Regulatory Legal Counsel (Hybrid) in Glasgow

Excellent opportunity for a Corporate/Commercial Lawyer to join an award-winning global technology company. Exceptional, high-class legal work on offer with a truly international company. This role will be based in Glasgow with a hybrid-working model on offer.

You will join as an Associate Corporate Counsel and will be a key member of the EMEA Legal function, providing cross-regional legal support on a wide range of commercial, compliance and regulatory matters. The role will initially focus on the UK, Ireland and the Nordics and will also support other EMEA regions as the team continues to harmonise services and share expertise.

You will help the business reach commercial outcomes with integrity by simplifying complexity and providing practical legal advice that enables sound business decisions. Your core focus will be commercial contracts, particularly public sector (including NHS) tenders, and strategic supply-chain arrangements within the EMEA region. You will also advise on a broad range of other related matters, including compliance, regulatory issues, claims and disputes.

From time to time, you will advise on other legal matters, including data privacy and competition law, leveraging the relevant legal SMEs in the organisation, as appropriate. You will also help improve how the team works by contributing to process improvement, playbooks, templates, knowledge re-use and automated legal solution strategy, using technology (including AI) and standardisation as force multipliers to reduce friction and rework.

You will report to the Regional EMEA North Legal Lead, and work closely with other lawyers across EMEA Legal, and with Division Counsel across the business. You will also partner with Finance, Procurement, IP, Quality, Regulatory, and other support functions across the EMEA region to help leaders frame issues, evaluate trade-offs, agree guardrails and mitigations, and escalate material risk or reputation issues early and clearly.

• Review high-value government contracts and public tender opportunities and provide strategic guidance on risk, including decision-ready options, recommended pathways and practical mitigations.
• Draft and negotiate complex agreements across the organisation, including sales agreements, strategic supply agreements, collaboration and joint venture agreements, IT agreements, co-marketing agreements and term sheets, using clear, business-friendly language and approved standard positions/playbooks where appropriate.
• Manage disputes, settlements and litigation support through timely triage, fact-based escalation and clear recommendations on the decision required.
• Educate and train employees in their contractual and legal rights and obligations, including the need for effective early engagement with Legal, proportionate risk management and practical use of templates, playbooks and self-service tools, as well as helping the business to think through issues while retaining ownership of its own business decisions.
• Actively contribute to the team’s process improvement and automated legal solution strategy (including the appropriate use of AI), updating playbooks, templates, and workflow to improve support.
• Propose pragmatic solutions, mitigations and monitoring rather than defaulting to 'no' where risk can be responsibly managed.
• Partner with the Contracting Centre of Excellence (CCoE) to assist the CCoE in managing matters on behalf of EMEA Legal North team, as well as promoting the reuse of approved positions, and clarifying escalation thresholds and lessons learned.
• Collaborate with EMEA Legal colleagues and Division Counsel across all Groups on EMEA matters and initiatives, building alignment across functions and regions, resolving conflicts and reinforcing consistent Business Player principles and messaging.

Qualified Lawyer (in the UK) with circa 7+ years’ PQE, preferably in-house or in a full-service international law firm, advising life sciences, fast-moving consumer goods or other multinational businesses. Legal drafting capability and the ability to provide pragmatic, commercially astute and plain-English advice on contractual risk across a variety of commercial contracts, including basic intellectual property and IP licensing issues, with clear options, recommendations and mitigations.

Commercial awareness and business judgment, with the ability to engage and influence business stakeholders as a trusted partner, balancing speed, growth, integrity, risk and reputation. Ability to prioritise work based on business needs and manage multiple key projects simultaneously through effective resource utilisation. Decision quality and risk stewardship, including sound judgement on risk tiering, escalation discipline, proportionality and when to accept, mitigate or escalate material exposure. Able to travel occasionally within EMEA.

On offer is a highly competitive salary and benefits package including bonus and pension.