Head of Seuk Legal - Chertsey, United Kingdom - Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics

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Chertsey, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Position Summary

Why join our team?
The role is to lead and manage the legal function at Samsung Electronics relating to the UK/I sales and marketing business and all supporting divisions, including:

The Mobile, TV/AV, Display, and Domestic Appliances divisions, including sales, marketing, product management and supply chain management;

The Direct to Consumer division, responsible for direct sales to consumers;
The Corporate Marketing, Social Media, PR and New Business teams;
The Customer Experience team;
The Samsung capital (B2B lending) team; and
The finance, human resources, facilities and other supporting functions.
The role includes the Line management of all lawyers and paralegals working on the legal side of the team. This is currently two Senior Legal Counsel, two Legal Counsel and three Paralegals.
You will report into and be supported by the General Counsel (UK/I).

Role and Responsibilities

Your key responsibilities The majority of the Legal Team's work is noncontentious in nature and involves drafting and negotiating commercial agreements. However, there will be exposure to and involvement in a range of issues, including contentious and regulatory matters.

You will be required to:
lead the negotiation of contracts relating to a wide variety of sales, procurement and other scenarios; provide prompt and detailed legal advice in relation to legal questions and requests for advice raised by business members, including in respect of:

contract interpretation;

disputes;
data protection;
competition law;
intellectual property;
consumer protection;
advertising and marketing;
real estate;
B2B lending;
handle litigation matters; review and approve marketing and advertising materials. You will be expected to build relationships with the senior management of all business teams and ensure that you and the lawyers in the legal team can perform a "business partner" role as follows:

Maintaining good working relationships with the relevant business team(s), attending business team meetings / events where relevant, in order to build relationship with all team members and to understand their strategy and objectives;

Being the first point of call for employees in the business team(s) and providing advice in response; Identifying existing and future legal issues affecting the business team(s), reporting them to others in the Legal Team and the business team(s) to reduce risk; Being proactive to develop advice, guidance and informal training for the business team(s) to reduce risk and add value to their business; Reporting and escalating matters concerning the business team(s) (including any matters requiring board level/leadership team escalation) to the General Counsel (UK/I). You will be expected to have an overview of all legal work carried out by the Legal Team and be available to support all lawyers and paralegals in the team with their work. You will be responsible for ensuring that the Legal Team conducts sensing work to review developments in the law. You will ensure that training is provided to the Legal Team on such developments and to maintain a good working knowledge of relevant legal matters within the team. The Legal Team rarely engages external counsel, and you must be prepared to carry out research and provide advice without the benefit of external advice. You will ensure that the Legal Team's precedent agreements and documents are well maintained and developed. You will develop standard negotiating positions and guidance for the Legal Team and the business to use in negotiations. You will develop training and guidance for the business to use. You will have a close working relationship with the General Counsel UK/I, who will continue to be available to support the management and operation of the legal function (as well the compliance and sustainability functions). You will work with the General Counsel UK/I to develop the Legal Team to ensure that its structure and skill set meets the requirements of the business.

Your key people management responsibilities Provide clarity on strategy, team purpose & value and define the key areas of focus and direction. Support the development of your team through regular mentoring, coaching and feedback, 1:1s and on the job learning opportunities. Role model inclusion for your team to build trust and psychological safety. Ensure communication with your team is a core focus area including cascade of information from LT's and relevant business updates. Manage the on boarding, off boarding process and the entirety of the colleague lifecycle process for all team members. Manage all annual people management cycles such as goal setting, evaluation and salary reviews to a high quality and in a timely manner. To be accountable for ensuring your team are compliant with company processes and procedures; such as compliance, meeting mandatory business cyclical deadlines, and understandin