Description
As Associate Legal Counsel (5 to 8 years of PQE), you will focus on a number of legal areas and advise UK teams across the business.
The key responsibilities of this role include:
- Support and advise the Partner team and negotiate strategic Partner deals
- Support and advise the Go-To-Market teams in the UK on the most strategic and/or highest value deals
- Work closely with your manager to support on strategic projects
- Work on specific projects, for example when we roll out new templates/launch new products
- Review and negotiate customer, partnership and supplier contracts by providing pragmatic and commercial support
- Supervise more junior lawyers on negotiations or on specific files
- Instruct and manage external legal counsel
- Build out and maintain self-help tools, playbooks and guides for the legal team and for the wider business
- Focus on constant process improvement related to high volume work - for example by iterating our contracting automation and management workflows
- Be prepared to deal with any legal issue, at any time.
We're looking for a lawyer with private practice training and/or in-house experience in a fast-paced environment. You will be driven, able to work independently and able to apply your existing knowledge and approach across a very wide range of legal (and quasi-legal) areas.
Desired skills:
- Experience negotiating complex contracts with sophisticated counterparties
- Experience reviewing marketing materials in accordance with applicable laws and regulations
- Grasp new legal concepts quickly, and are not afraid to use your common sense.
- Able to appropriately challenge ways of working and not be afraid to ask why.
- Self-starter who is proactive and willing to roll up your sleeves to get the job done.
- First-class communication skills, and able to distill complex and cumbersome legalese into understandable English.
- Love tech and tools, and love exploring how they can contribute to efficiency and customer experience.
- Enjoy project management and thrive on operational efficiency.
Base salary range: £64,000 - £96,000
Benefits:
- Wellbeing - stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover
- Work away scheme - gives you the option to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12 month period
- Adaptive Working - allows you to work flexibly, around your lifestyle
- Parental leave - to suit everyone embarking on life's great adventure
- Learning Budget - lead your own development with an annual learning budget
- Time off - generous holiday allowance, + 3 annual volunteer days, + 4 annual business-wide wellness days (‘GC Fridays’)