Director Legal and Governance (French/ Spanish/ German

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

As a Director Legal and Governance, you will shape and lead a scalable legal and governance operating model across a portfolio, ensuring high standards, effective risk management, and service excellence. You will partner with senior stakeholders, drive process and technology improvements, oversee governance and compliance activities, and develop high-performing teams. Your work will help strengthen decision-making, improve operational efficiency, and ensure sustainable, compliant growth across supported services.

Your tasks

• Define and maintain standards, KPIs, and controls for the Legal and Governance function across the portfolio.
• Act as a senior escalation point for complex negotiations, disputes, non-standard risks, and governance or compliance issues.
• Drive improvements and adoption of CLM platforms, repositories, workflow tools, automation, reporting, and analytics solutions.
• Partner with senior leaders across procurement, legal, finance, and operations to align operating models and priorities.
• Lead workforce planning, hiring, performance management, retention, and succession planning for delivery teams in Poland.
• Develop leaders and subject matter experts through mentoring, capability building, and succession planning.
• Oversee portfolio-level risk management, governance reporting, audit readiness, remediation tracking, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support transitions, transformation programmes, knowledge management activities, and service expansion while ensuring strong governance and stakeholder engagement.

Your profile

• You hold a Law degree, Master of Laws, JD, or an equivalent legal qualification.
• You bring 15+ years of experience in legal, governance, compliance, or legal operations environments, including responsibility for standards, processes, service delivery, or operating models.
• You have 8+ years of leadership experience managing large teams in shared services, GBS, outsourcing, or multinational delivery environments.
• You have proven expertise in legal operations, governance, compliance, enterprise risk management, and large-scale transformation initiatives.
• You demonstrate strong executive stakeholder management, influencing, negotiation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• You are experienced in process design, optimisation, continuous improvement, data-driven decision-making, and the implementation of scalable operating models.
• You are confident working with legal technology, CLM solutions, reporting tools, analytics platforms, and Microsoft 365 applications.
• You are fluent in English and additionally fluent in French, Spanish, or German.

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.