Location: Farnborough/Newbury/Bristol + Hybrid
Salary: Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits
Working Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week – Monday to Friday
Security Clearance: This position requires you to hold or the ability and willingness to obtain a UK Developed Vetting (DV) clearance.
Overview
Hybrid working: work both in the office and at home. You should come into the office 2-3 days each week, for at least 8 days per month. You should work with your line manager to understand expectations for your role and team.
We believe in collaboration, inclusion and building a workplace where different perspectives are welcomed and everyone feels safe to be themselves.
What You’ll Do
We’re looking for a seasoned, qualified lawyer with solid post qualification experience, ideally from a leading telco or from the public sector, national security, or government. You’ll bring strong commercial know‑how and an understanding of how these sectors work in practice. You’ll build trusted relationships, balance commercial goals with legal risk on complex, strategic projects, and coach more junior colleagues. Success will be measured by delivering timely, high‑quality legal advice, receiving positive stakeholder feedback, managing risk effectively, and keeping the team engaged and motivated.
* Strategic Compliance Leadership: Provide leadership for legal and compliance matters across VBSE, acting as a principal advisor to senior executives and key stakeholders on VBSE and wider business issues.
* High Quality Legal Advice: Lead and oversee the delivery of pragmatic, solution‑oriented legal advice aligned to VBSE business objectives.
* Internal Stakeholder Management: Build strong, collaborative relationships across legal, commercial, finance, security, compliance, technical and regulatory teams, ensuring timely and business‑aligned legal input and early engagement to support compliant delivery of VBSE objectives.
* Risk Assessment and Assurance: Identify, assess and mitigate legal risks across VBSE, ensuring compliance with applicable legislation, standards and frameworks, and embedding appropriate controls to protect brand integrity and customer trust.
* Governance and Continuous Improvement: Embed effective legal governance across VBSE, provide training and guidance to business teams, and champion continuous improvement to enhance legal efficiency, self‑service and best practice adoption.
* External Stakeholder Management: Develop and maintain strategic relationships with regulators, government bodies, industry forums and external legal advisers, representing VodafoneThree on VBSE and security/government matters and influencing outcomes aligned with business objectives.
* Horizon Scanning: Monitor and advise on regulatory and legislative developments impacting VBSE, identifying risks and opportunities, and working with Government Affairs on consultations, lobbying and legislative change.
* People Development and Culture: Support the development of senior and junior legal team members, contribute to the integration of legacy Vodafone and Three teams through a “best of both” approach, and foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, inclusion and continuous improvement aligned to business priorities.
Who You Are
* Legal Expertise: Senior qualified lawyer with significant post qualification experience within a leading telecoms, technology, or similarly regulated environment, bringing extensive commercial and regulatory expertise.
* Security Clearance: Holds, or is willing and eligible to obtain, Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance.
* Industry Knowledge: Deep understanding of the government, national security, and/or technology and telecoms sectors, with strong awareness of legal and regulatory trends impacting the telecoms industry.
* Risk Management: Proven ability to manage legal risk proportionately, balancing mitigation with commercial objectives to support growth while delivering positive consumer outcomes. Experienced in driving process and technology improvements to enhance efficiency in legal service delivery.
* Commercial Acumen: Applies sound commercial judgement to enable strategic decision making, effectively balancing legal risk with business opportunity and incorporating the voice of the customer. Leverages deep commercial insight to add value and enrich business decisions.
* Stakeholder and External Engagement: Highly skilled in stakeholder management and negotiation, influencing senior internal leaders and engaging effectively with external parties including regulators, strategic suppliers, and industry forums to build trusted, aligned relationships.
* Analytical Insight and Communication: Provides advanced legal analysis on complex issues, extracting critical insights to develop pragmatic solutions. Communicates advice clearly and precisely, tailoring messages to diverse audiences to support confident decision making.
* Delivery: Experienced in enabling the consistent delivery of high quality legal services, operating as a trusted business partner and adviser across the organisation.
Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly?
We know that everyone is unique, with multiple aspects to their identity and different experiences behind them. We are passionate about Inclusion for All and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help you see how your skills fit in.
We believe that everyone has valuable contributions to make. As a Disability Confident Employer, we actively encourage individuals with disabilities to apply for positions within our team. Through the ‘Offer an Interview’ scheme, we aim to offer interviews to a fair and proportionate number of applicants with disabilities who best meet the essential criteria for our vacancies. If you would like to participate in the scheme, you will have the opportunity to indicate this on your application.
What We Offer
We care about our people’s success by offering great pay, bonuses, up to 28 days off plus bank holidays, and paid time for charity work. You can personalise our benefits for you and your family, like discounts, vouchers, a pension plan and loads more. We help with your career through our amazing learning tools and top‑notch parental leave policies.
Need to Know
We are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and all offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet the regulator’s standards.
If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, a sign language interpreter, or assistive technology, please refer to the Accessibility section of our Careers website for guidance.
We use AI in different parts of our business to boost innovation, improve efficiency, and create new opportunities. We know many candidates use AI to fine‑tune their CVs or prepare for interviews, but what we really care about is your unique experiences and achievements.
During the interview, we want you to rely on your own knowledge and skills to show us who you really are—your personality, creativity, and abilities. Above all, we’re looking for authenticity and can’t wait to get to know the real you.
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