Do you want to lead and shape the legal direction of a global company that aspires to do more than just business - ensuring our growth is responsible, sustainable, and guided by the highest integrity?

If so, we are confident you will thrive our Head of Legal at ABENA!

Since 1953, our commitment to delivering quality of life has been the driving force behind ABENA.

We are an innovative and constantly growing company with a strong international presence and a passionate organization focused on results. Our values - Trust, Fairness, and Cooperation - reflect our promise to our customers and to each other: to deliver quality of life, always with sustainability in mind.

To support our ambitious agenda, we are now seeking a strategic and operational Head of Legal who will play a crucial role in defining and advancing our legal practices. As our new Head of Legal, you will be the company’s most important legal sparring partner and a close advisor to executive management. This is a role where you combine hands-on execution with strategic aspects and, as a part of the leadership team, have direct influence on the decisions that shape the company’s future.

You will be responsible for building, leading, and developing a legal function of four specialists with diverse backgrounds, ensuring that ABENA operates safely, efficiently, and in full compliance. Your scope will include corporate law matters and M&A, competition law, intellectual property law, and marketing law with a focus on greenwashing risks - ensuring ABENA’s legal foundation supports responsible growth and protects our brand and innovation.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Define and drive the overall legal strategy in alignment with ABENA’s business priorities, while building and leading a strong global Legal function.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a small team of lawyers and legal professionals, providing sparring, expertise, and guidance to support both professional excellence and personal growth.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the executive management team on legal, regulatory, and corporate governance matters, ensuring sound decision-making and responsible growth.
• Draft, review, and negotiate complex agreements, partnerships, and contracts supporting business priorities.
• Establish and maintain a robust compliance and risk management framework, including responsibility for data protection (GDPR), cybersecurity regulations (NIS2), and other relevant legislation across jurisdictions.
• Safeguard and manage ABENA’s intellectual property rights, including registration, protection, and handling of potential infringements across key markets.
• Identify and manage legal risks, including responsibility for disputes and litigation.
• Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders while supporting ABENA’s digital and global transformation.

Success in this role depends on your ability to embrace the wide variety of legal matters and responsibilities that land on your desk, while maintaining a strong commercial mindset and navigating business priorities with confidence. It requires the capacity to balance and manage diverse stakeholders, ensuring alignment across the organization. Equally important is the ability to adapt to change, matching the complexity of a global environment with a flexible and forward-looking mindset.

What we hope you bring

We are looking for a seasoned legal leader with strong strategic acumen and a solid business mindset. You combine sharp legal expertise with the ability to act as a trusted advisor to executive management, balancing hands-on legal detail with high-level guidance that supports the company’s long-term goals.

• You hold a Master of Laws degree and have a solid and proven track record of professional experience as an in-house lawyer in a global setup, and preferably also experience as an attorney-at-law.
• Solid professional background with proven expertise, including significant experience in leadership roles and responsibility for people, projects, or strategic initiatives.
• Extensive experience in corporate law, commercial law, and regulatory matters, including advising on compliance, governance structures, and the legal aspects of complex business transactions.
• You foster strong collaboration across diverse teams, cultures, and contexts, creating constructive relationships through a positive and inclusive approach.
• You communicate complex matters with clarity and precision, tailoring messages to different business needs while building trustful relationships with stakeholders at all levels, including top management.

Your Team, Our Culture and Values

At ABENA, we combine professionalism with a warm, people-first culture where collaboration, curiosity, and continuous improvement are necessary parts of everyday life. We take pride in delivering high-quality work with integrity, guided by our core values of trust, fairness, and cooperation. These values shape how we lead, support one another, wand create meaningful impact for our customers and communities.

As part of our ambitious and innovative leadership team, you will join colleagues who value collaboration and forward-thinking. In this role, you will have significant influence and direct access to executive management, ensuring your voice is heard at the highest levels of the organization. Your ideas and results will have a real impact here, and you help shape the future and drive meaningful change at ABENA.

We look forward to receiving your application

If you are interested in the position, please send your CV as soon as possible. We review applications as we receive them and will close the search once we have found our new colleague.

If you are curious to know more about the job, you are welcome to contact either CFO Carsten Krog at +45 5158 1815 or Head of Legal Kirstine Marie Krag Andreasen at +45 5158 1789.

At ABENA, your work matters. Every day, we create solutions that improve quality of life for people and communities. With more than 2,000 colleagues serving customers in over 90 markets across healthcare, industry, and retail, we are united by a shared commitment to responsibility and care.

As a family-owned company with a strong global presence, we are built on trust, fairness, and cooperation — values that guide how we support one another and grow together. Here, you’ll find room to explore your potential, develop new skills, and make a meaningful difference.

Join us, and shape a career that truly makes an impact.

BECAUSE WE CARE 

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