Do you identify as a generalist lawyer rather than a specialist? Do you have a couple of years of post-graduate experience from a demanding and business-oriented legal role? Would you be excited to join a small legal team that backs up the Finnish operations of a leading building materials distributor in Northern Europe?

If you are thinking YES, please keep reading, because you could be the lawyer we are looking for to join STARK Suomi as a new Legal Counsel!

🪜In this new role, you will be the first Legal Counsel to join Stark Suomi. You will work closely with and report to the General Counsel of Stark Suomi as well as collaborate with other Stark legal professionals around Europe.

📍You will be working with:

• Drafting, commenting and negotiating commercial contracts;

• Assisting the business in claims management and handling the more complicated claims cases;

• Creating and developing STARK Suomi’s compliance programs, policies and instructions connected to e.g. data privacy, anti-bribery & corruption, competition law and sector specific regulations;

• Advising the sales, category and admin functions in varied legal topics; and

• Participating in various development projects, for example related to properties and facilities.

You will primarily advise and support the business in operative legal topics, while also contributing to strategic legal and compliance process development.

🏡 STARK Suomi’s team works mostly on-site based on a hybrid working policy allowing one remote working day/week. This role is based in STARK Suomi’s HQ located in Olari, Espoo. Occasional travel (less than 5 % of your working hours) may be required.

This role would be ideal for a legal professional who has:

🔹 a Finnish legal degree and approximately 2–5 years of post-graduate experience preferably from a highly-considered business law firm or other equally demanding working environment;

🔹 fluent language skills in Finnish and English, and the ability to communicate in a clear and convincing manner in both languages;

🔹 a strong motivation to grow and develop as a generalist lawyer in STARK Suomi’s business environment – this is by far more important than having a certain pre-existing subject-matter legal expertise;

🔹 the ability to travel occasionally and a positive attitude towards different work assignments;

🔹 a skill set required to build, develop and launch compliance processes and future-facing ways of working – previous experience within data protection is considered as an advantage; and

🔹 a shared understanding that an in-house legal counsel should prioritize being there for the business – to support the business both reactively and proactively, and by fixing ongoing, operative issues as well as taking a strategic & development-oriented view on the big picture.

As you can probably read based on the above criteria, we are not on the look-out for a certain specific, pre-existing legal substance-matter skill set. While this role calls for prior experience from a demanding legal role, the most important decisive factor is that you can demonstrate your motivation, potential, capability to learn by doing and based on feedback, as well as your proactive, systematic and analytical ways of working.

STARK Suomi offers you:

✅ A platform to grow as a generalist lawyer – as a member of an in-house team of two lawyers, you can expect to gain a comprehensive 360-degree exposure to the legal needs of STARK Suomi.

✅ A combination of operative & strategic legal work – you will not only learn about the business-related legal needs of STARK Suomi but get to participate in strategic process development work, too. Therefore, you will be taking STARK Suomi’s existing programs and ways of working to the next level.

✅ An international community – even though your focus will be in the Finnish side of STARK’s business, you will also join STARK’s international community covering 18,500 employees working in 1,100+ units and distribution centers across eight countries in Europe.

✅ A highly professional & passionate team – STARK Suomi’s team members foster a passionate approach to work; they want to be proud of their achievements as a team. STARK Suomi prioritizes a fair, genuine and caring working culture.

STARK Suomi is a fair and reliable partner for every builder who does their work with passion and uncompromising professional pride. In Finland, STARK employs approximately 1,000 persons, and STARK’s Finnish network of 27 stores, distribution depots and online stores serves customers regardless of time and place. STARK Suomi’s revenue for the 2025 financial year was EUR 530 million, and its market share in Finland is 20 %. Read more about STARK Suomi here.

Interested? Send us your CV and cover letter no later than on 24 May 2026. If you would like to discuss the position in more detail, feel free to reach out to Minjon’s recruitment consultant Wilma Tuominen (+358 40 515 3834 or wilma.tuominen@minjon.fi).