Senior Legal Counsel - Commercial

Responsible to:

Head of Legal

Department:

JD Group Legal

Location:

Bury Head Office

Role Overview:           

Senior Legal Counsel - Commercial for the JD Group (6+ years PQE)

Term:

Permanent

The Role:

This is a senior role within the JD Legal Team focusing on commercial contracts with a  consumer law focus, where you will be working on a wide variety of commercial contracts. We are looking for candidates with significant experience of reviewing, marking up and negotiating a variety of commercial contracts, ideally with specific consumer law and advertising and marketing experience. You will have some experience of working for a retailer, FMCG or consumer facing business.

The Legal Team is dynamic and hard-working. As a senior member of the Legal Team, you will work across the whole JD Group, supporting our business globally, as well as supervising and developing more junior members of the inspire our people to reach the highest levels of performance. To achieve these standards, we only recruit the best. All employees are highly skilled, self-motivated and in constant pursuit of commercial and pragmatic solutions for the JD Group.

You will advise and support the JD Group on all types of commercial contracts with a consumer or advertising and marketing focus as well as support more junior team members. In addtion, you will create standard template agreements, always look to create or improve working processes and provide training to the business and the Legal Team to develop their skills. You will also work closely with our Compliance team and in particular the Group’s Data Protection Officer so experience in data protection and other regulations, that large corporates such as the JD Group are exposed to, is an advantage.

Day to day you’ll work closely with business stakeholders from across the JD Group on various commercial contracts.  You will have the chance to work on global projects with cross functional teams and will play a key role in rolling out training, policies and guidelines across the JD Group.

Skills/Experience/Knowledge Needed:

• UK qualified solicitor – 6+ years PQE.
• Training and previous experience in reviewing, drafting and advising on a wide range of commercial contracts within a respectable in-house role or law firm.
• Demonstrable experience of working with all levels of stakeholders in a large global corporate (including the executive leadership team).
• Good understanding of the evolving regulations particularly relating to consumer law, data privacy, competition law and advertising/marketing standards to be able to provide effective advice to the business.
• An effective communicator with demonstrable negotiating and drafting skills.
• Self-motivated, ambitious, team player with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. Strong attention to detail as well as a commercial mindset with an ability to explain matters clearly and simply to non-legal stakeholders.
• Ability to think outside the box and support the Legal Team and the business in finding effective solutions.
• Evidence of previous project management skills to successfully deliver projects (including cross jurisdiction) and initiatives would be highly desirable.
• Experience of working in retail/FMCG/customer facing industry sector.