Head of Corporate & M&A

Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you.

We’re a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience. Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

This role supports JET's structural and inorganic growth agenda by improving legal execution on transactions and related corporate matters. It helps leadership move through complex projects with stronger governance, clearer risk management and more reliable implementation.

Location: This role can be based in Amsterdam, London, or Berlin. Reporting to: Director of Legal

These are some of the key components to the position:

• Lead and develop a Corporate and M&A legal team, combining strategic leadership with hands-on delivery, with corporate and governance work forming the core of the role.
• Manage the legal health of the group's holding and operating entities across jurisdictions, including entity governance, corporate approvals and resolutions, and board and shareholder matters.
• Lead corporate reorganisations, intra-group arrangements, legal-entity rationalisation and general corporate advisory across the group.
• Develop and maintain group governance frameworks, standards, templates and playbooks that keep corporate execution consistent across markets.
• Lead the adoption of automation and AI to streamline governance, corporate resolutions, entity management and other recurring corporate processes.
• Lead legal delivery on M&A and strategic transactions, cross-border acquisitions, divestments, joint ventures, business-line expansions and entity closures, across structuring, due diligence, drafting, negotiation, signing and integration.
• Advise on transaction strategy, risk allocation and merger-control and clearance considerations, coordinating external counsel and the competition team.

What will you bring to the team?

• Qualified lawyer with strong post-qualification experience across both corporate law and M&A, with genuine depth in corporate and governance work, comfortable leading strategy while remaining hands-on in a small team, is required.
• Experience managing holding and operating entities, corporate governance, board and shareholder matters and general corporate legal work across multiple jurisdictions is required.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-border M&A, divestments, joint ventures, business-line expansions and entity closures is required.
• Familiarity with merger-control and regulatory clearance processes for transactions is required.
• Appetite and ability to drive automation and AI adoption to streamline governance and recurring corporate processes is required.
• Strong project management, drafting, negotiation and stakeholder management skills with senior and external audiences are required.
• Experience in an international marketplace or platform is preferred

At JET, this is how we play

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.

Being the best at what we do isn’t just about delivering on our strategy. It's a competition for something incredibly valuable – our customers' choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they're picking a side.

At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers’ loyalty, again and again.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, we’re building a customer-first culture which enables us to stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

What else is cooking?

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