Job Description
The role requires a high degree of independence, sound commercial judgment and the ability to engage effectively with senior stakeholders across the business. It combines hands-on deal leadership with responsibility for driving execution, managing risk and ensuring alignment with broader commercial objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Take ownership of the legal execution of M&A transactions, including acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and strategic investments across multiple jurisdictions
- Shape transaction structuring, risk allocation and execution approach in close collaboration with the M&A team and senior stakeholders
- Act as the primary legal lead on transactions, driving timelines, coordinating stakeholders and ensuring delivery in line with commercial objectives
- Draft, review and negotiate key transaction documentation, including NDAs, term sheets, SPAs, shareholder agreements and ancillary agreements
- Direct and oversee external counsel across jurisdictions, setting strategy, managing delivery, and ensuring alignment with transaction objectives
- Take accountability for external legal spend on transactions, including budget setting, cost control and optimisation of panel firm usage in line with business expectations
- Identify, assess and clearly articulate legal and execution risks, providing pragmatic, commercially focused recommendations to support decision-making
- Oversee due diligence processes and translate findings into clear, actionable advice for internal stakeholders
- Manage signing and closing processes, including conditions precedent, regulatory considerations and post-completion matters
- Contribute to the development and refinement of internal M&A frameworks, templates and best practices to support consistent execution
- Provide guidance on complex legal and commercial issues arising in the context of transactions
Stakeholder Interaction
- Work closely with senior members of the M&A team on transaction strategy and execution
- Engage directly with senior business stakeholders across regions on transaction-critical decisions
- Manage relationships with external law firms and advisers, including panel firms
- Collaborate with internal functions including finance, tax, treasury and compliance
Experience & Skills
- 10+ years’ experience (or equivalent) in M&A, with a strong track record of leading complex cross-border transactions
- Experience gained in a leading law firm and/or in-house environment, with exposure to sophisticated deal execution
- Demonstrated ability to manage transactions end-to-end, from structuring through to completion
- Strong drafting and negotiation skills across a broad range of transaction documents
- Commercially minded, with the ability to balance legal risk and business objectives
- Comfortable operating autonomously and taking ownership of key matters
- Ability to manage multiple transactions simultaneously in a dynamic, international environment
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at different levels
Personal Attributes
- Sound judgment and decision-making capability in complex and time-sensitive situations
- Pragmatic and solution-oriented approach
- High level of ownership and accountability
- Resilient and adaptable in a fast-paced environment
- Strong organisational and prioritisation skills
Role Context
The role operates within a lean team structure and requires a proactive, hands-on approach, with responsibility for managing multiple transactions concurrently and providing clear direction in complex, time-sensitive situations. The successful candidate will be expected to take ownership of outcomes, operate with minimal supervision and contribute meaningfully to the effectiveness of the Group M&A function.
ArcelorMittal is the world's leading steel and mining company, with a presence in 60 countries and primary steelmaking facilities in 15 countries. Our material is part of the fabric of life. What we produce makes a difference – to individuals, communities, businesses and society. At ArcelorMittal, the safety, health, and wellbeing of our employees are our top priorities. We believe that every accident is avoidable, and it is essential for every employee, from the shop floor to the management committee, to hold this belief.
Our purpose is to produce ever smarter steels that have a positive benefit for people and planet. Steels made using innovative processes which use less energy, emit significantly less carbon and reduce costs. Steels that are cleaner, stronger and reusable. Steels for electric vehicles and renewable energy infrastructure that will support societies as they transform through this century. With steel at our core, our inventive people and an entrepreneurial culture at heart, we will support the world in making that change. This is what we believe it takes to be the steel company of the future.
