Legal Assistant

Legal Assistant

Permanent part-time contract, 50% to 60% starting in May

Lausanne, Switzerland

Sommet Education is a hospitality education group of more than 800 employees that is home to three leading institutions: Glion Institute of Higher Education, Les Roches Global Hospitality Education and Ecole Ducasse. Our headquarters are based in Lausanne, Switzerland, with additional hubs in Marbella, Spain (Accounting) and London, UK (Enrolment and Marketing).

Our 5 values resonate in you: Development, Distinctiveness, Joint commitment, Openness and Sense of service.

You are an excellent communicator with a self-motivated mindset taking initiative to continuously improve processes; you have a sense of curiosity and willingness to take on new tasks and develop new skills; you have the ability to work independently and in a team in a multicultural, multi brands and multi jurisdictions environment, with the ability to maintain confidentiality and liaise with senior management; you have interest and skills for project management; you are fluent in English with excellent French level as working languages (written and spoken) (knowledge of Spanish as a plus); you have strong organizational skills and record keeping capabilities with attention to details, you are proficient in MS 365 Office applications, Teams and Sharepoint. You have a good understanding of corporate legal structures and legal language or a strong willingness and interest to learn, you hold a CFC Employé de Commerce or equivalent (a CAS in paralegal is a real plus) and have 3 to 5 years experience working in a legal sector, in a law firm or in-house setting as administrative support with knowledge of legal/corporate secretarial functions.

As Legal Assistant, your main missions will be: