EMEA Regulatory Legal Counsel FedEx Brussels, Belgium

FedEx provides customers and businesses worldwide with a broad portfolio of transportation, e-commerce and business services. Consistently ranked among the world's most admired and trusted employers, FedEx inspires its more than 290,000 employees to remain absolutely, positively focused on safety, the highest ethical and professional standards and the needs of their customers and communities.

FedEx Express invented express distribution and remains the industry’s global leader, providing rapid, reliable, time-definite delivery to more than 220 countries and territories, connecting markets that comprise more than 90 percent of the world’s gross domestic product within one to three business days. Unmatched air route authorities and transportation infrastructure, combined with leading-edge information technologies, make FedEx Express the world’s largest express transportation company, providing fast and reliable services for more than 3.6 million shipments each business day.

FedEx Express now requires an EMEA Regulatory Legal Counsel to be based at the regional headquarters in Brussels. Reporting to the Managing Director for Legal and Regulatory Affairs, the role will be broad ranging and include the following:

• Follow up on all regulatory developments affecting or potentially affecting the operation of the enterprise and its strategic plans;
• Counsel the various business functions towards the development of implementation programs;
• Advocate the positions of the enterprise in trade associations and, as needed, before national, European or other authorities;
• Coordinate the company’s regulatory and public affairs programs throughout the EU and, as necessary, throughout EMEA;
• Develop and maintain a network both within and outside the enterprise in function of the responsibilities;
• Work closely with the EMEA legal team and provide support where needed.

You hold a law degree (preferably from a European jurisdiction) and ideally you will have gained at least 7 years of relevant professional experience as In-house Counsel, Private Attorney or in a public affairs capacity and have extensive knowledge and expertise in the international and EU regulatory framework for aviation (a knowledge of the regulatory framework for land transport is a plus). In addition, FedEx expects the candidate to have the ability to work on her/his own initiative, to be a strategic thinker and to have excellent interpersonal skills.

To find out more in confidence, please contact our exclusive consultant, Tanja Albers of Laurence Simons International. All direct and third party applications will be forward to Laurence Simons International for consideration.

Tanja Albers
Tanja.albers@laurencesimons.com
+31 (0)20 520 6812