In House Legal Counsel

Are you a qualified Commercial Solicitor looking for an in-house role with a varied workload, across a range of commercial and legal matters? Play Sports Network is looking for an In-House Counsel to join us, working closely with the Commercial team, CEO, FD & HRD, and other senior managers.

You’ll have the opportunity to oversee all legal and regulatory aspects of the Company’s operations, including commercial partnerships, investments, employment law, and property matters. You’ll also be able to work across 2 companies based at the same HQ in Bath, either Play Sports Network Ltd or SHIFT Active Media Ltd. You’ll be able to provide the Board with advice to protect the commercial and reputational interests of the Company in all areas that have a legal or regulatory dimension.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Working closely with commercial management to negotiate and execute commercial agreements with Brand Partners and a range of other counterparties (rights holders, key suppliers to the business, etc.);
• Working with the CEO, FD & HRD on business development projects; and with SHIFT Active Media management team, as required.
• Maintaining precedent commercial agreements and overseeing the day-to-day preparation of agreements;
• General legal advice, supporting senior management across a range of employment, property, regulatory (including advertising/broadcast) and insurance matters.
• Liaising with external counsel, where necessary, to obtain and consolidate advice.
• Data protection due diligence (for example, when onboarding new suppliers or implementing new procedures) and oversight of responses to data subject rights requests;
• Managing the company’s IP including trademark registrations and liaising with external counsel to register and maintain our portfolio of international registrations;
• Developing consumer terms & conditions and privacy policies for our digital products and ensuring general compliance with local legal and data regulations in various jurisdictions;
• Dispute resolution including pre-action correspondence in cases of IP infringement and any general commercial issues with clients, suppliers, or other third parties.

Skills, Experience, and Aptitudes

• Qualified solicitor.
• At least 4 years PQE.
• A good grounding in commercial law either in private practice or in-house.
• Ability to quickly understand the drivers behind a project, the associated risks, and give concise, commercial advice.
• Ability to effectively delegate and supervise in order to balance day-to-day work with longer-term/strategic projects and ad hoc queries.
• Ability to work with people across all aspects of a business including Board level and senior management.
• Broad familiarity with data protection laws and their application in a commercial and consumer context.
• Assertiveness in commercial negotiations and when providing internal advice.

Preferred

• Experience of media, agency, IP licensing, and/or sponsorship would be helpful but not essential.
• Experience in employment legal matters.
• Interest in cycling and/or media would be an added bonus, but is not essential.
• Foreign languages (in particular European) are helpful.

Play Sports Network is the world’s largest cycling media company and community, reaching and engaging with more than 40.1 million hyper-engaged cycling fans and riders globally across our portfolio of road cycling, mountain biking, triathlon, and e-mountain biking channels.

Every day of every week we deliver original content across multiple channels and languages, all presented by highly authentic and credible, accomplished former pros who have competed at the highest international levels, inspiring our audiences through their enthusiasm, humour, and insight.

Our channels include the Global Cycling Network (GCN), the Global Mountain Bike Network (GMBN), the Global Triathlon Network (GTN), and the Electric Mountain Bike Network (EMBN); their tech and racing focused sister channels, GCN Tech, GMBN Tech, and GCN Racing; and our international channels GCN en Español, GCN Italia, GCN auf Deutsch, and GCN en Francais.

Whatever their focus, all our channels engage our passionate communities across multiple touch-points, allowing us to deliver our content to them wherever they are and however they want – with more than 7 billion views.

We pride ourselves on our inclusive, open, friendly culture, and we actively welcome diverse candidates to apply to this role and also consider joining our talent pool.

If you wish to apply anonymously, feel free to put ‘anon’ in the name fields of your application. You can also take your name, date of birth, and any photographs off your CV, if you prefer. If you’d like to read our Diversity and Inclusion company policy before applying, please get in touch.

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