Legal Counsel, Flink

Labour Law

Salary not provided
Entry and Junior level
Berlin
Flink

Grocery delivery service

Open for applications

Flink

Grocery delivery service

1001+ employees

B2CFoodConsumer GoodsDeliveryeCommerce

Open for applications

Salary not provided
Entry and Junior level
Berlin

1001+ employees

B2CFoodConsumer GoodsDeliveryeCommerce

Company mission

To deliver organic fresh fruit, vegetables, and other groceries directly to the homes of customers, within 10 minutes, at supermarket prices.

Role

Who you are

  • Fully qualified lawyer in Germany
  • Both state examinations with the grade “satisfactory” (“befriedigend”)
  • Zero to two years of professional experience in employment and labour law, either in an international law firm, a labour law boutique or as an in-house counsel
  • Extensive experience in handling of labour law court proceedings
  • Independent, self-reliant style of working, high resilience, team player
  • Pragmatic approach and hands-on mentality
  • Strong communication skills, high social competence, negotiation skills and assertiveness
  • Fluent in written and spoken English and German

What the job involves

  • In your role as Legal Counsel (m/f/d) at Flink you will play a pivotal role in all labour law-related cases and issues across Germany
  • Provide advise to internal stakeholders but particularly our People department but also all other departments in all aspects of employment and labour law
  • Draft employment contracts, corresponding supplementary agreements and HR-Policies
  • Attend labour law court proceedings overall in Germany
  • Observe changes in employment and labour law regulation and jurisdiction and implement them appropriately within Flink
  • Elaborate labour and employment law training for our People Department on a regular basis

Our take

Online grocery delivery services in Europe range from early supermarket-specific services to the more recent success of mobile food-ordering applications. However despite thier proliferation grocery delivery services still face long waiting lists and logistic bottlenecks, with faster solutions coming with a compromise on the range and quality of products.

Flink provides an online website and mobile application for the delivery of fresh fruit, vegetables, and other organic-quality groceries to European homes. The company provides its services to 100 different European cities across Germany, the Netherlands and France, and claims that its grocery deliveries are provided at supermarket prices within 10 minutes of ordering.

Flink is one of the few remaining independent grocery delivery startups in Europe, with most of the others either having been acquired or shut down. German rival Gorillas for instance ate through its initial investments and was taken over in 2022. Flink has been playing a more conservative strategy, aiming for more steady growth, but had to receive a fresh investment round of 100 million euros in 2024 to help it outlast competitors. Rumors of a potential merger with competitor companies indicate the lengths that Flink is going to maintain its dominance in a market that, at present, is suffering from lower demand and higher costs.

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346% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Apr 2024

$111m

LATE VC

May 2023

$166.4m

LATE VC

Total funding: $1.3bn

Company benefits

  • A good salary and fringe benefits
  • A start-up environment with growth opportunities
  • An environment where you have a lot of impact, and where your ideas immediately become reality
  • A young and dynamic team
  • A flexible employer
  • 20% discount on your own Flink groceries

Company HQ

Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany

Founders

Oliver Merkel

(MD)

Partner at Bain & Company. Co-founded Flink in December 2020.

Consultant at Bain & Company before founding foodora, where they served as MD and Global CMO. Also served as CMO at Rappi.

Began career at Adidas before becoming Manager Director at fashion4home GmbH.

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