Commercial Legal Officer in London

GlobalData operates an intelligence platform that empowers leaders to act decisively in a world of complexity and change. By uniting proprietary data, human expertise, and purpose-built AI into a single, connected platform, we help organizations see what’s coming, move faster, and lead with confidence. Our solutions are used by over 5,000 organizations across the world’s largest industries, delivering tailored intelligence that supports strategic planning, innovation, risk management, and sustainable growth.

GlobalData is at a pivotal point in its growth journey and we need curious, ambitious, courageous people to support us in achieving our vision to deliver intelligence that transforms uncertainty into opportunity for the world’s most successful organizations. Our big ambitions mean that life at GlobalData is fast-paced, entrepreneurial and rewarding. Working together in an intellectually challenging environment, where learning is super-charged to keep us on our toes, the highly stimulating, fast-paced, global environment we operate in, and our bold ambitions result in unique learning opportunities for our people.

We are looking for an ambitious, experienced and driven Commercial Legal Officer to work with and support our growing non-healthcare Legal and Compliance team in drafting and negotiating commercial contracts (including, but not limited to, data-as-a-service agreements, software as a service agreements, non-disclosure agreements, master service agreements, consultancy agreements, data protection agreements, intellectual property licensing agreements, variations, and public and private procurement contracts), ensuring data protection compliance, enforcing the group’s artificial intelligence policies and procedures, and assisting the head of legal with intellectual property matters where appropriate. A successful candidate will liaise with the wider non-healthcare legal team and commercial stakeholders across the group.

What you’ll be doing:

• Provision of support in the drafting/review/negotiation of commercial documents and agreements.
• Record management: managing the execution of agreements.
• Research: ability to research ad hoc points of law and regulation, assimilate new requirements, advise on them to head of legal and the wider group and lead implementation of them with support from the head of legal.
• Provide support and ensure compliance with global data privacy regimes, using the group’s GDPR-linked policies and procedures as a baseline.
• Monitoring regulatory changes, identifying gaps, supporting the legal team in devising and implementing required actions.
• Drafting new policies and procedures.

What we’re looking for:

• Law degree or equivalent.
• Experience in commercial law (including an understanding of contract law principles).
• Previous experience and good working knowledge of commercial contracts in an in-house setting or in a law firm as a paralegal.
• Experience in UK/EU Data Protection Laws and requirements. International elements will also need to be considered, but the candidate will be fully supported by the legal team.
• Good attention to detail and good organisational skills.
• Good document management skills.
• Hard-working, self-motivated, enjoying diverse tasks and early responsibility.
• Adaptable, friendly, and good team-player; you will be engaging with colleagues both in legal and across the business on a daily basis.
• Someone who works pragmatically, is commercially minded and factors in the needs of the business when providing legal support. Accordingly, commercial awareness is essential.

In addition to a rewarding career, we support our GlobalData colleagues with a range of benefits across health, finances, fitness, travel, tech and more. GlobalData believes strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed. As such, we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. GlobalData is determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.