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The Ocado Group is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Strategic Legal Counsel to join our team. As a key member of our legal department, you will play a critical role in providing strategic legal advice to our business leaders and stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities- Partner with our business leaders to provide strategic legal advice on domestic and international transactions.
- Facilitate the development of business strategies while providing legal and risk management expertise.
- Support stakeholders across the Solutions business and key collaborators, including at an executive level.
- Participate in, support, and represent the Associate General Counsel at senior leadership and management forums.
- Being a trusted strategic partner for key stakeholders, including members of the executive team, and serving as the go-to subject matter expert for all commercial and other legal matters for the Solutions business and Ocado Group.
- Proactively identifying legal changes that could impact our operations as well as strategic priorities for the business and working with relevant stakeholders to agree solutions and take responsibility to achieve advantageous outcomes for the business.
- Taking a leading role in managing, coaching, and developing junior members of the team to deliver high-quality and commercial advice to the Solutions business (and where applicable Ocado Group) in a timely manner.
- Leading and supervising drafting, negotiation, and advice provided in respect of new and existing international Solutions contracts (and where applicable Ocado Group).
- Overseeing all legal input in respect of drafting, negotiation, and providing expert advice on a wide range of domestic and cross-border commercial and other legal work in respect of contracts in support of the Solutions business (and where applicable the Ocado Group), including:
- Technology and hardware procurement arrangements, including supply and/or manufacture agreements.
- Technology design appointments.
- IT procurement, including appointment of cloud services, SaaS, and IT licenses.
- IP matters, including collaboration agreements, licensing, and cross-licensing.
- Data protection matters, including data protection agreements and advice.
- Logistics and distribution agreements.
- General procurement of goods and services.
- Having a well-developed pragmatic and customer-focused approach to risk management.
- Being flexible in communication style and seamlessly adapting responses to stakeholders in vague or challenging situations to exceed business expectations.
- Modeling, encouraging, recognizing, and rewarding a strong and unwavering focus on results.
- Anticipating, identifying, and advising on IP, competition, and data protection issues in the context of commercial and technology contracts and working collaboratively with the Compliance and Regulatory and IP teams on relevant matters.
- Ensuring compliance with corporate governance (including competition/antitrust policies) as part of any transaction.
- Anticipating, identifying, advising, and managing disputes, construction/property, employment, corporate, and financing issues in the context of Solutions (and where applicable Ocado Group). Working collaboratively with the Disputes, Employment, Construction, and Corporate Legal team on relevant matters to support the Solutions business.
- Building and developing strong relationships with external counsel and managing those relationships effectively from a delivery, risk, and cost perspective on a daily basis.
- Contributing to the development of the Legal team's strategy and proactively maintaining and raising the profile of the team by developing and taking forward team initiatives/objectives.
- Developing and providing training and legal updates to the Solutions business (and where applicable Ocado Group) on various areas of the law and regulatory matters.
- Being responsible for the creation, development, and update of standard contract templates and know-how materials for the Solutions business (and where applicable Ocado Group).
- Contributing to developing more efficient legal systems and operations that impact the function and looking for opportunities to improve, e.g., automation or smarter in-house legal working.
- Supporting and managing legal budget in respect of Solutions operations globally.
- Supporting, coaching, and developing the wider Legal team to fulfill their potential and deliver quality advice.
We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Strategic Legal Counsel to join our team. The ideal candidate will have:
- A minimum of 10 years post-qualification as a commercial or technology lawyer.
- Qualifications: Qualified Solicitor/Barrister specialising in commercial and technology contracts. Ideally trained with a leading law firm or in-house team.
- Expertise: Experience advising on commercial and technology law internationally, with a desire to expand this expertise. Strong IP and data protection knowledge.
- Leadership: Proven experience working with senior management, including executive and board levels, in complex environments.
- Skills: Exceptional domestic and cross-border transactional experience. Outstanding business judgment and client counseling skills. Strong academic background.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:
- 30 days 'working from anywhere in the world' policy.
- Wellbeing support through dedicated apps and an Employee Assistance Programme.
- 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days after 5 years service (plus optional holiday purchase).
- Pension scheme (various options available including employer contribution matching up to 7%).
- Generous Private Medical Insurance (within the first month of joining).
- Income Protection (can be up to 50% of salary for 3 years) and Life Assurance (3 x annual salary).
- 22 weeks paid maternity leave and 6 weeks paid paternity leave (once relevant service requirements complete).
- Train Ticket loan (interest-free).
- Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Free shuttle bus to and from Hatfield Train Station to the Hatfield offices.
- Free shuttle bus to and from Welwyn Garden City Train Station to the Welwyn Garden City offices.
- Opportunity to participate in Sharesave and Buy as You Earn share schemes.
- 15% discount on and free delivery for all employees (within the first month of joining).
