Legal Counsel

In-House Legal Counsel

Responsible to:

Head of Legal

Department:

JD Group Legal

Location:

Bury Head Office

Role Overview:           

In-House Legal Counsel for the JD Group - NQ – 5 years PQE

Term:

Permanent

The Role:

This is a generalist role where you will be working on a wide variety of commercial contracts with the rest of the Legal Team. We are looking for candidates with experience of reviewing, marking up and negotiating a variety of commercial contracts, including in the following areas: logistics, IT/technology, sponsorship, procurement, marketing and digital. Ideally you will have some experience of working for a retailer, FMCG or consumer facing business.

The Legal Team is dynamic and hard-working. As a member of the team, you will work across the whole JD Group, supporting our business globally.

We inspire our people to reach the highest levels of performance. To achieve these standards, we only recruit the best. All employees are highly skilled, self-motivated and in constant pursuit of commercial and pragmatic solutions for the JD Group.

Key Duties/Responsibilities:

You will advise and support the JD Group on all types of commercial contracts, in addition you may help support our customer services team with customer queries and small claims. You will also work closely with our Compliance team and in particular the Group’s Data Protection Officer so experience in or an interest in data protection and other regulations is an advantage.

Day to day you’ll work closely with business stakeholders from across the JD Group on various commercial contracts.  You will have the chance to work on global projects with cross functional teams and will play a key role in rolling out training, policies and guidelines across the JD Group.

Skills/Experience/Knowledge Needed:

• UK qualified solicitor – NQ to 6 years PQE.
• Training and previous experience in reviewing, drafting and advising on a wide range of commercial contracts within a respectable in-house role or law firm.
• The ability to work with all levels of the JD Group business (including the executive leadership team).
• Good understanding of the evolving regulations particularly relating to data privacy and advertising/marketing standards to be able to provide effective advice to the business.
• An effective communicator with demonstrable negotiating and drafting skills.
• Self-motivated, ambitious, team player with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. Strong attention to detail as well as a commercial mindset with an ability to explain matters clearly and simply to non-legal stakeholders.
• Ability to think outside the box and support the Legal Team and the business in finding effective solutions.

Desirable:

• Experience of working in retail/FMCG/customer facing industry sector would be beneficial.
• An understanding of intellectual property, technology contracts and regulatory matters such as data protection and competition law is beneficial but not required.
• Prior in-house experience (especially in retail) is beneficial but not required.
• Evidence of previous project management skills to successfully deliver projects and initiatives would be an advantage.

The Company:

The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues over 3,400 stores across several retail fascia's in over 30 markets around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

• Incremental Holiday Allowance
• Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
• Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
• Discounted Gym membership
• Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
• Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications

Interested?

If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion

Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.

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