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Senior Corporate Counsel - EMEA, Preston, Lancashire
Client: Magnit
Location: Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Views: 2
Posted: 22.08.2025
Expiry Date: 06.10.2025
Job Description:
Who We Are
Magnit is the evolution of work. Serving hundreds of the world’s most recognizable brands for the past 30+ years, Magnit offers the industry’s first holistic platform for the modern workforce. Magnit’s integrated workforce management (IWM) platform supported by data, software, intelligence, and a best-in-class services team, is key to our clients’ success. It can adapt quickly to regional or industry economic shifts and provides the speed, scale, flexibility, transparency, and expertise required to meet an organization’s contingent workforce management, talent strategy, and broader organization goals. At Magnit, you’ll work with passionate colleagues who collaborate and deliver meaningful results that positively transform the largest companies around the globe.
About the Role
*Please note: This role requires regular travel to London*
The Senior Corporate Counsel will serve as one of our in-house lawyers and compliance experts working in a global organization, focused on our EMEA operations. This position will have primary responsibility for claims mitigation, dispute resolution and representing the company in litigation matters (both directly and with outside counsel). The position is expected to advise the business on a broad range of commercial and regulatory matters and structuring, drafting and negotiating commercial transactions and binding documents within the EMEA region. The Senior Corporate Counsel may be involved with negotiations outside the above-mentioned territory, as well as with liaising directly with other members of the Legal Department globally. This position will work directly with the members of the in-house Legal Department in providing day-to-day advice to Company management on a variety of topics. The Senior Corporate Counsel will be solutions-minded and will lead all matters on both contentious and non-contentious employment law matters.
What You Will Do
* Work closely with the business to resolve legal matters that may arise
* Lead litigation and dispute resolution matters for the business across EMEA, handling these in house where applicable and in the first instance, and appointing outside legal counsel where necessary.
* Provide advice for various corporate functions (e.g., Employment & HR, Compliance, Data Protection, Tax and other matters) as they arise
* Participate in the development of corporate policies, procedures and programs for EMEA and provide ongoing counsel to the business in such areas
* Stay informed of regulatory and legislative changes and other employment law developments and advise stakeholders accordingly
* Assist with interpretation, application/implementation, and staff training related to company policies in EMEA
* Serve as Anti-Money Laundering Officer for the company in EMEA.
* Support and develop the Legal & Contracts functions in EMEA; support and advocate for skill development within the team.
What You Will Need
* Minimum of 4+ years’ experience in an in-house law department
* Strong contract negotiation experience with the ability to prioritize in a fast-paced environment
* Proven track record in dispute resolution and litigation
* Experienced and confident negotiator, attention to detail, commercial lawyer
* Experience supporting and advising clients with a global workforce
* Practical, innovative, progressive, hands-on, and customer-oriented professional
* Experience in developing legal forms
* Confident in leading areas of law for the EMEA Legal organization: intellectual property, litigation, employment, RFPs, consulting agreements, NDAs, purchasing, compliance, and corporate governance
* Excellent research, organizational, and project management skills, capable of handling multiple tasks timely
* Qualified with at least 3 years PQE
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