Senior Legal Counsel
Textile waste is a growing global challenge. Syre’s mission is to decarbonize and dewaste textiles, starting with the world's biggest fiber, polyester. By implementing true textile-to-textile recycling at hyperscale, we want to drive the transition from a linear to a circular value chain by putting textile waste to use, over and over again.
Are you a savvy and action-oriented legal specialist thriving in a fast-paced environment eager to make a change? Do you seek to be part of a growth journey and contribute to true green impact? Look no further.
Syre is now looking for a Senior Legal Counsel to join our team and to be an important strategic partner to the organization. You will be a pivotal part of the company and its mission, providing legal advice to all key functions and working on commercial agreements, M&A and more. Being part of our small and focused legal team, you will also get the opportunity to build processes and ways of working from scratch.
Key tasks and responsibilities
- Draft and negotiate commercial agreements from A to Z with clients from the apparel-, interior-, and automotive industry
- Collaborating closely with our global commercial team to close long-term offtake agreements across all segments
- Provide strategic legal guidance to the organization at large, when needed
We would prefer if you
- A Degree of Master of Laws
- At least 5-7 years of experience from a law firm and in-house legal department, ideally in a global and fast-paced setting
- Experience from an international scale-up environment and textile industry is a strong plus
- Strong experience negotiating complex commercial agreements
- Fluent in English both orally and in writing (professional English required)
You will be reporting to the General Counsel and should be located in Stockholm, Sweden.
Syre is an international company with a Swedish soul. We are a growing team of scalemakers – dedicated optimists and pioneers, together on a quest to drive the great textile shift. At Syre, we always appreciate it if you would be described as purpose-driven, action-oriented, innovative, change navigator and team player. Our team members are offered an international environment of innovation and speed, and we embrace diversity in all forms. Together we are here to build an impact company with green transition at its core – for our customers, partners, investors, and most of all, for our planet.
Are you the one we’re looking for? Apply with confidence - we look forward to hearing from you (in English)!
- Department
- Legal
- Locations
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Remote status
- Hybrid
About Syre
Syre is a textile impact company on a mission to decarbonize and dewaste the textile industry through textile-to-textile recycling at hyperscale, starting with polyester. At unprecedented speed and scale, Syre aims at driving the green shift of the textile industry to a future where every textile fiber sees a new day. The company’s textile-to-textile recycling solution provides circular polyester with quality on par with virgin polyester, but with a superior sustainability performance.
Founded in 2023, Syre is backed by Vargas and H&M Group.
Senior Legal Counsel
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