Senior Legal Counsel

• Salary: Attractive Salary
• Job Type: Permanent
• Sector: Professional Services
• Reference: 42700

Senior Legal Counsel – Commercial & Regulatory

Location: Redhill / Hybrid
Salary: 95,000–120,000
Experience: 5–8+ years PQE

The Opportunity

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Senior Legal Counsel to join a growing, consumer-focused business based in Redhill.

This is a broad, high-impact in-house position offering the opportunity to become a key legal adviser to the business and work closely with senior leadership and stakeholders across multiple functions.

The successful candidate will provide commercially focused legal advice across a diverse range of matters, including commercial contracts, consumer and marketing law, intellectual property, regulatory issues, product development, disputes and data protection.

This role would suit a commercially minded solicitor who enjoys operating in a fast-paced environment and wants genuine ownership, autonomy and exposure to senior decision-makers.

Key Responsibilities

Act as a trusted legal adviser to senior management and key business stakeholders.

Provide practical advice on commercial, regulatory and operational legal matters.

Draft, review and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements, including supplier, technology, SaaS, partnership, marketing and licensing contracts.

Advise on contractual risk, including liability, indemnities, termination, intellectual property, data protection and service levels.

Own and maintain customer-facing Terms & Conditions, promotional terms, policies and other legal documentation.

Advise on consumer protection, advertising and promotional requirements.

Review marketing campaigns, customer communications, website content and promotional activity from a legal perspective.

Provide legal input into new products, services, technology and business initiatives, applying a legal-by-design approach.

Advise on intellectual property matters, including trade marks, licensing, brand protection and potential infringements.

Manage disputes, threatened claims and pre-action matters, instructing external counsel where appropriate.

Provide legal support on complex UK GDPR and privacy matters.

Identify material legal risks and work with relevant stakeholders to ensure appropriate mitigation.

Instruct and manage external legal advisers where specialist expertise is required.

Provide legal training and guidance to teams across the organisation.

Help develop efficient processes for managing legal risk and reducing unnecessary reliance on external counsel.

About You

You will be an England & Wales qualified solicitor with approximately 5–8+ years PQE, ideally with a strong commercial and in-house background.

We are particularly interested in candidates with:

Strong commercial contracts experience.

Previous in-house experience, ideally within a consumer-facing, digital or regulated environment.

Experience advising on consumer law and marketing/advertising requirements.

Good knowledge of intellectual property and data protection.

Excellent drafting, negotiation and stakeholder management skills.

The ability to provide clear, practical and commercially focused advice.

Confidence working independently and managing a varied legal workload.

The ability to engage effectively with senior management and non-legal stakeholders.

Experience within promotional activity, competitions, gaming, lotteries or similarly regulated consumer sectors would be advantageous, but is not essential.

What’s on Offer

95,000–120,000 salary, depending on experience.

Hybrid working arrangement.

Broad and varied in-house legal remit.

Significant exposure to senior leadership.

Genuine opportunity to influence the development of the legal function.

High level of autonomy and responsibility.

Opportunity to join a growing and commercially ambitious organisation.

Apply Now

If you are an experienced commercial solicitor looking to take the next step in your in-house career and are attracted to a broad, commercially focused role with significant autonomy, please get in touch for further information.

All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence.

Contact

Kerry Gillitt
Head of Practice - Professional Services

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