Legal & Admin Officer

Always wanted to challenge the obvious and make great things happen? At Goodman we create space for your greatness.

As a Legal & Admin Officer at Goodman, you will have below main focus areas:

• you will provide company secretarial guidance for our Belgian and Dutch structures.
• together with other colleagues, you will ensure sound governance of the wider corporate legal entities of the Goodman group and managed investment vehicles. This can also extend to other countries in Europe where Goodman group operations take place (Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, Germany, and France).
• you will also provide support to our legal team in the role of legal assistant. Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, administrative tasks, legal template management, preparing basis legal documentation, and handling KYC requests.
• additionally, you will be part of our office management team, collaborating with the facility officer to help manage the daily operations of the Brussels office and assist with the oversight of our corporate archives.

More concretely, this means you will get the opportunity to:

• • Act as the secretary for the entities within your responsibility:
    1. organizing meetings, preparing agenda, minutes of the meetings, and execution of documents.
    2. liaison with relevant legal, finance and other internal teams.
    3. maintenance of internal records (such as company registers, investor registers, distribution lists,…etc).
  • Ensure the day-to-day corporate housekeeping and good governance of the Belgian and Dutch corporate legal entities (and in other jurisdictions as the case may be) in collaboration with other colleagues in the company secretary team.
  • Assist legal team in administrative tasks, preparation of various documents and organization of the team:
    1. Preparing, amending and uploading latest version of selected legal and contract templates.
    2. Preparing straightforward agreements based on templates (e.g. deeds of adherence, intercompany loans, project management agreements, …).
    3. Handling KYC requests.
    4. Assisting with document execution (docusign, wet ink…)
  • Assistance to our office management team and filing of the documents.
    1. Participate to the reception and front desk management
    2. Management of corporate archives

As part of the role, some travel may be necessary. 

Do you recognize yourself?

• Bachelor’s degree in legal, business administration, paralegal practice (‘Rechtspraktijk”) or other related fields combined with at least 2 years of relevant experience
• Fluent in English and Dutch (verbal and written) are a distinct advantage
• Sound knowledge of the Belgium/Netherlands company law and practices and of the funds industry
• You have a great eye for detail
• You have a keen sense of organization and know how to prioritize

Not sure if you fit the profile? Let’s find out together!

Let’s introduce ourselves a little more:

Goodman owns, develops, and manages modern industrial real estate including logistics facilities, data centres and business parks in strategic locations around the world. In total, we have a team of around 1.000, located across 5 continents. In Continental Europe we are active in 7 countries, including offices in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, München and Paris.

Contrary to traditional organisations where leadership is based on hierarchy, ours is based on individual ownership and accountability. Most importantly, we want to make room for growth for everyone to remain agile in responding to the constantly changing world, to increase effectiveness, act with respect and contribute to greatness.

How do we look at the world of tomorrow?

At Goodman we believe we all have a role to play in safeguarding the future for next generations. Therefore, sustainability is the driving force behind everything we do. Not only do we foster a sustainable and inclusive working environment for all our employees but also, throughout all our projects, we are continuously challenging ourselves to make sustainability a reality. All of this is part of Goodman’s DNA and at the centre of everything we do. At Goodman, we believe it’s not enough to talk the talk — we also need to walk the walk!