Legal Counsel Litigation and Regulatory (f/h)

Job Description:

Take off with Airbus Helicopters!

Airbus Helicopters is looking for a Senior Legal Counsel (m/f) to join the Legal Department based in Marignane, France.

Join us to shape the future of aeronautics and help protect lives during missions accomplished thanks to our helicopters.

The Marignane site, the 3rd largest industrial site in France, near Marseille and Aix-en-Provence, is undergoing a deep transformation to offer a high‑tech, inclusive, and environmentally friendly working environment.

You will live a unique professional experience, at the heart of the manufacturing of our helicopters.

To learn more about our site and our activities: Airbus Helicopters – Marignane.

Your main missions

• Handling of claims and litigations from and towards our suppliers and customers (with support of the Legal Contracts team).
• Deploy and provide training internally on commercial claims, be creative in identifying new ways to increase awareness and become a real partner to internal stakeholders (procurement, sales, …).
• Draft legal risk assessment notes to internal stakeholders.
• Participate in negotiations with suppliers and customers in case of dispute to ensure a resolution of the matter.
• Draft settlement agreements and negotiate such settlements.
• Coordinate with external counsels and internal stakeholders support to any litigation involving Airbus Helicopters including product liability and criminal cases.
• Conduct discoveries for US litigations (document production and depositions).

Your profile

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience as an in‑house or as legal counsel, specialised in contract or litigation.
• Experience in industry and/or abroad is a plus.
• Fluent in English (written and oral – able to negotiate in English).
• Good communication skills.
• Good team player.
• Analytical skills.
• Legal risks management.

Benefits

Professionally and personally you’ll enjoy a world class compensation package, which includes salaries, bonuses, profit‑sharing, participation and preferred share ownership plan, designed to reward the impact and performance you bring, both individually and collectively.

We invest in your complete well‑being: professional development (training, mentoring, international mobility), health coverage, retirement and a commitment to a supported work‑life balance (parental support, flexibility).

Additional daily life benefits include:

• A dynamic CSE (Social and Economic Committee) offering many advantages (company restaurant, children's leisure centre, associations and sports complex, travel allowances, etc.).
• Transport facilities: Take advantage of our company shuttles or the reimbursement of your annual transport pass.

Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief. Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to