At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide legal advice, draft contracts, and support compliance for a global online travel business.
- Company: Join a dynamic team focused on enhancing airport travel experiences worldwide.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Fast-paced environment with a focus on innovation and continuous improvement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the travel industry while developing your legal expertise.
- Qualifications: Qualified solicitor with strong contract negotiation and commercial awareness.
The predicted salary is between 50000 - 70000 £ per year.
The Role
This role will be working primarily within the CAVU team.
CAVU is our global online business.
CAVU’s purpose is to find new and better ways to make airport travel seamless and enjoyable for everybody, from the smallest ideas to the biggest changes.
Every day is about creating better travel experiences.
From a revenue-accelerating single platform technology, Propel, through to world-class hospitality venues including 1903 and Escape Lounges, CAVU’s solutions make travel more seamless and enjoyable for passengers and more profitable for clients and partners.
As Legal Counsel, you will support and help the business deliver its commercial objectives by providing practical, risk-based legal advice, drafting and negotiating contracts, supporting legal and regulatory compliance, and embedding effective legal support into day-to-day business decision-making.
The role involves working closely with the Legal team and the wider business to provide commercially focused legal advice.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide commercial legal advice: provide accurate, timely and commercially focused legal advice to CAVU and Airports stakeholders.
- Draft, review and negotiate contracts: manage commercial agreements spanning across Technology, Service Agreements, NDAs, Data, Software Licences and more.
- Support CAVU Experiences, Connect and Commerce: provide legal support across CAVU’s Experiences, Connect and Commerce businesses.
- Support Airports team: support the Airports Legal team on commercial contracts and wider legal issues for the Airports division.
- Support Group team: support the corporate functions within MAG with company secretarial and other corporate matters.
- Build stakeholder relationships: build effective working relationships with colleagues across CAVU, Airports, MAG Legal and wider business teams, providing advice that is clear, practical and aligned to stakeholder needs.
- Support legal operations and continuous improvement: contribute to the development of legal templates, guidance, training, playbooks, process improvements and management information, helping the Legal team deliver efficient, consistent and value-added legal services.
- What Will Make You Successful
- The successful candidate will be a qualified solicitor with a current practising certificate and 24 years post-qualification experience.
- Strong expertise in drafting, reviewing, negotiating and advising on a wide range of commercial contracts, with excellent commercial awareness; able to provide practical, risk-based legal advice and manage a varied caseload with proactive progression and appropriate supervision.
- Strong legal drafting, research, analytical and written communication skills, with sound judgement and a proactive problem-solving approach, recognising when issues require escalation.
- Ability to build strong relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders, prioritise competing demands and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced environment.
- A keen eye for detail, strong IT skills (including experience using AI to support working processes) and a commitment to improving legal processes and ways of working.
- Experience advising on technology, software, e-commerce, digital products, intellectual property, competition law or data protection matters; familiarity with procurement, commercial, product or technology teams; and exposure to regulated sectors such as aviation, travel, hospitality, infrastructure or digital marketplaces is advantageous but not essential.
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Legal Counsel employer: Mag
MAG is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment where innovation meets operational excellence. With a strong focus on employee growth and development, we provide comprehensive training and support to help you thrive in your role as a Technical Operations Engineer. Our commitment to a collaborative culture ensures that every team member's contributions are valued, making it a rewarding place to work in the fast-paced airport setting.
