Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you.

We’re a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience. Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

As our Deputy General Counsel - Partnerships, you will lead our global legal strategy for partner arrangements, ecosystem expansion, and B2B growth. Embedded in the Legal department, you will empower senior leadership to lead with confidence, deliver high-value strategic deals, and care for our global commercial relationships. In this role, you will shape enterprise risk principles, drive commercial velocity, and build a high-performing legal team in a fast-paced environment.

Location: This role can be based in Amsterdam, London, or Berlin. Reporting to: General Counsel

These are some of the key components to the position:

• Own JET's global legal strategy for strategic commercial arrangements, partner ecosystems, and corporate customer-facing matters.
• Serve as the strategic voice on contract strategy, risk allocation, and negotiation frameworks for major commercial agreements.
• Architect the enterprise approach for partnership disputes, contract escalations, and non-standard deal structures.
• Lead legal strategy for major business development initiatives, integrations, and high-value strategic partnerships.
• Build scalable central legal infrastructure, including templates, negotiation guardrails, and approval processes across markets.
• Define and align partner-facing legal strategy across central functions and regional markets to ensure consistent execution.
• Build and lead a high-performing Partnerships legal team, fostering a culture of commercial impact and continuous development.

What will you bring to the team?

• Deep expertise in international commercial contracts, strategic negotiations, and shaping commercial legal strategy at scale.
• Proven ability to build pragmatic, scalable legal solutions for complex partnerships while balancing risk and commercial velocity.
• Thoughtful judgement on commercial risk, with the confidence to establish risk principles and guide senior stakeholders.
• Exceptional collaboration skills to shape negotiation strategy and align commercial and central teams across matrixed environments.
• Demonstrated success in building central legal infrastructure, including templates and approval architectures, to drive speed.
• Leadership capability to mentor, elevate, and support a team handling high-volume, strategic workloads.
• Strategic acumen supporting complex corporate development, integrations, and transaction coordination frameworks.

At JET, this is how we play

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.

Being the best at what we do isn’t just about delivering on our strategy. It's a competition for something incredibly valuable – our customers' choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they're picking a side.

At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers’ loyalty, again and again.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, we’re building a customer-first culture which enables us to stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

What else is cooking?

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Are you ready to take your seat? Apply now!

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