Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of our Brands.

As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world's leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through five-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable.

Role description

Booking Holdings Inc. is looking for an experienced lawyer to join our Legal Team as Fintech Procurement Counsel to provide global legal support from our Center of Excellence (COE) located in Bucharest, Romania.

The successful candidate will advise on a range of commercial and technology contracts related to our expanding payments and financial services activities, act as a trusted advisor to our business as well advise on a variety of other contracts and projects supporting the Booking Holdings Legal team.

This is a great opportunity for a collaborative, agile and creative legal counsel to help develop, launch, and enable our mission to deliver a world-class payments operation to support our global brands. As you do so, you will advise on a range of legal questions related to our commercial strategy, demonstrating your familiarity with global financial services, regulatory contexts and the industry commercial considerations that enable payment services at this scale.

This role provides a hybrid way of working with an onsite presence of 2 days/week.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Manage a diverse range of procurement agreements for Booking Holdings, which may be used by our global subsidiaries, with a focus on: regulatory & compliance vendors, financial systems vendors, tech consulting and professional services and marketing/IT vendors;

• Provide advice on legal questions needed to unlock challenges and move commercial agreements forward;

• Draft and negotiate procurement agreements, leveraging our own precedents and templates where appropriate and working with third party paper in other contexts, and managing the process from inception through to signature;

• Work directly and regularly with the procurement team, relevant stakeholders, and the wider global business as a reliable and commercial-minded legal point of contact;

• Master applicable processes and guidelines relating to contract intake and review and provide support to the Booking Holdings' Legal team in order to update and implement such processes and guidelines;

• Be well-structured, clear and organized, with an ability to prioritize and drive progress within a very fast paced environment;

• Attend and contribute to the regular meetings of the Booking Holdings' Legal team and other attorneys and key subject matter experts at affiliated brands;

• Demonstrate a collaborative approach to getting the job done, with a range of stakeholders both within the business and externally;

• Develop and deliver guidance documents and training material for teams within the business;

• Other related responsibilities supporting the Booking Holdings Legal team as needed, including but not limited to creating vendor contracting playbooks, templates, and applicable policies, assisting with training the business, subsidiary-related commercial projects, intercompany arrangements, etc.

Role Qualifications and Requirements

Legal, regulatory and negotiation skills:

• EU law degree

• At least 5 years' experience in a reputable law firm and/or in-house team

• Relevant post-qualification experience (in-house or private practice) and strong technical knowledge and drafting experience related to commercial contracts, including complex partnerships with compliance vendors, outsourcing relationships and other technology and vendor contracting.

• Experience advising on these types of agreements in the financial services industry context (including exposure to the EBA outsourcing regime and DORA) would be a significant advantage.

• Knowledge of global privacy legal regulations and requirements and familiarity with privacy provisions in agreements is advantageous.

• Familiarity with English law, US law and Dutch law contracts would be a plus.

Communications & Organizational Skills:

• Fluency in English - Ability to work and communicate directly in English is essential.

• Very strong organizational and project management skills. Capable of handling multiple projects and initiatives simultaneously and performing to completion.

• A natural problem-solver and strategic thinker, comfortable with ambiguity and able to bring structure to challenging situations, whilst maintaining orderly records.

• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex issues in an easy-to-understand manner.

• Strong negotiation skills

• Ability to work well with colleagues around the world and manage with ease both time-sensitive and long-term projects.

• Problem-solving skills, collaboration and contribution skills, ability to influence, communications, consulting, and team/interpersonal skills.

• Ability to work collaboratively with others from any functional area, background, or location to influence thinking, and gain acceptance.

• Ability to comfortably work with both technical and non-technical audiences and to work with and through all levels in an organization.

Other Skills:

• International experience: Self-awareness of communication style and cultural differences.

• Consultative style: Ability to formulate and articulate a perspective and present it in a manner that generates understanding and alignment.

• Self-motivated and capable of operating independently with limited oversight. Strong sense of personal accountability for work tasks.

• Comfort dealing with ambiguity and a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment

• Assertive, intellectually curious and self starter personality

Benefits & Perks

• Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide

• Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture

• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation

• Competitive compensation and benefits package

• Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users

Booking Holdings is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.

Pre-Employment Screening

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.