Overview
Senior Legal Counsel, ESG & Regulatory at Primark.
Responsibilities
In your role, you’ll collaborate with different people across a range of skillsets. Here’s a flavour of your day-to day:
* Provide rigorous and robust legal advice and direction to senior leaders and key stakeholders across a broad range of legal, ethical and governance matters.
* Work cross functionally to effectively manage ESG and regulatory matters, ensuring inputs from key stakeholders are obtained and taken into account, and alignment of expectations.
* Stay up to date on recent and upcoming changes in relevant laws and regulations and proactively identify legal risks, opportunities and solutions.
* Lead legal compliance initiatives, ensuring adherence to regulatory standards and industry best practices.
* Support the delivery of our sustainability strategy and compliance with our ESG reporting requirements.
* Help develop and deliver legal training and updates to all levels of the business.
* Lead on the drafting, review and negotiation of a variety of agreements, contracts and legal documents, ensuring they protect the best interests of the business, maximise value and manage legal risk.
* Build a strong external network of relationships with peers to benchmark legal approach, share best practice and support ESG initiatives.
* Effectively collaborate with and manage external law firms as required, managing timelines and budgets to ensure maximum value for the business, building relationships with trusted external advisors across multiple territories, and coordinating external advice for a non-legal audience.
Qualifications
Here at Primark, we want everyone to feel valued – so please bring your authentic self to work, of course with some other key experience and abilities for this role in particular:
* Qualified Solicitor with at least 7-10 years PQE.
* Must have experience of private practice in UK or Ireland.
* UK and/or EU regulatory experience, preferably across multiple jurisdictions, with a good understanding of consumer and ESG related regulations.
* Litigation experience would be favourable to this role, in particular managing regulatory investigations and advice.
* Broad general commercial experience, retail experience preferred but not essential.
* Experience in coordinating and managing large projects and contributing to their success.
* Capable of applying a rigorous legal interpretation to ESG and Regulatory matters, without compromising the business.
* Highly organised, detail-oriented, possessing the ability to effectively prioritise matters whilst meeting deadlines with minimal oversight and guidance.
* Self-motivated with the ability to be comfortable in an agile role.
* Excellent attention to detail and an ability to analyse and interrogate complex or large amounts of information while demonstrating an ability to focus on and convey important matters.
Benefits
* Healthcare
* Pension
* Potential bonus
* 27 days of leave, plus bank holidays, with the option to buy 5 more
* Tax Saver Tickets
* Fitness centre
* Subsidised cafeteria
About Primark
At Primark, people matter. They’re the beating heart of our business. We’ve grown from our first store in Dublin in 1969 to a £9bn+ turnover business with over 80,000 colleagues and over 440 stores in 17 countries today. Our values are Caring, Dynamic, and Together.
Accessibility and background checks
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