The Role
An exciting opportunity for a brand-focussed administrator to join Superdry’s highly regarded in-house legal team has arisen. The legal team at Superdry sits at the heart of the business and works in close, trusted partnership with several key business decision-makers. We are proud to be a diverse team of professionals who embrace new and different ways of thinking, learning, and engaging. Our team plays a pivotal and highly visible role in empowering and supporting Superdry to deliver success. The role will support commercial legal, IP and company secretarial matters.
We are looking for a passionate, engaging, delivery-focused person to support and underpin our business-wide legal, brand protection and IP strategy work. Working in close partnership with our teams and external partners around the world, the role covers a broad remit, embracing the way in which Superdry organises and manages its workflows, documents, and deadlines to ensure that we maintain strong levels of document and process management.
The role will report to our Senior Legal Counsel and be primarily based at Superdry’s Head Office in Cheltenham. As a preference you will wish to attend the Head Office location daily but as a minimum you will need to be able to do so three days a week.
You Will
1. Support the commercial legal team with documents and contract management, including database management, contract lifecycle management and the co-ordination of workflows and new instructions in our Legal Hub.
2. Support with all types of team legal admin including printing, scanning and database searching. Support in managing deadlines and activities in across the team. This includes assisting in the printing and collation of documents for signature.
3. Support in the ongoing protection of Superdry’s registered rights by administering the filing and prosecution of new trademarks, domain names and other IP.
4. Become fully entrenched in the management of Superdry’s IP and Brand Protection matter management systems in WebTMS and DH Anticounterfeit.
5. Working with Superdry’s clearance and monitoring technology to identify potential risks to Superdry’s IP.
6. Working with trademark offices, outside counsel and international advisors on the process, procedure and documentation needed to effect trademark registry actions and proceedings worldwide.
7. Supporting in document and evidence collation for IP and brand protection litigation matters.
8. Manage external suppliers, including the budget and invoicing processes.
9. Have an agile approach to work and a flexible approach to who and how you support the Superdry business.
You Are
10. A highly organised and diligent administrator with a strong attention to detail.
11. Experienced in managing a varied workload and excellent in prioritising tasks and competing interests.
12. Not necessarily from a legal background, but have an interest in legal work.
13. Confident of dealing with external counsel and advisors on a global basis.
14. Able to work effectively with technology (with a working knowledge of systems such as IPPO (WebTMS) and Trademark Now being a real advantage), but also competent at reviewing and assessing the benefits of new tech solutions and assimilating and presenting data in an effective and engaging way.
15. A strong and clear communicator who is collaborative in their approach and able to build rapport with key stakeholders internally and externally.
16. Someone with excellent presentation skills.
17. Computer literate, particularly with MS Office.
Working for Superdry has never been so rewarding…
18. 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, we also offer a holiday buying scheme
19. An additional day off to celebrate your Birthday
20. Family is massively important to us, so we have a broad range of family-friendly working policies in place, including enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
21. Company Pension scheme
22. All employees are covered by our Life Assurance policy whilst working at Superdry. We feel it’s important to offer protection for your family and loved ones in such a situation and to support this we offer life assurance cover which pays a lump sum equivalent either twice or four times your annual salary
23. A big staff discount – naturally. Because we know that you love to wear Superdry, you’ll benefit from a 50% discount in store and online
24. Our Head Office is home to our very own store for staff only where you can treat yourself to heavily discounted sample stock
25. A health cash plan is open to all employees.
26. Flexible working and core working hours between 10am – 4pm to help you achieve that all-important work-life balance
27. Access to onsite parking and as part of our sustainable development goals, we have a selection of electrical car parking points freely available to staff.
28. A range of learning and development materials to help you in your career and grow with us
29. We like to give back, so we allow our employees time off for volunteering work
30. A global employee assistance plan in place that you can access anytime you want - it’s free and confidential
31. You’ll also have access to a Cycle To Work Scheme
32. A range of local discounts with businesses across Gloucestershire
At Superdry, everyone has a voice and we want to hear it. We create environments where individuality can flourish and is celebrated as part of who we are as a brand. We’re incredibly proud that over 90% of our people feel strongly that they can be themselves at work.
We want to meet people with varied backgrounds because we understand that diversity of thought encourages new ideas to thrive, fuelling creativity and enabling us to do better work. We want to build a team which represents a variety of backgrounds, styles, perspectives, and skills; we hire people based on their merit and potential.
We also welcome conversations about flexible working for all roles at Superdry and will always accommodate it where possible.