Euromonitor International

Legal Counsel

Euromonitor International

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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JuniorMid-Level

About the role

  • Lead legal support on global commercial deals: Draft, review, negotiate, and provide end-to-end support on customer contracts, working closely with Sales and other commercial stakeholders.
  • Attend and lead client and supplier negotiations: Join client calls as needed and lead contractual negotiations with customers and suppliers.
  • Support procurement: Advise on contract risk assessments and work with Procurement to negotiate supplier contracts, supplier contract negotiations and procurement-related risk assessments.
  • Maintain and improve our global contract templates for our Passport (product) and Consulting offerings, and integration of these into the commercial ecosystem, e.g. Salesforce and DocuSign.
  • Risk management: Identify, assess, and mitigate legal, financial, and operational risks in contracts. Provide guidance to the business on key contract terms and, risks, and obligations.
  • Provide pragmatic, solutions-focused legal advice to commercial teams.
  • Collaborate with the General Counsel for support on complex drafting, negotiation and forming judgement of contractual risks.
  • Develop and deliver training for global sales teams; contribute to legal resources, toolkits, and playbooks.
  • Supervise and develop our Legal Contracts Analyst based in Chicago.
  • Proactively identify and drive opportunities to improve processes and enhance efficiency in contract management, legal matter intake and legal operations, leveraging existing tools and systems and consistently looking to find a better way.
  • Continue supporting customer and supplier negotiations and contracts to lead and support customer and supplier contract work, which will remain a central and ongoing responsibility of the role.
  • Broaden scope to include (depending on business needs and capacity): Employment, corporate, regulatory compliance and general legal advisory

Requirements

  • Qualified solicitor or legal executive (UK or equivalent jurisdiction)
  • 2-3+ years’ post-qualification experience (PQE) with strong experience in commercial contracts (in-house or private practice)
  • Can manage multiple priorities and ensure deadlines are met
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication, drafting and negotiation skills
  • Strong commercial acumen; ability to take a pragmatic approach to legal risk and advise the business accordingly
  • Skilled at collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders across all levels of the business
  • Eager to broaden legal skillset and grow within a dynamic in-house environment
  • Strong team player and can-do approach; no job is too big or too small
  • Experience in IP, corporate or regulatory law is advantageous but not essential
Benefits
  • Competitive salaries
  • Enhanced healthcare and pensions
  • Generous holiday allowances
  • Hybrid working
  • Core Hours policy allowing flexible start and finish times

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
contract draftingcontract negotiationrisk assessmentlegal advicecontract managementlegal operationscommercial contractsregulatory complianceintellectual property (IP) lawcorporate law
Soft skills
interpersonal skillscommunication skillsdrafting skillsnegotiation skillscommercial acumencollaborationteam playerproblem-solvingtime managementadaptability
Certifications
qualified solicitorlegal executive