# Country Counsel, UK & Ireland

**Company**: HP
**Location**: Reading, Berkshire
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As Country Counsel UK & Ireland, you will lead the legal support for HP’s Sales & Marketing organization across the UK and Ireland.

You will manage a team of commercial lawyers and coordinate specialist, matrixed, and external legal resources supporting HP’s UK & Ireland operations.

Your role involves serving as a trusted advisor to senior business leaders, enabling business growth while managing legal risk through a smart, pragmatic, and commercially focused approach.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Lead legal support for UK & Ireland commercial activities, providing strategic and practical advice that enables the business to move quickly while managing legal, regulatory, and compliance risks.

- Support and negotiate complex hardware, services, managed services, subscription, SaaS, and other technology transactions with customers and channel partners across HP’s portfolio.

- Advise on a broad range of legal matters, including commercial law, competition law, data protection and privacy, channel and distribution arrangements, consumer protection, disputes and claims, and corporate governance.

- Partner closely with business, compliance, finance, procurement, and other stakeholders to drive enterprise One-HP outcomes and deliver practical solutions.

- Partner closely with other Legal teams, including Corporate Legal, Employment Legal, Litigation, Global Trade, Privacy, and Government Affairs, to leverage subject-matter expertise and drive the best outcomes for HP through a One-Legal approach.

- Review and influence global templates, policies, programs, business models, product offerings, and go-to-market initiatives, ensuring alignment with legal requirements and business objectives.

- Drive simplification, scalability, and continuous improvement by developing guidance, playbooks, and self-service tools that empower the business and reduce dependency on Legal for low-risk matters.

- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing legal team, fostering accountability, collaboration, innovation, and professional growth.

- Promote a smart-risk culture by balancing legal, regulatory, and policy considerations with business priorities and customer needs.

**Required Education and Experience**

- Qualified Solicitor in England & Wales, Solicitor or Advocate in Scotland, or another equivalent UK legal qualification.

- Typically 10+ years of post-qualification experience in a leading law firm and/or in-house legal department.

- Strong experience negotiating and advising on complex commercial, technology, services, software, and channel transactions.

- Demonstrated experience advising on complex commercial and regulatory matters, with strong knowledge of applicable laws and regulations, including competition law, data protection and privacy, consumer protection, cybersecurity, AI, corporate governance, anti-corruption, and financial regulations.

- Experience supporting senior business stakeholders and influencing decisions in a complex, cross-functional, international environment.

- Proven experience managing, coaching, and developing high-performing legal professionals and teams.

- Proven ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, manage multiple priorities, and operate effectively in a fast-paced environment with little to no management oversight.

- Strong stakeholder management skills and experience collaborating effectively across legal, compliance, privacy, finance, sales, and other cross-functional teams.

**Desired Skills and Characteristics**

- Strong commercial judgment and pragmatic problem-solving skills.

- Ability to make and support timely decisions, navigating ambiguity and competing priorities.

- Customer-focused, business-oriented, and solution-driven.

- Collaborative leader who actively breaks down silos and builds trusted relationships across functions.

- Passion for simplification, scalability, and continuous improvement.

- High level of accountability, integrity, and ownership.

- Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.

- Resilient, adaptable, and effective under pressure.

## Skills

### Required
- commercial law
- competition law
- data protection and privacy
- channel and distribution arrangements
- consumer protection
- disputes and claims
- corporate governance
- complex commercial transactions
- technology transactions
- services transactions
- software transactions
- channel transactions
- cybersecurity
- AI
- anti-corruption
- financial regulations

### Nice to have
- strong commercial judgment
- pragmatic problem-solving skills
- timely decision-making
- customer-focused
- business-oriented
- solution-driven
- collaborative leadership
- simplification
- scalability
- continuous improvement
- accountability
- integrity
- ownership
- excellent communication
- influencing
- stakeholder management skills

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