Legal Counsel

Legal Counsel – Job Role

The Role

To ensure my client retain their position at the forefront of this exciting and rapidly developing industry, it is essential that they find outstanding talent to join their team, who share their company values and want to be part of the future success of the business.

My client is a customer centric company, always placing their customers first, and this approach is expected from all layers of the organisation including their legal team.

It is therefore essential that a customer service mindset drives everything you do and how you act at all times.

If you relish a challenge, and feel you have what it takes to work at the peak of the global logistics industry, my client is looking for the best and the brightest to represent their business as Legal Counsel to the UK & Ireland business units.

Role Overview

• Key member of UK & I Legal team providing day to day legal support and advice.
• Aid the development of the UK & I legal strategy and contribute to wider EMEA and Global teams as the business develops their in-house legal services

Key Responsibilities

• Drafting and negotiating various types of contracts including Master Service Agreements, Vendor Agreements, Software Licencing Agreements, E-commerce contracts, Agency and Trademark Agreements, NDA’s etc
• Resolving and / or defending on dispute resolution
• Assist Head of Legal – EMEA in developing the UK & I Legal team to become part of a high performing Global legal team

Other Responsibilities

• Support the business on a daily or as needed basis with business and operational requests that need legal support and advice along with other matters / projects as assigned.
• Collaborate with external counsel on an as needed basis, to drive cost saving efficiencies as well as to mitigate risk as best as possible.
• Assist with and support Human Resources including drafting Employment Agreements, negotiating Staffing Agreements and releases.
• Work with and assist Human Resources and Compliance to improve legal compliance across UK&I.
• Experience of company secretarial and corporate governance, litigation and data protection would be advantageous.
• Experience of working in small teams.
• Experience of working on cross border agreements or agreements based in US or EMEA jurisdictions.
• Experience of providing in-house legal training and managing legal and / or compliance initiatives.

Essential Requirements

• UK qualified with minimum six months in-house experience
• Industry background is flexible but experience within trade and logistics would be ideal.
• Commercial law background and expertise is essential
• The role is ideally suited for someone who is 2-4 years PQE although we are open to looking outside of this range provided the other essential requirements are met.

Other Information

The role will be hybrid with the individual spending 2-3 days a week in the office. The current Head of Legal - EMEA is based in Windsor so the successful candidate will initially need to be in Windsor 2-3 days per week for the first 1-3 months for training and induction.

Although the ideal location for this role is in Manchester, our client has offices across the country and will consider an individual based at any one of those offices (including Glasgow, Southampton, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Egham or Manchester).