Legal Counsel

Role Overview

• Advise the Group on legal matters, with a particular emphasis on commercial contracts.
• Engage with the business units and group support functions to build credibility and trust, whilst supporting them in addressing legal implications and compliance issues.
• Negotiate and draft a wide range of commercial contracts and NDAs.
• Support with Company Secretarial matters including managing the group structure, statutory filing, investor and board support.
• Support the General Counsel with ensuring GDPR / Privacy law compliance and ad-hoc projects.
• Assist with the management of the IP, domains and trademark registrations of the Group as well as addressing any related contentious issues as they arise.
• Support the General Counsel on resolving legal issues that face the business from time to time.
• General legal research and legal administrative duties as required. Performance measures
• Mitigate legal risk across the Group through clear, commercially balanced advice
• Take a pragmatic, solutions-focused approach to resolving legal issues
• Confidently challenge and influence stakeholders on legal and commercial risk
• Produce clear, robust contracts with appropriate protections for the business
• Demonstrate strong commercial awareness, considering wider business impact
• Build credible, trusted relationships across the Group
• Effectively manage a high-volume workload, prioritising and meeting deadlines
• Communicate clearly and effectively with a range of stakeholders
• Maintain a high level of accuracy and attention to detail

Requirements

• Qualified solicitor with experience in commercial law
• Strong experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts
• Ability to provide clear, pragmatic, and commercially focused legal advice
• Confident building relationships and influencing stakeholders across the business
• Strong understanding of legal risk and how to balance this with business objectives
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex legal matters
• Highly organised, with the ability to manage a varied workload and competing priorities
• Strong attention to detail and a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment

Benefits

We have a hybrid workplace policy, where you will work from the office 3 days per week. We want you to be able to do your best work here. We emphasize providing many ways to support our team to do their best work and below are some of the perks and benefits we offer: ****** Personal Health & Wellbeing / Benefits**** 🍼 Enhanced Parental Leave 🌴Generous annual leave 🏥 Healthcare Plan💟 Annual Giving Day – an extra day to give back to yourself or your community🚲 Cycle-to-work Scheme **** ** Future Planning****** **💰**Pension scheme with employer contributions 🧬 Life Assurance – 3X base salary💸 Rewards Program – access to discounts and cashback **🏫 LinkedIn Learning License for upskilling & development ****