Assistant General Counsel, Real Estate & GPS, EMEA

Experience Level: Mid Level | Posted Date: 2025-04-14

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Become a Part of the Nike, Inc. Team

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, challenge boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream, and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders, and visionaries. At NIKE, Inc. it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

NIKE’s rapid pace of innovation demands a Legal team that is ready to create the future of sport. And they’re always on their game – with the mission to advance and guide Nike’s business through innovative, offense-minded counsel. NIKE lawyers, paralegals and other specialists in law provide inventive approaches and superior counsel to NIKE’s global business. As NIKE serves athletes*, the NIKE Legal team drives competition, ingenuity, and integrity in the marketplace.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We are looking for a lawyer to join our EMEA Legal Marketplace as Assistant General Counsel RECON & GPS EMEA. All aspects of NIKE’s business are powered by direct physical and digital relationships with consumers as well as cutting edge office, warehouse, and distribution facilities to support and fuel our workforce.  In this role, you will support NIKE’s EMEA real estate & construction strategy, including landlord and tenant, operational and design matters across our Nike Direct (retail) and GPS (Global Places & Services) teams.

This role is based at NIKE’s European headquarters in Hilversum, the Netherlands.

We need a lawyer with real estate and/or construction law expertise and a pragmatic and efficient business approach.

WHAT WILL YOU WORK ON?

• You will support the expansion and management of NIKE’s EMEA real estate portfolio including supporting the legal aspects of commercial negotiations, negotiating new leases and renewals, land acquisitions and disposals, advising on and negotiating lease amendments, supporting premises closures, giving strategic advice on topics impacting NIKE’s EMEA Real Estate portfolio.
• You will also support the negotiation of construction and design agreements and support legal issues arising during the construction process.
• You will support drafting and creating templates and agreements in collaboration with global colleagues and interact with cross-functional legal teams involved with retail and wholesale distribution of products and serving consumers around the world.
• You will also give strategic advice on innovation in retail space and new and existing business models.
• You will advise and counsel NIKE business leaders on a wide-range of legal, compliance and process issues associated with NIKE’s global one marketplace strategy and providing analysis of legal risks and you will manage external legal counsel and support with the roll-out and maintenance of deal management systems and processes. 

WHO WILL YOU WORK WITH?

Reporting to the Director, Assistant General Counsel RECON & GPS EMEA, you will be part of a small team of EMEA RECON lawyers working closely with real estate, design, construction, and procurement focused business teams: collaborate with other real estate, retail, commercial and digital lawyers across EMEA; collaborate with our colleagues across the globe; advise NIKE business leaders directly; and create and implement solutions structured to efficiently achieve business objectives efficiently. 

WHAT WILL YOU BRING TO NIKE?

• University degree in law and at least 5 years post qualification experience in a law firm or in-house
• Real estate and construction experience, including commercial contract and lease negotiation
• Excellent verbal and written skills in English and the ability to communicate effectively at all levels. Strong working knowledge of another primary European language would be an asset.
• Team player and leader who can enhance performance, improve productivity and get results on tight deadlines
• Bias for action and ability to work independently within a multinational organization  
• Results driven and proven experience leading multiple projects at the same time  
• International experience working in a culturally diverse environment is a plus
• Sound risk assessment capabilities in rapidly evolving regulated areas  
• Demonstrated ability to learn business requirements quickly, analyze legal and commercial risks, and propose creative, business-oriented solutions 
• Hands on mentality
• Publicly held, Fortune-500, multi-national company experience preferred

Application deadline: May 2nd.