thinkahead - Director, Legal, UK & Europe
Requirements
• Qualified Solicitor (England & Wales) or Barrister holding a current practising certificate. • Significant post-qualification experience (PQE), gained in private practice and/or in-house legal roles, including advising senior executives within and international commercial environment. • Extensive experience in a senior in-house legal role within an international or technology-focused organisation. • Demonstrable experience supporting multinational organisations and cross-border legal matters. • Proficient in legal research methodologies and legal information resources. • Exceptional commercial judgement with the ability to deliver pragmatic, risk-based legal advice. • Excellent time management, with the ability to prioritise conflicting priorities, meet critical deadlines, and operate in a fast-paced environment while maintaining productivity. • Excellent communication, influencing and executive stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively where appropriate. • Knowledge of litigation disclosure, document preservation and e-disclosure processes. • Knowledge of UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018 and applicable EU data protection legislation. • Demonstrates absolute discretion, integrity and sound professional judgement when handling confidential and commercially sensitive matters. • This is a hybrid role based in the UK with an expectation of approximately three days per week in the office (Reading, UK). • Occasional travel throughout the UK, Europe and internationally will be required.
Responsibilities
• Lead all commercial legal matters across the UK & Europe, including drafting, reviewing, negotiating and advising on complex customer, supplier, technology, cloud, software, hardware, professional services, procurement, subcontractor, confidentiality, and strategic partnership agreements. • Develop and lead the regional legal and compliance framework, ensuring alignment with applicable UK, EU and local regulatory requirements. • Provide strategic employment law advice across UK & Europe, working closely with People & Culture and external legal advisers where appropriate, supporting organisational change, acquisitions, restructures, executive matters and complex employee relations issues. • Lead the management of UK & Europe disputes, litigation and external legal advisers, managing external legal spend and the performance of external legal advisers. • Act as a trusted adviser to the UK & Europe Leadership team, and partner with People and Culture, Sales, Finance, Operations and Procurement to develop commercially effective governance and decision-making frameworks and enable commercially sound business decisions. • Provide strategic legal risk assessments, balancing commercial objectives with appropriate governance and advising senior leadership on risk appetite and mitigation, escalating as appropriate. • Sponsor continuous improvement of legal operations, technology and processes. • Work collaboratively with global Legal to drive consistency while accommodating local legal requirements.
Benefits
• Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between. • We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning. • We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, assessing responses, or to capture recordings and create transcriptions or summaries during interviews. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. • If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please refer to the Candidate Privacy Notice or contact us at [email protected]. • You may opt-out of the review or analysis of your application and resume by AI tools by using the General Application. Please include the role you wish to apply for in the Additional Information field. You may also choose to opt-out of recording and transcription at any time, including after joining an interview. Candidates will not be penalized for choosing to opt-out.
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