Legal Counsel

EG A/S

Do you have experience working with governance and compliance in a complex organization? Are you motivated by driving compliance and ISO initiatives ensuring high standards across the business?

Then you might be our next Legal Counsel!

At EG, we continuously strive to develop and improve. As part of this, we have high compliance ambitions including obtaining ISO certifications across selected lines of business, and you will play a key role in ensuring a smooth implementation and successful achievement of the first round of certifications. Going forward, you will contribute to continuously improving ways of working and supporting the organisation’s maturity in this area.

You will work at the intersection of compliance and business, with multiple touchpoints across the organisation.

As Part of the Department

Group Legal & Compliance is divided into two teams. You will be part of the Compliance, Governance and M&A team, whose task is to ensure value-adding legal advice and a high level of compliance in a fast-growing software company.

Group Legal & Compliance consists of 16 full-time lawyers with extensive experience in, among other areas, IT law, data protection law, public procurement law, M&A and corporate governance.

This provides strong opportunities for professional sparring within those fields, and we also place great importance on team spirit and a good sense of humor. Group Legal & Compliance is part of Shared Services, which works across EG and supports the business within multiple areas and across all the Nordics and India.

Your Role: Deliver, Drive, and Elevate Compliance and ISO Practices

You will be responsible for ISO within selected lines of business and provide and receive sparring within this field and drive the ISO agenda across EG.

In addition, you will focus on compliance and governance-related matters, including:

Together with the rest of the team, organize and drive the Compliance Framework.
Draft, implement and update internal policies, procedures and risk assessments in relation to GDPR, NIS2, the AI Act, and related IT regulations.
Conduct internal audits.
Run awareness campaigns on new legislation and new internal policies.
Analyze and assess new requirements/legislation, including ISO, standards like ISO, cybersecurity, data, and artificial intelligence.

You will collaborate closely with our Cybersecurity team and Group Legal & Compliance colleagues and engage with a wide range of stakeholders across EG as well as externally with customers.

Your Profile: A Driven Compliance Professional with ISO experience

We are looking for commercially minded and structured colleague with experience in the ISO field (e.g., 9001, 14001, 27001, 27701) either as consultant / ISO auditor or from working inhouse in an ISO certified business.

Have specialized yourself within governance and compliance.
Have a genuine interest and experience (not mandatory) in tech and tech companies.
Work in a structured manner and have experience in operationalizing complex legislation.
Have experience in stakeholder management across levels in the organization and stakeholder with different backgrounds (tech, IT, finance, legal etc.).

Your educational background is not predestined, but you can have a university degree within law, business law and IT, but the most important matter is that you have experience with the compliance and ISO field and have experience in working with / in a legal department.

What's in it for you?

A professional and business-driven environment with lots of exciting projects and the opportunity.
Super talented and committed colleagues who know that they only get better through collaboration and active knowledge sharing.
A place where we focus on that work should be fun to go to work and in a very flat organization.
Opportunity for personal and professional growth.
Targeted training courses in our EG Academy.

You will be part of the Group Legal & Compliance team with colleagues in the Nordics and India. The role is based in Aarhus or Ballerup, Denmark.

We look forward to hearing from you!

If you would like more information before you apply, please contact Jørgen Holm on +45 2528 3657 or mail [email protected]. We evaluate the applications on an ongoing basis and recruit when the right candidate is found, so please send your CV and application as soon as possible. All inquiries are handled confidentially.

At EG, we develop software for our customers so they can focus on their profession. Our industry-specific software is built by peers from the industry, and backed by the scale of EG for stability, innovation, and security. We are committed to advancing industries by tackling big challenges such as resource use, efficiency, and sustainability.

Join us in creating software that works for people, not software that makes people work.

Visit our career page to meet some of your future colleagues, explore our culture, and watch our video "We Make a Difference".

Learn more about EG here.