Managing Legal Counsel in London

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

BCG is partnering with our clients to tackle some of the world's biggest and most pressing challenges. Grounded by our values and guided by our purpose, BCGers unlock the potential of those who advance the world. Our Global Legal Team is a key enabler of our firm's success, helping to drive impact and progress across a number of important dimensions.

As a Legal team member, you will work across BCG teams and functions to support our business strategy, provide counsel and expertise, drive legal innovation, and leverage the power of new ways of working.

Responsibilities:

• Be a fully integrated member of BCG's Global Legal Team, with a primary focus on commercial matters, commercial risk identification, and internal process improvement, particularly focusing on BCG's operations in the Nordics with Swedish language skills.
• Serve as champion of BCG contracting and risk management standards.
• Draft, review and negotiate a wide array of complex commercial agreements.
• Implement and help to develop and champion BCG contracting and other policies and processes.
• Provide general counselling and management of a full spectrum of business and legal issues.
• Identify legal, commercial, operational and reputational risk early and recommend practical mitigation strategies.
• Act as bridge and point of contact between functions and business for resolving legal issues.
• Contribute to developing and maintaining Legal Team know-how, templates, technology solutions, and other key enablers.
• Manage and direct consulting teams to ensure compliance with privacy laws including GDPR.
• Use AI and technology responsibly to enhance legal delivery.
• Coach colleagues and business stakeholders on effective, responsible and risk-aware use of legal technology and AI-enabled tools.
• Provide leadership, coaching and guidance to Legal team colleagues and business stakeholders.

What Success Looks Like:

• Complex commercial contracts are negotiated efficiently with clear risk positioning.
• Senior stakeholders seek out and trust your advice.
• Contracting cycle times, consistency and quality improve through scalable templates and responsible AI-enabled workflows.
• BCG contracting and risk management standards are applied consistently across relevant markets.
• You strengthen Legal team capability through coaching and knowledge-sharing.
• You demonstrate measurable impact on risk mitigation and business enablement.

Qualifications:

• Graduate degree (J.D.) in Law from an accredited law school and admitted to practice.
• 10+ years of commercial contracting experience with international exposure.
• 5+ years with a reputable law firm preferable; prior relevant in-house experience preferred.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; English and Swedish fluency.

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law.