control for EMEA compliance.
• Ensuring Aptiv continues to have a robust global compliance program, which includes relevant polices, codes, training and internal communications consistent with Aptiv's Values and dedication to "Do The Right Thing, The Right Way."
• Helping to coordinate governance structure, policies, procedures, and processes related to business ethics, regulatory compliance, and product integrity matters, including Aptiv's Code of Ethical Business Conduct, Supplier Code of Conduct, and Safety & Warranty Advisory Team ("SWAT") process.
• Helping oversee, investigations, reporting and resolution of compliance issues through the Aptiv Drive Line hotline and other mechanisms; as part of that, help to update investigation, reporting and remediation protocols, as well as related record-keeping.
• Partnering with relevant business colleagues to ensure appropriate risk oversight of relationships with 3rd parties, such as customers, suppliers, government officials, and intermediaries.
• Identifying emerging legal risks with potential to impact Aptiv and working with cross-functional teams to form plan to mitigate globally.
• Coordinating consistent legal support to Aptiv's ESG Initiatives, including supply chain compliance and due diligence.
• Helping lead Legal & Compliance Team's training initiatives and internal engagement campaigns.
• Guide Aptiv's compliance goals of ensuring compliance with laws and regulations and reinforcing a speak-up culture.
• Advise on diverse compliance topics and policies, such as conflicts of interest, anti-bribery laws, fair competition and whistleblowing.

• In coordination with the Global Compliance and Commercial Teams support finding strategies for contracting with customers, suppliers and other third parties that maximize contractual benefits and minimize risk.
• Leverage our strategic focus on essential enterprise-wide commercial compliance initiatives.

• 7+ years post qualification experience (PQE)
• Experience in law firm and in a multinational company environment
• Ideally qualified to practice as an attorney in Switzerland
• experience as an attorney advising multinational organizations on complex global matters and transactions
• Experience working in a corporate legal environment with increasing levels of responsibility preferred
• Ability to handle a variety of complex legal matters and identify, anticipate, and develop solutions-oriented strategies that mitigate legal risks, while achieving commercial targets
• Ability to work well independently and guide on projects as part of a global team that manages international transactions and projects in a fast-paced environment
• Experience working on matters involving "cutting edge" technology
• Ability to serve as a business partner and build consensus on complex legal and business issues while viewing legal issues through a business lens
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and ideally in either German, French or Italian