Senior Legal Counsel (70% - 100%)

About the job

15.09.2026

Senior Legal Counsel (70% - 100%)

Your future at Orion – Legal Protection

Are you looking for a new challenge? At Orion, a growing legal protection insurance company based in Basel and Lausanne, we shape the insurance world with a spirit of innovation, strong team spirit, and the ambition to create real added value for our clients. We believe in smart solutions and in people who act customer-oriented and think pragmatically.

To strengthen our team in Basel, we are looking for a motivated and committed individual as Senior Legal Counsel (70% - 100%) to start immediately or by arrangement.

Your daily work:

• With us, you don’t just solve legal cases. You advise, negotiate, and ensure comprehensive legal protection for our clients with tailored strategies and creative solutions.
• You represent our private and corporate clients, focusing optionally on contract or employment law, tenancy law, as well as property and neighbour law (knowledge in other legal areas such as road traffic or insurance law is an advantage).
• You are the central contact person for external lawyers and conduct negotiations with opposing parties and authorities.
• You draft submissions outside the lawyer monopoly and take responsibility for high-quality case handling.
• As a Senior Legal Counsel, you support colleagues with professional questions and promote internal knowledge development.
• Besides case handling, you can take on additional responsibilities, for example in actively developing our services and processes, managing our network of lawyers, mentoring trainees, or participating in projects.

What you bring:

• You have a Swiss university degree in law (MLaw or lic. iur.); a lawyer’s licence or experience in legal protection insurance is an advantage.
• You have several years of professional experience, ideally in a law firm or insurance company.
• Your clients’ satisfaction is important to you, and you know how to communicate even complex issues clearly, practically, and customer-oriented.
• With your pragmatic and solution-oriented approach, you develop solutions that are legally convincing and economically sensible.
• You are assertive, flexible, and possess strong negotiation skills.
• You keep a cool head in hectic situations and demanding cases.
• You communicate confidently and appropriately in German. Additional language skills, especially Italian or French, are a plus.
• You naturally and profitably use modern technologies and AI tools in your daily work.

What you get and why you will want to stay:

• A job that never gets boring.
• Lots of personal responsibility and independence.
• An open, appreciative, and trusting feedback and corporate culture.
• Short communication paths and a team that truly lives humour and collaboration.
• Team leadership that leads at eye level, supports you, and has your back.
• Development and training opportunities, both professionally and beyond classic legal work.
• Flexible working conditions with generous home office options.
• A modern workplace in the heart of Basel.
• Attractive fringe benefits.
• Distinction AND: equality and compatibility of work and family life.

Convinced? Then we look forward to your application at: jobs@orion.ch!

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