Legal Counsel

Legal Counsel

Serve as Legal Counsel supporting Hospitality Travel Intelligence business unit. Support the Travel Intelligence business unit as the first level legal advisor, including supporting for the Travel Intelligence partnership team, data governance matters, and commercial contracting activities. Draft and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements, including SaaS, data licensing, technology partner, and data distribution agreements. Provide clear, pragmatic legal advice to senior business stakeholders, contribute to the review and launch of new products, and support Go-To-Market and product strategies. Manage legal aspects of partner and vendor relationships, including support on strategic partnerships. Advise on applicable regulatory and compliance frameworks. Provide day-to-day legal support across the business by actively engaging across the organization, including product, sales, account management, order management, VISTA, finance, R&D, operations, CISO, Risk and Complaince, IP, Group Privacy Unit, regulatory team. Provide legal support for cross-functional initiatives that expand Travel Intelligence offerings across Travel Unit and Travel Distribution customer segments, ensuring alignment with broader commercial and strategic objectives. Lead the coordination on compliance, data privacy, and data governance matters as they relate to the Travel Intelligence business; exercise discretion in keeping HOS Legal leadership informed of any relevant matters. Provide practical business-oriented solutions to complex legal issues. Manage competing priorities and multi-task in a fast-paced, demanding environment. Business Support

As a Legal Counsel your role will be to: Business Support Act as legal counsel supporting the fast-growing business area of Travel Intelligence with its wide ranging service offering, by providing tailored legal advice throughout the complete product lifecycle. Collaborate closely and provide strategic advice to the counsel leading the Destinations & More Sales area with particular focus on data governance and commercialization to support its transversal expansion into broader customer segments, including drafting and negotiating of a variety of commercial agreements (e.g., Data as a Service agreements, distribution agreements, technology partner agreements, SaaS agreements). Keep abreast of the evolution of the applicable Regulatory and industry landscape in order to provide forward-looking advice to HOS Legal leadership in order to mitigate potential detrimental impacts on Amadeus. Provide solution-oriented, responsive and commercially-practical legal advice, while mitigating legal risks and exposure. Develop and present legal positions and negotiations strategies for high-value and high-visibility deals to HOS Legal and Business leadership. Pro-actively liaise internally to ensure all escalations and approvals are obtained throughout all processes. Role includes direct and significant interfacing and negotiating with HOS mid and senior level business and product teams and external lawyers; the Employee is expected to pro-actively consult with other support units in Legal (Regulatory, IP, Privacy, Data Governance, etc.) as necessary to advance (strategic) product developments and contract negotiations. In-depth understanding of the broad product suite. Risk and Compliance support

Own the monitoring and prompt revision of all relevant contract templates to adapt to changes in the product, partner and vendor, industry or regulatory landscape. Ensure HOS Legal leadership is aware and aligned with such revisions. Lead relevant compliance and risk management initiatives related to business areas supported and elevate to senior HOS Legal leadership as required. Ensure Amadeus general and Hospitality-specific policies and standards are maintained and enforced consistently. Liaise and collaborate with Amadeus Privacy, Risk & Compliance, Data Governance, and CISO teams to ensure uniform enforcement of policies and minimization of risk. These activities also require appropriate levels of knowledge sharing with other legal team members, especially the General Counsel and Deputy General Counsel. Take a leading role compliance-related projects as they arise and keep HOS Legal leadership sufficiently informed about the progress of such projects. Exercise sound judgement and discretion on risk acceptance and escalation to HOS Legal leadership where appropriate. Internal customer support

Serve as trusted legal advisor to the supported business areas. Review and respond to a variety of questions from the business and keeping the overall Hospitality strategy at mind while providing such advice. Support and liaise with various internal areas, including product, sales, account management, CISO, operations, technology and engineering, marketing, finance, delivery, customer care, order management and communications as well as Legal colleagues in TRU and TRD