Regional Legal Counsel / META

Empowering Business Through Trusted Legal Guidance

The role provides regional legal and compliance support across the META region, acting as a trusted business partner to regional and country management and supporting multiple legal entities.

You will be reporting to Head of Legal & Compliance, META.

What You'll do

General Legal Support:

• Provide legal advice across the META region on corporate, commercial and regulatory matters, including customer, suppliers, service providers and project contracts.
• Act as a regional legal business partner to management and sales, supporting commercial negotiations, strategic initiatives and key projects.
• Provide legal risk assessment and pragmatic, business-focused advice across regional operations, including assisting in handling customer complaints and product recalls.
• Advise on employment law, data protection, product liability and other general legal matters at regional level, coordinating with external counsel where required.
• Provide regional oversight on corporate governance for META legal entities, including key corporate actions and engagement with external counsel.
• Coordinate and support regional banking, financing and treasury-related legal matters.
• Steer regional commercial contracting frameworks to ensure consistent application of Group standards across customer and supplier arrangements.

• Provide regional legal and compliance advice in line with Hilti Group requirements, with focus on anti-corruption, antitrust, fraud prevention, conflicts of interest, AML, export/sanctions compliance, data protection, human rights and product regulatory compliance.
• Coordinate implementation of compliance policies, controls and initiatives across countries
• Promote a strong culture of integrity and compliance through guidance, training and management support.

• Supervise court, tribunal and mediation proceedings.
• Manage and escalate material legal and compliance risks at regional level
• Select, instruct and manage external counsel across jurisdictions, including cost and quality oversight.

• Interface between Regional Legal & Compliance Team and Corporate Legal & Compliance Team
• Support rollout of global contract concepts (sales, service, software and sourcing) and localization of contracts according to local law requirements, and also global / regional legal initiatives.
• Coordinate closely with regional stakeholders to ensure legally sound and commercially pragmatic execution of regional initiatives and act as escalation point for complex or high-risk matters.

• Oversee corporate housekeeping for META legal entities and conduct training for management and business teams.
• Drive continuous improvement of regional legal processes, templates and controls, including contract lifecycle management and knowledge sharing across countries.

What You’ll Bring

• Fully qualified lawyer with at least 10 years of relevant work experience in an international law firm and/or legal department of a multinational company.
• An advanced degree such as an LL.M. or MBA is required.
• Proven experience in a regional or multi-country legal role.
• Strong expertise in corporate governance, commercial contracting and banking / financing matters.
• Relevant experience in a related industry sector (construction / oil & gas industry) is advantageous.
• Entrepreneurial and target-oriented way of thinking; team player with self-dependent working-style, takes a principal stand and does the right thing even if one encounters resistance.
• Excellent in spoken and written English and Turkish and strong communication skills and capable in communicating across different functions/departments.
• Ability to manage different stakeholders and multiple tasks and deadline under pressure.
• Well-versed in IT software & technology like MS Office, etc.
• Curious in understanding business, high learning agility and a vision to help institutionalize the legal & compliance function.

What’s In It for You

We really value our people, and we've worked hard to develop a reward package that reflects this, creating your future to be just how you would want it. Some of our benefits include:

A caring and performance-oriented culture.
A recognised Great Place to Work 2025, which celebrates our commitment to a culture that values care, performance, and innovation for our greatest strength, our people.
Comprehensive career development opportunities that ensure your success is our priority.

Why Hilti

Hilti is a global leader in construction innovation, with more than 34,000 team members across 120 countries. Guided by our purpose, Making Construction Better, we’re driven to keep learning, growing, and finding new ways to make a lasting impact. Here, you’ll be empowered to use your strengths, work with a global and inclusive team, and take on meaningful challenges. At Hilti, you’ll have the chance to make your ideas, achievements, and growth real through purpose, passion, and teamwork.

Commitment to Inclusion

At Hilti, inclusion is a key focus in how we work, lead, and grow together. We are committed to embracing diversity of thought and creating an environment that is inclusive of everyone, everywhere. We continuously strive to ensure every voice is valued and every team member feels empowered to contribute. By building on this foundation, we strengthen our teams, our innovation, and our impact, making construction better together.

📌 Important Information Before Submitting Your Application

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Every application is carefully reviewed by our dedicated Talent Acquisition team. We truly value your interest and take the time to consider each candidate thoroughly.
Our end-to-end hiring process typically takes 4 to 8 weeks. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the next steps.
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