Legal Counsel Retail

Legal Counsel, Retail Brand

About the Business

This business is a trusted retail brand and one of the largest employers in the UK. With strong values and a genuine commitment to customers as well as employees, the company has a strong community ethos and clear sense of purpose.

The Opportunity

An excellent opportunity now exists for a Legal Counsel to join one of the commercial legal teams and provide key legal support and commercially focussed advice. You will have the opportunity to draft and negotiate a wide range of agreements relating to supply and distribution, logistics and warehousing, procurement and product safety as well as product regulatory compliance and matters relating to supply chain and quality.

As part of a collegiate and business facing legal team, you will have the opportunity to continue to learn from the other lawyers in the team, giving you the opportunity to continue to develop your skills and become an excellent in-house commercial lawyer.

About You

The opportunity will be best suit a lawyer with strong commercial awareness, who is comfortable with variety and who has a broad commercial skill-set, ideally with some exposure to competition law, litigation and consumer law matters. Previous in-house experience will be highly regarded. What is key is the ability to work in a fast moving environment and a keen interest in working with an innovative international retail business. It is essential you are a self-starter with strong relationship development skills.

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to join a highly innovative retail business and develop strong stakeholder management skills along with commercial legal expertise.

Please Apply now or further information, please contact Maneesha Howard at Graff Search – maneesha@graffsearch.co.uk