Lead Legal Counsel, Nordics (parental leave cover)

Who are Benifex?

💚💜 We are a fast-moving technology company, and one of the most successful providers of online reward and benefits solutions in the world. We believe that everyone deserves an exceptional experience at work, every day, and build workplace technology that makes this happen. Benifex’s mission is to build remarkable experiences that employees love. Today Benifex supports more than five million employees in over 3,000 organisations across more than 100 countries. To help us on our quest to be the best, we need brilliant people on board and that’s where you come in. 🚀

• Take on a senior, highly visible legal role with real influence across the Nordic business and leadership team

• Work hands-on with complex, high-value commercial agreements and negotiations in a fast-paced tech environment

• Be a trusted advisor shaping commercial decisions, risk management, and deal structures across the Nordics

• Combine strategic thinking with practical execution in a role that values clear, pragmatic legal guidance

• Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2025 and Best Large Tech Company to Work for 2025

• Work for a profitable, fast-growing market leader in the online reward and employee benefits space.

Great benefits

⚖️ Guaranteed work-life balance with a fully remote or hybrid working model

🧠 ITP1 pension

❤️ Lifeplan - a leading financial advisory service that offers personalized advice for maximizing your pension savings

📝 Collective agreement

💸 Access to our comprehensive benefits portal.

🤸 Generous wellness allowance

✈️ 30 vacation days / year

💰 Referral bonuses

🙂 Volunteer Days – two paid days annually to give back to the community.

As Lead Legal Counsel Nordics, you will be a key member of both the global legal team and the Nordic leadership team, providing hands-on commercial legal support across the region. The role focuses on commercial, tech, and data protection matters, with a strong emphasis on drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex contracts in a SaaS-driven environment. You will act as a trusted advisor to the business, supporting strategic discussions, client negotiations, and major commercial deals. Reporting to the General Counsel, you will also line manage one Legal Counsel and help strengthen the quality and consistency of commercial agreements across the Nordics.

This is a 12-month fixed-term contract covering a parental leave. The role can be based fully remotely or in a hybrid setup from one of our offices in Stockholm, Gothenburg, or Copenhagen. The preferred start date is May or June, or as soon as possible thereafter.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements, including SaaS, customer, supplier, and public sector contracts

• Lead and support commercial negotiations for larger and more complex deals

• Attend customer meetings to provide legal input during contract discussions and negotiations

• Provide strategic, pragmatic legal advice to stakeholders across the Nordic organisation

• Identify legal risks and propose commercially sound, business-oriented solutions

• Support GDPR, data protection, and broader IT and tech-related legal matters

• Contribute to the development of legal templates, processes, and internal knowledge sharing

• Manage multiple parallel workstreams independently, escalating when appropriate

• Line manage and support one Legal Counsel within the Nordic legal team.

• Minimum 6 years’ experience as a qualified lawyer

• Background from a reputable private practice law firm

• In-house legal experience

• Strong, hands-on experience with commercial contracts and negotiations

• Experience working with Swedish companies and Swedish commercial agreements

• EU-qualified lawyer

• Fluent in both Swedish and English

• Comfortable acting as a senior advisor and challenging stakeholders when needed

• Strong commercial mindset with the ability to constructively challenge the business

• Able to balance strategic thinking with practical, detail-oriented execution.

We want to make the application process as simple and fair as possible. That’s why we don’t ask for a cover letter for this role. Instead, you’ll find a few short questions in the application form. Your answers will help us understand your experience and skills in a more direct and relevant way.

Benifex understands the need to have a fast and efficient process, the below will all be completed in the shortest time possible.

📞 Initial interview with the Talent team. 🧪 Online tests in numeracy and logical reasoning. ⏳ Interview with the hiring manager and a peer. 🤩 Final interview with a senior team member/director.

We look forward to receiving your application!