Join Rolls-Royce as an Associate Legal Counsel (Commercial Contracting) in Kraków, Poland. In this full-time, hybrid role (minimum 2 days in-office), you will provide practical, timely legal support across supplier and customer contracting, draft and negotiate agreements, and help shape technology-enabled legal services within a global team.
Requirements
A law degree (Polish Magister Prawa or equivalent) with a sound foundation in contract law.
Fluent written and spoken English, including legal English.
Relevant commercial contracting experience, ideally 3+ years (candidates with less experience considered if they demonstrate required skills).
Preferred: Experience with procurement, supply-chain, or customer contracts, exposure to English-law or common-law contracts, and in-house legal team background.
Skills & Responsibilities
Contract drafting and review: Produce clear drafts, mark-ups, and interpret contractual obligations using approved templates and playbooks.
Negotiation support: Prepare legal positions, clause comparisons, and fallback options that account for commercial objectives.
Risk identification: Recognise material legal and commercial issues early and contribute to concise escalation briefs.
Process improvement: Help improve templates, playbooks, and technology-enabled workflows, including responsible AI use.
Potential transition routes: People from commercial law firms or contract manager roles may bring strong contract drafting and negotiation skills, alongside meeting mandatory legal qualifications and English fluency.
Job description
Job Description
Associate Legal Counsel (Commercial Contracting)
Kraków, Poland
Full time
Why join Rolls-Royce?
At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.
By joining Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.
As Associate Legal Counsel (Commercial Contracting), you will join a growing legal team in the Rolls-Royce Global Capability Centre in Kraków, working as part of our global General Counsel function. You will provide practical, timely legal support across supplier and customer contracting, including drafting and negotiation and interpreting existing agreements. You will progress allocated work with proportionate supervision, using feedback to build your expertise and progressively assume greater responsibility, while helping shape a new, technology-enabled way of delivering legal services.
You will support contracting activity across Rolls-Royce businesses and functions, working with Procurement, customer-facing teams and General Counsel colleagues. The portfolio will include supplier and customer agreements, with exposure to international stakeholders and complex commercial contracting matters.
What you will be doing:
Draft, review and interpret contracts: Support procurement and customer contracting, including new agreements, renewals and amendments. With proportionate supervision, use approved templates and playbooks to produce clear drafts and mark-ups, interpret contractual obligations and provide practical, timely legal advice that colleagues can understand and use
Support negotiations: Work with procurement and customer-facing colleagues as part of a cohesive and collaborative Rolls-Royce team. Prepare legal positions, clause comparisons and workable fallback options that take account of commercial objectives. Work within agreed scope and authority, identifying associated legal risks and issues for review
Progress matters with sound judgement: Establish the facts, commercial context, dependencies and deadlines and apply the relevant contracting requirements. Organise and prioritise allocated work, keep colleagues informed of progress and seek guidance when required
Identify and escalate risk: Recognise material legal and commercial issues, uncertainties and urgent deadlines early. Contribute to concise, decision-ready escalation briefs setting out the issue, options and recommendation, with support from senior colleagues
Collaborate and develop: Build trusted relationships across General Counsel, Procurement and Customer contracting teams, communicating clearly and working constructively with colleagues. Seek guidance and use feedback to build expertise and progressively assume greater responsibility within agreed scope and authority
Improve how we work: Keep accurate matter and decision records, protect privilege and confidentiality, share learning and help improve templates, playbooks and technology-enabled workflows, including the responsible use of AI. Share learning and contribute to practical guidance and training materials with support from senior colleagues
Position requirements:
A law degree (Polish Magister Prawa or equivalent international law degree), and a sound foundation in contract law. Candidates approaching professional legal qualification may be considered where appropriate
Fluent written and spoken English, including legal English, with clear drafting, interpretation, analysis and communication skills
Relevant commercial contracting experience, ideally 3+ years. Candidates with less experience will also be considered where they can demonstrate the drafting, analysis and judgement needed for the role
Preferred qualifications and experience:
Experience with procurement, supply-chain, customer or complex industrial contracts, ideally within a multinational organisation
Exposure to English-law or other common-law commercial contracts; an England and Wales practising certificate is welcome but not essential
Experience in an in-house legal team, legal operations, shared services or a centre of excellence
Commercial curiosity and judgement, with the ability to understand business priorities, explain legal issues clearly and work collaboratively on practical solutions. An interest in responsible technology-enabled legal delivery
Experience in either German or New York law contracting is welcome but not essentialundefined
What do we offer:
Annual bonus based on financial results and employee performance evaluation
Employer financed private healthcare at LuxMed for employees. Additional packages can be purchased
Group life insurance
Subsidy for glasses/contact lenses worn for work, up to the amount of PLN 600 gross, every two years
Subsidy for extra-curricular activities within the cafeteria system on the myBenefit platform/subsidy for Multisport cards, up to the amount of PLN 100 gross per month
Internet and electricity allowance for remote work, in the amount of PLN 100 gross per month
Increased funding for the Employee Capital Plans (PPK) program; Rolls-Royce Sp. z o.o. contributes 3% to this program
Additional vacation days based on length of service
Hybrid work model (min. 2 days from office)
Work in a modern office located in the Krakow center – the Unity Tower (ul. Lubomirskiego 20)
The Kraków Rolls-Royce Global Capability Centre represents an exciting new chapter in the growth of Rolls-Royce Group Business Services. Designed to support global operations and employee services, the Centre is a key hub for enabling operational efficiency and strengthening global business processes. It delivers exceptional services across finance, procurement, HR, Data Analytics and Service Management.
Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.
Rolls-Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
