Commercial Lawyer

4 weeks ago

Newbury, West Berkshire, United Kingdom Vodafone Full time
Job Title: Commercial Counsel

We are seeking a highly skilled Commercial Counsel to join our team at Vodafone UK. As a key member of our Commercial Legal Team, you will provide proactive and solutions-focussed commercial legal advice on a wide range of commercial contracts.

About the Role

You will be responsible for drafting and leading the negotiation of high-value, high-risk, and strategic commercial contracts, including procurement of goods and services, wholesale mobile services, and carrier services. You will also provide pragmatic and solution-oriented legal advice and guidance to internal and external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities
  • Drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, including procurement agreements, wholesale mobile services, and carrier services.
  • Providing legal advice and guidance to internal and external stakeholders, including Supply Chain Management, Device & Operations, Wholesale, Networks, and Business Development & Strategy teams.
  • Working closely with the Disputes legal team to determine position and strategy, advise internal customers, and achieve resolution.
  • Developing and maintaining good relationships with key stakeholders to ensure issues are resolved quickly and escalating where necessary.
  • Assisting Senior Counsel with the supervision of trainees and paralegals in the Team.
  • Collaborating effectively with other parts of the UK Legal Team, and legal teams in Vodafone Group and other Vodafone operating companies, to share ideas, learnings, and best practice.
Requirements
  • Good technical grounding in general commercial and contract law.
  • A track record of advising on a number of material commercial transactions.
  • Experience of managing multiple work streams and multiple stakeholders, meet deadlines, and work under pressure.
  • Good decision-making skills and ability to identify and communicate key risks to internal customers and UK legal management team.
  • Strong appetite to learn about Vodafone UK's business, particularly in highest spending procurement categories, wholesale business lines, major outsourcing projects, and strategic network technology projects.
  • Ability to operate effectively with the Commercial legal team, other parts of the UK legal team, and Vodafone Group legal teams to deliver high-quality coordinated legal advice in a way that embodies Vodafone's values of speed, simplicity, and trust.
  • Desire to work in a multi-disciplined team and to expand expertise into new practice areas within the team's remit.
  • University honours degree (second class or better) or equivalent higher education qualification.
  • Qualified lawyer (Solicitor, Barrister, Chartered Legal Executive or equivalent) with approximately 1-4 years (or equivalent) post-qualification experience practising in either private practice or in an in-house role.
  • Proficient drafting skills and able to draft standard commercial contracts, with ability to draft more complex contracts under supervision.
  • Good negotiation and influencing skills and able to lead legal negotiations on commercial contracts and drive projects to successful completion.
  • Sound knowledge of relevant areas of law and a clear understanding of the commercial and legal risks with a demonstratable ability to take a proactive and solutions-focussed approach.
  • Excellent communication skills and able to deliver concise, clear, commercial, and logical advice tailored to the audience.
  • Able to act unsupervised on standard commercial contracts, and under supervision on more complex matters, and to demonstrate sound commercial judgement.
What We Offer

We believe that taking care of our employees is the key to their success. That is why we offer an excellent remuneration and bonus package with up to 28 days holiday entitlement, in addition to bank holidays and paid leave for charity projects. We offer an extensive benefits package that can be tailored to suit you and your family, including employee discounts, retail vouchers, pension plan, and share schemes. We take pride in our commitment to supporting you at every stage of your career by providing top-of-the-range learning and development tools and market-leading parental leave policies.

Vodafone UK are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and all offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet the regulators' standards.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, please refer to the Accessibility section of our Careers website (https://careers.vodafone.com/uk/applying-to-vodafone/) for guidance.

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