Junior Commercial Counsel

Qargo TMS

Junior Commercial Counsel managing customer contracting and compliance at Qargo, a SaaS Transport Management Platform. Join a growing legal team in a fast-scaling tech company based in London.

Posted 5/26/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomJuniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own day-to-day customer contracting (MSAs, Order Forms, NDAs, DPAs, amendments, renewals, SOWs), with scope to grow into handling strategic, high-value, and enterprise deals alongside the Legal Lead.
Manage and evolve Qargo's CLM (Juro) with the Sales-enablement Lead : manage templates, workflows, playbooks, reporting, and user enablement across the business.
Co-own Qargo's data protection and privacy operations : negotiate customer and vendor DPAs, maintain the intra-group data sharing framework and privacy/cookie policies, and partner with Security on NIS2 and incident response readiness.
Own end-to-end supplier and procurement contracting : SaaS vendors, IT, marketing, and professional services.
Support US expansion : help stand up customer contracting workflows for Qargo Tech Inc.
Provide support on corporate compliance and other ad hoc legal tasks as needed.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Either a qualified solicitor or CILEX lawyer in England & Wales (NQ–3 PQE), with in-house experience or 3–5 years of in-house legal experience at a technology or SaaS business.
Solid grounding in SaaS commercial contracting : MSAs, Order Forms, DPAs, NDAs.
Familiarity with UK & EU GDPR and data protection fundamentals.
Experience with a CLM tool (Juro experience is a real bonus!).
Tech-native and AI-curious : comfortable with tools like Slack, Notion, Google Workspace and GenAI tooling.
Pragmatic, business-first mindset - you translate legal risk into clear, actionable commercial advice.
Confident operating autonomously in a small team , with high ownership and a bias to action.
Excellent written and verbal communication; comfortable with senior stakeholders and external advisers.
Collaborative and curious — you genuinely want to grow a function, not just maintain it.
Fluent in English .
French or Dutch is a big plus!

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible hybrid working from our London office
Private healthcare with Vitality
Growth opportunities in a fast-scaling tech company expanding into the US and beyond.
Meaningful ownership from day one — this isn't a support role, it's a building role.
Being part of a driven and inclusive team that is transforming the logistics industry.

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Hard Skills & Tools

MSAsOrder FormsNDAsDPAsSOWscontractingdata protectionGDPRCLMin-house legal experience

Soft Skills

pragmatic mindsetbusiness-first mindsetautonomous operationownershipbias to actionexcellent communicationcollaborativecurious

Certifications

qualified solicitorCILEX lawyer