Legal Counsel - IP & Data

Are you a data, IP and commercial solicitor looking to work for a large, global, complex and genuinely interesting business? This is an exciting opportunity to join a friendly and supportive in-house legal team, working on high quality, varied work with real commercial significance. Our client is a global organisation that has grown consistently over many years and continues to invest heavily in its own expansion across multiple international sites. It operates in a highly regulated environment, which makes the legal work here both challenging and genuinely interesting. The regulatory picture is complex, the commercial arrangements are sophisticated, and the questions rarely have an off-the-shelf answer.

Why this opportunity:

• A large, established and growing in-house legal team, you will have support, mentorship and colleagues around you from day one.
• High quality work across privacy, IP and commercial, at a level of variety that is rare at this stage of career.
• Genuine international scope, working across multiple jurisdictions in a highly regulated sector.
• A people-focused culture. This is a business that is openly committed to developing and retaining its people, and the length of service across the organisation bears that out.
• Long-term stability alongside growth, an organisation that reinvests continually in its own expansion, with the career progression that creates.
• A strong benefits package, good work life balance.
• The legal team is well established, well regarded internally and unusually stable. Turnover is close to zero, which tells you a great deal about how the team is led and how people are supported in it.

The role:

Providing counsel on a wide range of legal and contractual matters, including:

• Intellectual property, advising on the protection, use and commercialisation of the business's IP, and on IP considerations arising across its operations and third-party arrangements.
• Data privacy and governance, advising on privacy and data protection matters across multiple jurisdictions, and supporting the governance framework that sits around them.
• Commercial contracts, drafting and negotiating a broad range of agreements with suppliers, customers and other third parties, across multiple jurisdictions.
• Effective administration of intellectual property, data privacy and commercial contract matters generally, working closely with stakeholders across the business.

The Person:

Essential:

• 1–3 years' PQE, gained in-house or in private practice.
• Experience across data privacy, intellectual property or governance.
• Strong technical legal and drafting skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Commercial awareness, and the ability to give advice the business can act on.
• Confident engaging stakeholders across a large organisation, including non-lawyers.
• Able to manage multiple matters at once and consistently meet deadlines.
• A can-do attitude and a solutions-focused approach.
• Works well as part of a team and is keen to learn.

Desirable:

• Interest or experience in legal technology and AI.
• Experience of process improvement, including playbook development.
• Multi-jurisdictional or cross-border experience.

Solicitors in private practice making a first move in-house are actively encouraged to apply.

Apply for a confidential discussion including full details of the organisation, the team structure and the package contact Lindsey McCracken at Conekt Legal on lindsey@conektlegal.com, or apply with your CV. Your details will never be shared with any client without your express permission.