Position Summary
Why join our team?
The role sits within the UK Legal and Compliance team and reports into and is supported by the Senior Legal Counsel who is the key legal support for the Marketing and HR functions. It is a small and friendly legal team headed up by our General Counsel and consisting of three Senior Legal Counsel, two Legal Counsel and three paralegals. This is a general commercial paralegal role covering Samsung UK’s sales and marketing business. The role is broad in nature and will offer legal experience supporting across all elements of the business.
Role and Responsibilities
Your key responsibilities
You will be expected to (with adequate supervision where required):
1. Prepare monthly reports for various divisions on recent legal updates.
2. Prepare and present training to the legal team on key legal and sector updates.
3. Take responsibility for maintaining the Samsung legal precedents and consider any changes to be made to reflect new legislation and case law.
4. Draft and negotiate various service agreements and documents, contribute to conference calls and attend face to face meetings throughout the business.
5. Support all lawyers within the Legal team
Marketing Teams
You will be responsible for acting alongside Senior Legal Counsel as a key legal support for the marketing teams.
You will be responsible for drafting and negotiating a broad range of materials including:
6. Agency services agreements
7. Terms for consumer facing promotions
8. Sponsorship agreements including celebrity endorsements; talent contracts
9. Non-disclosure agreements
10. Loan agreements
11. Cease and desist letters in respect of third party IP infringements
12. Correspondence with the Advertising Standards Authority
13. Assist with the legal approval process by reviewing Samsung adverts and social media posts before they are launched.
You will be expected to advise on a broad range of legal matters including:
14. Pricing practices
15. Sales promotions
16. Marketing assets
Finance and Service Teams and Data Protection
You will be responsible for acting alongside Senior Legal Counsel as a key legal support for the facilities, customer service and finance teams.
17. Provide support to the Data Protection Manager in connection with data protection matters such as responding to data subject access requests and responding to requests from regulatory bodies.
Build and negotiate a range of agreements and legal documents including:
18. Service agreements;
19. Residential lease agreements
20. Terms and conditions;
21. Policies and guidelines;
22. Licence agreements;
23. Letters of authority;
24. Commercial lease agreements;
25. Non-disclosure agreements;
26. Loan agreements;
27. Consumer letters; and
28. Privacy notices.
29. Undertaking compliance due diligence checks of all new vendors registered through the procurement team.
30. Maintaining a document management system for residential lease agreements in addition to reviewing and drafting the same.
31. Responsible for acting as the first point of contact for the product liability team in relation to ad-hoc product liability issues and liaising with external counsel in relation to any product liability claims.
Advice on a wide range of legal topics such as:
32. Commercial terms
33. Data protection
34. Warranties
35. Product liability and consumer claims
36. Financial terms
37. Residential lease issues
Commercial Teams
You will be responsible for acting alongside Senior Legal Counsel as a key legal support for the business' various product divisions, particularly Internet, mobile, consumer electronics and business to business sales.
38. Involvement in large scale contractual negotiations with national/international partners and companies
Drafting and reviewing agreements including:
39. General conditions of sale
40. Terms and conditions
41. Commercial terms
42. Distribution agreements
43. Novation agreements
44. Service agreements
45. Employee incentive agreements
46. Channel partner promotions
47. Data protection agreements/ data sharing agreements
48. Space agreements
49. Non-disclosure agreements
50. Intercompany agreements
51. Legal and technology sector research and analysis
52. Supporting the SEUK legal team in commercial matters and project work as necessary
53. Providing support in general compliance matters and on competition law queries from the business.
Small Claims
Alongside the other Paralegal’s in the team you will be responsible for dealing with all aspects of our small claim’s procedure. This will involve:
54. Liaising with the customer experience teams in order to gather internal evidence and address the claims received
55. Advising the customer service team on relevant legislation
56. Communicating with the Small Claims Court and attending mediations
57. Drafting defences, acknowledgments of service and settlement agreement
What we need for this role
To be successful, you will possess the following skills and attributes:
58. A self-starter with a proactive approach to work
59. Strong attention to detail
60. Strong written and verbal communication skills
61. Confidence in navigating the business and systems
62. Ability to multi-task and work quickly
63. Ability to work independently and collaboratively
64. Enthusiasm to take on new tasks and responsibilities
65. Highly literate in Microsoft word, excel and PowerPoint
66. An interest in technology and business
What does success look like?
67. Organisational skills
68. Strong communication and presentation skills
69. Interpersonal skills
70. Strong teamwork
71. Get stuff done attitude
72. Excel and analytical skills
Skills and Qualifications
Benefits of working at Samsung include
73. Hybrid working - 3 days in the office and 2 days at home per week
74. Bonus scheme linked to individual, team and company performance
75. Healthcare cash plan
76. Income protection
77. Enhanced pension contribution
78. Three volunteering days each year
79. Flexible benefit portal and contribution of £55 per month - including travel insurance, gym membership, season ticket loan, Tastecard, dental insurance and more
80. Holiday - 25 days plus bank holidays and an additional day off for your birthday
81. Access to discounts on a wide range of Samsung products
82. Access to a discount shopping portal
A note on equal opportunities
We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our Company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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