- Advising the Group and Corporate functions on a wide range of domestic and international commercial matters including Procurement, Research and Development, IT, Tax, Treasury, Finance, HR, Corporate Communications, Group Risk and Assurance, and Security.
- Drafting and negotiating a variety of legal documents and commercial contracts. This ranges from standard terms to bespoke agreements. Examples include global and domestic purchase agreements for both goods and services, joint development agreements, utilities and energy purchases, logistics, consultancy agreements, a wide range of technology agreements, including software licences, SaaS agreements, outsourcing agreements, development and system implementations and confidentiality agreements. All aspects of such arrangements are covered, including competition, IP, tax and employment.
- Advising on corporate transactions as required, including M&A, TSAs, divestments etc
- Tracking emerging technologies and advising on legal implications, for example, AI systems, machine learning, open source software etc.
- Work closely with the functions to ensure that appropriate risk management procedures are in place to cover contractual and compliance risk management.
- Able to identify key risks such as data protection, intellectual property, TUPE and IR35 (or equivalent local laws), high risk jurisdictions, sanctions etc.
- Work closely with other members of the JM legal, Ethics and Compliance, Company Secretarial and IP team to ensure global consistency in legal and compliance risk management.
- Providing legal and compliance training (ABC, Financial Crime, Data Protection, Competition and Sanctions).
- Promote JM's Code of Ethics within the Business and an approach to doing business that reflects JM's commitment to doing business ethically, in accordance with its values.
- Managing wide range of improvement and simplification projects and team wide initiatives within legal.
- Creating templates, play books, guardrails for day to day queries from Group functions in order to standardise and simplify
- Managing dispute and negotiation of dispute settlements / litigation management.
- Managing specialist legal services provided by external firms, such as non-UK advice on corporate, commercial, litigation, employment, tax, IP, property and environmental law, settling budgets for advice presented by these firms and managing that legal spend.
- Supporting the development of the more junior members of JM Legal.
- Qualified lawyer with significant experience advising on corporate and commercial contractual matters
- Ideally possess in-house experience with around 2 years+ PQE
- Have worked in an international environment & advising the business outside jurisdiction of qualification
- Experience dealing with Compliance matters is advantageous
- Exposure to data protection, technology, telecommunications, utilities and intellectual property contractual matters
- Experience managing disputes and competition law is desirable
- Experience of working with multiple internal stakeholders simultaneously
- Holds a current UK practicing certificate
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Description
Vacancy: Legal Counsel / Senior Legal Counsel - CommercialLocation: UK Flexible
Job Family: Legal
The role of (Senior) Legal Counsel, Commercial is to provide high quality legal services throughout JM's Group functions. Being a business partner to the organisation and being welcomed into conversations and decision-making. Key to the role is getting to understand the businesses and to develop close working relationships with colleagues across each layer of the organisation to ensure legal compliance and co-ordinated risk management for Group Legal.
Johnson Matthey, a FTSE 250 organisation, is a global leader in sustainable technologies specialising in catalysis, precious metal products, chemicals and process technology. With operations in over 30 countries, we employ more than 12,600 people. We have more 200 years of success behind us; be part of the next stage of our growth journey and help maintain our reputation as one of the most admired organisations in our field. Our unique culture and people give us competitive advantage and will ensure our success for years to come. You can be part of that success story.
Your responsibilities:
We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package including bonus, excellent pension contributions and 25 days annual leave (varies for shift-based roles).
At JM, an inclusive culture is integral to our values and ambitions for the future. We are committed to ensuring that everyone can bring their full self to work and thrive in their career. Welcoming everyone to JM, regardless of their unique characteristics, experiences or thoughts allows us to bring many different voices and experiences together to tackle the world's biggest challenges. Being truly inclusive means that all colleagues feel valued for their differences, views and contributions, and feel a sense of belonging at JM .
Johnson Matthey is open for discussion on part time, job share and flexible working patterns
Closing date for applications: This job advertisement will be posted for a minimum of 2 weeks, early application is advised
For any queries or should you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application please contact . #LI-hybrid #LI-GK1
