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Senior Legal Counsel.

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  • Salary Attractive Salary
  • Location Hybrid
  • Reference 42700

Commercial & Regulatory

  • Location: Redhill / Hybrid
  • Salary: £95,000–£120,000
  • Experience: 5–8+ years PQE

The Opportunity

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Senior Legal Counsel . to join a growing, consumer-focused business based in Redhill.

  • This is a broad, high-impact in-house position offering the opportunity to become a key legal adviser to the business and work closely with senior leadership and stakeholders across multiple functions.
  • Thus the successful candidate will provide commercially focused legal advice across a diverse range of matters, including commercial contracts, consumer and marketing law, intellectual property, regulatory issues, product development, disputes and data protection.
  • This role would suit a commercially minded solicitor who enjoys operating in a fast-paced environment and wants genuine ownership, autonomy and exposure to senior decision-makers.

Key Responsibilities

  • Acting as a trusted legal adviser to senior management and key business stakeholders.
  • Providing practical advice on commercial, regulatory and operational legal matters.
  • Drafting, reviewing and negotiating a wide range of commercial agreements, including supplier, technology, SaaS, partnership, marketing and licensing contracts.
  • Advising on contractual risk, including liability, indemnities, termination, intellectual property, data protection and service levels.
  • Owning and maintaining customer-facing Terms & Conditions, promotional terms, policies and other legal documentation.
  • Advising on consumer protection, advertising and promotional requirements.
  • Reviewing marketing campaigns, customer communications, website content and promotional activity from a legal perspective.
  • Providing legal input into new products, services, technology and business initiatives, applying a legal-by-design approach.
  • Advising on intellectual property matters, including trade marks, licensing, brand protection and potential infringements.
  • Managing disputes, threatened claims and pre-action matters, instructing external counsel where appropriate.
  • Providing legal support on complex UK GDPR and privacy matters.
  • Identifying material legal risks and work with relevant stakeholders to ensure appropriate mitigation.
  • Instructing and managing external legal advisers where specialist expertise is required.
  • Providing legal training and guidance to teams across the organisation.
  • Assisting with development of efficient processes for managing legal risk and reducing unnecessary reliance on external counsel.

About You

  • An England & Wales qualified solicitor with approximately 5–8+ years PQE, ideally with a strong commercial and in-house background.

We are particularly interested in candidates with:

  • Strong commercial contracts experience.
  • Previous in-house experience, ideally within a consumer-facing, digital or regulated environment.
  • Experience advising on consumer law and marketing/advertising requirements.
  • Good knowledge of intellectual property and data protection.
  • Excellent drafting, negotiation and stakeholder management skills.
  • The ability to provide clear, practical and commercially focused advice.
  • Confidence working independently and managing a varied legal workload.
  • The ability to engage effectively with senior management and non-legal stakeholders.
  • Experience within promotional activity, competitions, gaming, lotteries or similarly regulated consumer sectors would be advantageous, but is not essential.

What’s on Offer

  • £95,000–£120,000 salary, depending on experience.
  • Hybrid working arrangement.
  • Broad and varied in-house legal remit.
  • Significant exposure to senior leadership.
  • Genuine opportunity to influence the development of the legal function.
  • High level of autonomy and responsibility.
  • Opportunity to join a growing and commercially ambitious organisation.

Apply Now

If you are an experienced commercial solicitor looking to take the next step in your in-house career and are attracted to a broad, commercially focused role with significant autonomy, please get in touch for further information.

All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence.

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