Director (Legal & Governance, Risk Management, Compliance)

Choosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you’d like, where you’ll be supported and inspired by a collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you’ll be able to reimagine what’s possible. Join us and help the world’s leading organizations unlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world.

Your role

You shape and scale the Legal and Governance operating model across a portfolio, ensuring consistent standards, strong risk management, and effective decision-making. You act as a trusted leader and escalation point, driving process excellence, data‑driven insights, and capability growth. Through collaboration, technology, and continuous improvement, you help teams deliver faster, more reliable outcomes while strengthening governance frameworks and developing future leaders.

Your tasks

• Define and maintain standards, KPIs, and controls for Legal and Governance across the portfolio
• Act as the key escalation point for complex negotiations, disputes, and non-standard risks
• Drive improvements in CLM tools, repositories, automation, reporting, and analytics, ensuring adoption
• Partner with procurement, legal, finance, and operations leaders to align priorities and operating model
• Develop and mentor leaders and subject matter experts, supporting succession planning
• Oversee portfolio-level risk management, ensuring timely identification, escalation, and remediation
• Establish and maintain robust reporting to provide clear insights on risk, performance, and priorities
• Lead standardisation and continuous improvement of legal and governance processes

Your profile

• You bring 15+ years of experience in Legal and Governance, including portfolio ownership or process standardisation at scale
• You demonstrate advanced legal judgement and negotiation expertise, especially in complex or high-risk scenarios
• You have strong experience in enterprise risk, compliance, and controls management
• You excel in stakeholder management, confidently working with senior leaders across functions
• You show a continuous improvement mindset, using data and insights to optimise processes and outcomes
• You are experienced with legal technology and data tools (e.g., CLM systems, reporting and analytics platforms)
• You lead with integrity, accountability, and inclusivity, building trust and developing others
• You hold a degree in Law, Economics, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field

What You'll love about working here

• Well-being culture: medical care with Medicover, private life insurance, and Sports card. But we went one step further by creating our own Capgemini Helpline offering therapeutical support if needed and the educational podcast "Let's talk about wellbeing" which you can listen to on Spotify.
• Access to over 70 training tracks with certification opportunities (e.g., GenAI, Excel, Business Analysis, Project Management) on our NEXT platform. Dive into a world of knowledge with free access to Education First languages platform, TED Talks and Udemy Business materials and trainings.
• Continuous feedback and ongoing performance discussions thanks to our performance management tool GetSuccess supported by a transparent performance management policy.
• Enjoy hybrid working model that fits your life - after completing onboarding, connect work from a modern office with ergonomic work from home, thanks to home office package (including laptop, monitor, and chair). Ask your recruiter about the details.

Get to know us

Capgemini is committed to diversity and inclusion, ensuring fairness in all employment practices. We evaluate individuals based on qualifications and performance, not personal characteristics, striving to create a workplace where everyone can succeed and feel valued.

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About Capgemini

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organizations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of over 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2025 global revenues of €22.5 billion.