Commercial In-House Lawyer

Commercial In-House Lawyer. This is a telecoms and technology role focusing on commercial and strategic legal and regulatory matters across a group of businesses. Key Responsibilities: Advising business stakeholders across all departments on legal and commercial risk and proposing commercially focused solutions to ensure any potential legal/contractual risks are identified and mitigated. Reviewing, drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts including agreements relating to hardware, software licensing, services, IT support and end user license agreements. Reviewing, drafting and negotiating customer, supplier and consultancy agreements. Managing legal aspects of reseller arrangements and managed service contract. Drafting and advising on data centre contracts and cloud service contracts. Working closely with product and sales teams to draft and negotiate contracts for business products and services. Managing contractual processes from RFP to implementation. Advising the businesses in respect of any disputes brought by or against any of the companies and managing litigation where required. Reviewing and drafting telecommunications agreements such as interconnect agreements, wholesale agreements and roaming agreements. Key Skills & Experience: Essential; Qualified lawyer in any of the United Kingdom, Guernsey, Jersey or the Isle of Man (or another jurisdiction of near equivalent basis, e.g., Ireland, other EU). A minimum of 6 years' post-qualification experience (PQE). Excellent drafting skills. Experience in drafting and negotiating commercial contracts. Highly Desirable: Post qualification in-house experience preferably in the telecoms or technology industries. Data protection experience. Experience in dispute resolution/litigation. Experience of working within a regulated environment is preferred (not necessarily in telecoms, e.g. experience in other regulated industries such as financial services). Commercially focused and willing and able to work alone and progress projects with business and commercial input. Ability to effectively prioritise and manage expectations associated with the wide scope and scale of competing and diverse requirements of the businesses and departments. Ability to explain data protection requirements to non-specialists. Good communication skills with ability to explain impact of legal issues. For a full job description, please contact our team.
If you have the required skills please apply online at searchandselect.com quoting reference number: 15747.