Legal Assistant - New York, United States - HelloFresh

HelloFresh

Verified Company

New York, United States

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

At HelloFresh, we want to change the way people eat forever by offering our customers high-quality food and recipes for different meal occasions.

Over the past 10 years, we've seen this mission spread around the world and beyond our wildest dreams.

Now, we are a global food solutions group and the world's leading meal kit company, active in 18 countries across 3 continents.

So, how did we do it? Our weekly boxes full of exciting recipes and fresh ingredients have blossomed into a community of customers looking for delicious, healthy, and sustainable options.

The HelloFresh Group now includes our core brand, HelloFresh, as well as:
Green Chef, EveryPlate, Chefs Plate, Factor_, and Youfoodz.

HelloFresh is seeking to hire a driven, energetic, and organized Legal Assistant to join our Legal team. This is a unique opportunity to join a dynamic ecommerce company and be involved in a wide range of legal matters across different practice areas, most especially in employment and human resources. You will work closely with all members of the legal team to support the company's commercial, corporate, employment, regulatory, marketing and strategic initiatives.

You will

Work alongside paralegals to support attorneys with daytoday administrative processes across legal work streams.
Manage and maintain Company's contract management system, including assigning new requests.
Aid in organizing and updating legal department template documents.
Monitor legal mailboxes and ensure requests are routed to the appropriate internal team members and business partners.
Draft and prepare basic legal correspondence and contracts such as NDAs, Exhibits, Talent and Influencer Agreements, etc.
Help to ensure contracts are sent out in a timely manner, fully executed and stored properly.
Assist with facilitating the intake and onboarding of new vendors.
Assist in the maintenance of corporate filings, business licenses and permits.
Conduct legal research and help facilitate responses to internal queries.
Perform other special assignments and strategic projects as needed.

You are

Intellectually curious.
An excellent communicator with outstanding written and verbal skills.
Highly organized, proactive, remarkably accurate and able to adhere to strict deadlines.
Extremely detailoriented, process driven and agile.
A multitasker with an exceptional ability to prioritize, think quickly, problem solve and work autonomously.
A team player, who is able to effectively partner with business stakeholders to address business needs.

At a minimum, you have...

A Bachelor of Art/Science degree with outstanding academic credentials from an accredited university.
High proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and Google Suite (Gmail, Google Drive, Sheets, Docs, etc).
Excellent writing and oral communications skills.
Experience using a contract management platform (_preferred_).
34 years of legal assistant experience in a law firm or inhouse legal department, with a specialization in employment law and litigation (_preferred_).

It is the policy of HelloFresh not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or because they are a protected veteran.

New York Pay Range
$25—$25 USDAbout HelloFresh

We believe that sharing a meal brings people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures together. We are committed to celebrating all dimensions of diversity in the workplace equally and ensuring that everyone feels a sense of inclusion and belonging. We also aim to extend this commitment to the partners we work with and the communities we serve. We are constantly listening, learning, and evolving to deliver on these principles. We are proud of our collaborative culture. Our diverse employee population enables us to connect with our customers and turn their feedback into meaningful action from developing new recipes to constantly improving our process of getting dinner to our customers' homes. Our culture attracts top talent with shared values and forms the foundation for a great place to work

To learn more about what it's like working inside HelloFresh, follow us on Instagram and LinkedIn.