About the role
As a Consumer Legal Counsel, you will provide pragmatic legal advice across consumer products, ensuring compliance, managing risk and supporting commercial decision‑making. You will work closely with cross‑functional teams to deliver clear, timely guidance that safeguards consumers and enables the business to innovate confidently.
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Our client is currently looking for a recruit in joining their current team, below are the job details for your reference:
You can also ask our friendly recruitment team for any questions you may have about the role, between 09.00am till 17.00pm Monday to Friday.
Shifts: Monday to Friday (37.5 hours)
Roles and Responsibilities:
High Quality Legal Advice: Deliver high-quality, pragmatic and solution-oriented legal advice across a range of consumer product issues including advertising; FCA regulated product (eg. Loans and/or insurance) experience would be welcomed but nois not essential. Support legal strategy on Consumer Legal Team objectives and strategy. Support compliance with relevant legislation and regulation, safeguarding commercial integrity.
Internal Stakeholder Management: Build strong, collaborative relationships with internal stakeholders across the Consumer Business Unit. Ensure legal advice is aligned with business priorities and delivered in a timely and commercial manner. Encourage cross-functional collaboration across the client's organisation, to achieve strategic outcomes and the goals of the business. Manage and mitigate risk and champion best legal practice.
Risk Assessment and Assurance: Support legal risk assessment across the strategic priorities set out above. Work with robust assurance frameworks to mitigate exposure to regulatory, financial and reputational risks. Advocate for proactive risk identification and assurance across client's business initiatives.
Governance and Continuous Improvement: Contribute to training and guidance for teams across the business on legal topics relevant to the team's key stakeholders. Proactively contribute ideas to drive continuous improvement in legal processes, embedding automation, simplification and scalability to support legal efficiency, and increase business self-serve. Collaborate with stakeholders to refine processes and embed legal best practice.
Other stuff we're potentially looking for:
Legal Expertise: Experience as a qualified lawyer in a leading consumer facing company, telco experience is desirable.
Industry knowledge: Understanding of the technology and telecoms sectors and knowledge of applicable legal trends.
Personal Responsibility: Takes ownership of tasks and cases, and is able to demonstrate their effective progression. Demonstrates a "self-starter" attitude and uses initiative to progess work, seeking guidance where appropriate.
Risk Management: Proactively manages legal risk, balancing risk and mitigations proportionately to enable the business to meet its financial and growth targets. Being prepared to drive process and technology changes, to deliver efficiencies in legal delivery.
Commercial Acumen: Able to apply sound commercial judgement to balance legal risk with business opportunity, to enable strategic decision making aligned with business priorities.
Influential Stakeholder and External Engagement: Possess effective stakeholder management and negotiation skills, enabling influence across internal teams and external parties. Builds trusted relationships that drive alignment and support strategic outcomes.
Analytical Insight and Strategic Communication: Applies legal analysis and data to problems, 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.
What's in it for you? –
Our client loves to reward their people for doing a great job.
This is 1 Year contract.
This role provides a hybrid working access in Speech mark / Newbury (Twice in a week)
Next Steps
Once you've applied, one of our friendly recruitment consultants will give you a call and talk you through the screening process.
If your application is successful, you'll be involved in a live virtual interview with one of our client's hiring managers to get to know you better.
We look forward to speaking to you