VP, Legal Customers

We are looking for a VP, Legal Customers in Espoo or Solna to shape strategic legal support for complex B2B customer transactions and partnerships at the highest level, as well as support B2C customer activities, while leading a high-performing legal team.

About The Role
As VP, Legal Customers, you will lead and inspire the Legal Customers team to deliver high performance, proactive solutions, and efficient collaboration across business units. This role focuses on providing robust and strategic legal support for customer-related matters, managing risk, and ensuring alignment with business objectives.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading and coaching the team to achieve excellence and foster collaboration
• Providing strategic legal advice on both B2B and B2C customer transactions and business models, critical partnerships, and complex agreements
• Serving as primary legal advisor for B2B customer-related matters, including contract drafting and negotiation for Corporate Customers and Markets business unit
• Supporting Innovation & Venturing business in legal matters
• Building and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships, including co-owners, authorities, regulators, and partners
• Driving compliance and operational efficiency in legal processes and external counsel management
• Implementing best practices, digital tools, and workflows to improve risk mitigation and operational performance
• Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies while promoting forward-looking legal solutions

About You
A leadership role where strategic thinking meets operational execution excites you. You are confident managing complex legal matters and influencing decisions at the highest level. With resilience and integrity, you navigate ambiguity and deliver solutions that balance risk and business priorities.

Your ability to build trust and collaborate across diverse stakeholders sets you apart. You combine strong analytical skills with a disciplined, structured approach to decision-making, and you embrace technology to drive efficiency and innovation.

What we're looking for:

• Master of Law degree
• Over 18 years of extensive experience in complex, international legal matters
• Proven ability to lead and coach high-performing legal teams
• Strong contract negotiation and drafting skills especially in international B2B business environment and with industry leading corporations
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Ability to manage high-pressure situations and deliver under tight timelines
• Experience in legal technology adoption and process improvement
• Can do-attitude

What We Offer
The role offers the opportunity to shape strategic legal support for customer-facing initiatives including partnerships and collaborative ventures while spearheading transformation initiatives that redefine the entire legal organization.

At Fortum, we believe in a better future and want to be involved in shaping it. Our workplace is a safe place, both physically and mentally. You will grow with professional colleagues, being trusted and free to challenge yourself. We offer comprehensive benefits, flexible working hours, and hybrid work model to support your productivity, development and wellbeing. We are committed to build diverse teams where everyone feels included and is treated equally.

Espoo office is a smoke-free workplace.

Interested?
Submit your application (CV) in English by at the latest.

To be selected for the position, the applicant may go through background clearance and a health examination including drug testing.

We are Fortum
Fortum is a Nordic energy company. We generate and deliver reliable energy to our customers and the Nordic energy system while at the same time helping industries decarbonise their processes and grow. Our core operations comprise efficient and best-in-class low-carbon power generation, customer services, and heating and cooling. Fortum's power generation is already 99% from renewable or nuclear sources with one of the lowest specific CO2-emissions in Europe. We are guided by our ambitious SBTi-validated emission reduction targets on our way towards net-zero by 2040. For our :4,500 employees, we commit to be a safe and inspiring workplace. Fortum's share is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki.