About

Wholly-owned by Bertelsmann, Arvato Systems develops and implements innovative solutions for business customers around the world. These include SCM solutions, financial services and IT services, which are continuously developed with a focus on innovations in automation and data analytics. Jochen Fuchs is the head of legal affairs and chief compliance officer, who joined the company in 2006 and took the challenge of creating the legal team from scratch in 2012. The team now consists of 14 highly specialised and innovative legal experts dealing with a range of legal, compliance and GDPR matters. Recognising the importance of legal technology, Fuchs implemented a global e-signing solution and developed a self-service legal template database that works both as a sales enabler and an internal automation tool for various administrative compliance processes. In his current role, Fuchs has enabled the legal function to serve not just as a support function, but as a respected business partner at board level. In addition, he has successfully added data protection, contract management, ethics and compliance, IT compliance, sanction list screening and guidelines and processes to the legal department’s scope of responsibilities. According to Fuchs, ‘legal professionals need to evolve into digital specialists who have deep knowledge and understanding of integrated business processes and technology. The legal profession itself needs to face the challenges of digitisation of legal services’, he says.