VodafoneThree: Senior Legal Counsel
Location: London or Newbury + Hybrid
Salary: Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits
Working Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week – Monday to Friday
Hybrid working arrangement: work in the office 2‑3 days each week, for at least 8 days per month. Work with line manager to understand expectations.
What You’ll Do
The Senior Legal Counsel role involves leading strategic compliance across Mobile (including the Consumer Value Brands), ensuring the delivery of high‑quality legal advice. The successful candidate will have broad legal experience and be required to support all VodafoneThree Consumer mobile products, and other key projects, as required. The successful candidate will build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, ensure legal compliance, and mitigate risks across Mobile and Consumer Value Brands. They will also support the Lead Counsel to develop a high‑performing legal team, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
* Strategic compliance leadership: Lead compliance for Mobile and Consumer Value Brands; act as principal legal advisor to senior and cross‑functional stakeholders.
* High‑quality legal advice: Deliver pragmatic, solution‑focused legal counsel for Mobile/CVB products; ensure marketing/advertising compliance with brand strategy.
* Stakeholder management: Build collaborative relationships across legal, product, marketing, compliance, security, commercial and regulatory teams; provide timely, business‑aligned advice.
* Risk assessment & assurance: Identify and mitigate legal risks; ensure regulatory compliance and embed controls into customer journeys and campaigns.
* Governance & continual improvement: Embed legal governance, deliver training, and drive efficiency and self‑service in legal processes.
* Horizon scanning: Monitor regulatory/legislative changes affecting mobile, advertising and brand activity; advise on impacts and coordinate with Government Affairs on consultations.
* Team development & integration: Support Lead Counsel in developing staff, integrating legacy teams into a single operating model, aligning resources to priorities, and promoting inclusion and professional growth.
Who You Are
The ideal candidate will have significant PQE experience as a qualified lawyer (or appropriate equivalent experience) in a leading telco, with extensive commercial experience and a deep understanding of the telecoms sector. They should possess strong stakeholder management skills, commercial acumen, and the ability to manage legal risk in strategic projects. They will also be a strong team player, with proven ability to support leadership and develop more junior team members. Key performance indicators include timely delivery of legal advice, positive stakeholder feedback, effective risk management, and strong team engagement.
* Legal Expertise: Significant PQE experience as a qualified lawyer in a leading telco (or equivalent experience), with extensive commercial experience.
* Industry knowledge: Deep understanding and experience within the technology and telecoms sectors, and good knowledge of legal trends within the telecoms industry.
* Risk Management: Proven ability to manage legal risk, balancing risk and mitigations proportionately to enable the business to meet its financial and growth objectives whilst also delivering the right outcomes for the consumer. Ability to drive process and technology changes to deliver efficiencies in legal delivery.
* Commercial Acumen: Applies sound commercial judgement to balance legal risk with business opportunity to enable strategic decision making aligned with business priorities. Able to bring the voice of the customer into the decision‑making. Brings deep commercial experience to make connections and provide additional insight that enrich business decision making.
* Influential Stakeholder and External Engagement: Possesses strong stakeholder management and negotiation skills, enabling effective engagement and influence across internal leadership and external parties including strategic suppliers, industry forums and regulators. Builds trusted relationships that drive alignment and achieve strategic outcomes.
* Analytical Insight and Strategic Communication: Applies advanced legal analysis to complex problems and data to extract critical insights and shape pragmatic solutions. Communicates outcomes with clarity and precision, tailoring messages appropriately to diverse audiences to support confident decision‑making across the business.
* Delivery: Experience in facilitating the delivery of high‑quality legal services across the business as a trusted enabler and partner.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and actively encourage individuals with disabilities to apply. 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.
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 more. We help with your career through 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.
Accessibility
If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, please refer to the Accessibility section of our Careers website (https://careers.vodafone.com/uk/reasonable-adjustments/) for guidance.
Recruitment Process
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.
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