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Senior Legal Counsel - Central Team

Name: Jobpe
Address: T-Hub, Plot No 1/C, Sy No 83/1, Raidurgam panmaktha, Knowledge City Rd, Hyderabad, Telangana, 500081, IN
Telephone: +91-83339-09630
Price range: Free

WPP

7 - 12 years

15 - 20 Lacs

Mumbai

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Skills Required

General Counsel Commercial laws Litigation Legal Counsel Intellectual property Legal Data processing data privacy Management Recruitment

Work Mode

Work from Office

Job Type

Full Time

Job Description

The role is to act as in-house legal counsel to the UK business supporting their commercial and client teams and to support the Global General Counsel as part of the wider GroupM Legal Team.

The successful candidate will not only provide the expected legal expertise in drafting and negotiating contracts and policy, but to also understand how to support commercial negotiations in line with best practice and group guidance, and be keen to understand and learn in a fast paced environment.

The ideal candidate will be legally astute and be a qualified lawyer who has worked in a we'll-recognised UK commercial law firm and preferably with inhouse experience. They should have significant experience in drafting and negotiating commercial contracts ideally in a media and/or technology context. Knowledge of intellectual property and/or data privacy desirable.

Travel may be required from time to time.

What you'll be doing:

Responsibilities

As we'll as working closely with the commercial team, the key areas of responsibility for this role are:

Drafting, negotiating and advising on a range of media services, creative content, IT supplier agreements, technology licences, data processing agreements and non-disclosure agreements
Drafting and negotiating talent/influencer agreements
Advising on regulatory and policy compliance
Supporting the business on deal making in relation to complex and innovative projects
Keeping abreast of industry regulation, providing legal advice on governance and law change developments across social, media, ecommerce, data privacy and security issues, the transfer, use and storage of data and ePrivacy
Training and advising the business on risk, compliance, protection matters and relevant aspects of law
Working with other key stakeholders in the business to set strategy and policies for managing risk in new and emerging products and services
Helping to create a high profile of the legal resource throughout the business and encouraging active legal involvement in operational decision making
Responsibility for legal aspects of pitch responses and client renegotiations
Managing relationships with internal group counsel (WPP/GroupM) & external law firms and other professional advisors (notably auditors)
Development of user friendly contract templates that can be utilised across the business
Managing capture and storage of contracts
Coordinating the implementation of GroupM level legal initiatives
Implementing data privacy good practice and assisting the business with data privacy compliance issues
Managing & preventing client litigation
Advising on reputation management
IP and copyright

Essential criteria:

7 years post qualification experience
Excellent communicator - ability to explain legal issues clearly without jargon to commercial teams and clients
Ability to draft from precedent and from scratch
Ability to prioritize, solve problems and provide business solutions to legal issues in a fast-paced environment
Ability to manage fast-paced workload and escalate issues as appropriate
Commercial thinker - ability to understand the tensions between commercial objectives and legal requirements, and resolve those tensions
Operational / commercial experience, must be able to add-value, support / enable / facilitate change
Collaborative team player, relationship builder with a can-do attitude, lots of energy and drive required with a we'll-structured and precise way of working
Fluency in English

Desirable criteria:

Media / advertising contract experience desirable but not essential

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