Legal Counsel
Posted 1 week ago by Diageo
Negotiable
Inside
Remote
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Legal Counsel for Supply and Procurement will provide legal support to the Global Procurement team, focusing on contract negotiations and legal advice for multi-million pound contracts. This role involves delivering training and developing capabilities for in-market legal teams to manage procurement issues effectively. The position requires a lawyer with extensive commercial in-house experience and a strong understanding of compliance risks. The role is fully remote and contracted for six weeks.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide legal leadership and advice on contracts and legal issues for Global Procurement projects.
- Deliver tailored training and resources to GP and in-market legal teams.
- Support local in-market lawyers in developing functional capabilities for procurement issues.
- Manage legal and reputational risks effectively for GP functions.
- Act as nominated legal support for specific project teams and stakeholders.
Key Skills:
- Lawyer admitted to practice in England & Wales, Scotland, Ireland, or equivalent Commonwealth jurisdiction.
- Minimum of 5 years’ PQE or international equivalent in a commercial legal role.
- Experience with commercial contracts, specifically procurement.
- Excellent analytical, contract drafting, and negotiating skills.
- Strong project management and communication skills.
- Understanding of compliance risks, IP, antitrust, and data privacy laws.
- Ability to foresee and assess legal, reputational, operational, and strategic risks.
- Creative problem-solving and innovative solution mindset.
- Strong relationship-building skills with stakeholders.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Job Title: Legal Counsel, Supply and Procurement (Contractor)
Reports To: Lead Legal Counsel, Global Procurement
Location: UK Fully Remote
Contract Length: 6 Weeks
Context / Scope
Sitting within the Global Supply and Procurement (GS&P) legal team, provide legal support for Global Procurement (GP) projects and global functions workstreams, including:
Legal leadership and advice to the GP team on legal issues and contracts including support for timely negotiation of multi-million pound contracts which typically impact multiple markets or jurisdictions
Delivery of appropriate and tailored training, know-how and templates at an appropriate frequency and level to both GP and in-market legal teams.
Support local in-market lawyers with functional capability development to ensure they have the capability and legal resources to deal with Procurement issues in their markets as efficiently as possible.
Together with team, legal support on various issues relating to, for example, reputation risks, group litigation or regulatory issues related to GP as required from time.
Leadership Responsibilities
Nominated legal support for specific project teams, sole accountability for specific procurement stakeholders.
Along with other members of the GS&P legal team, work directly with the in-market legal teams to provide support, develop functional capability and embed Diageo best practice and ways of working in the area of Procurement and other global functions & litigation related legal issues.
Purpose Of Role
Support and lead effective delivery of GP projects and contracts.
Resource and focus to build capability of in-market lawyers and GP colleagues to manage risk and reduce requirement for input from senior lawyers.
Support of productivity agenda especially GP contribution to this.
Top 3-5 Accountabilities
Provide solutions and judgement based on a wider Diageo perspective and experience
Ensure legal and reputational risk is managed effectively by GP function
Ensure legal and reputational risk is managed effectively on specific global issues
Qualifications And Experience Required
Lawyer admitted to practice in England & Wales, Scotland, Ireland or equivalent Commonwealth jurisdiction, with extensive commercial in-house experience gained (minimum of 5 years’ PQE or international equivalent in a commercial legal role);
Ideally some experience with commercial contracts, specifically procurement
Key Functional And Leadership Capabilities
High level of professionalism and integrity, excellent analytical skills and experienced contract drafting & negotiating skills;
Commercial pragmatic approach, with ability to express legal concepts in clear and practical manner;
External lawyer management – understands what work is most effectively staffed internally and externally and the tools to obtain best value in using external lawyers
Capability development – able to develop practical tools and deliver training effectively and instill the right skills within the Global Procurement and market legal teams
Skilled in project management, verbal and written communications
Core understanding of compliance risks, IP, antitrust, data privacy laws and knowing when and how to engage specialist SMEs
Risk – able to foresee and assess legal, reputational, operational and strategic risks, communicate such risks and enable the company to mitigate effectively such risks
Solution mindset – thinks creatively to provide innovative solutions.
Business partnership – builds strong relationships; is actively/consistently consulted by stakeholders.
As a temporary contractor, you'll be employed by our Managed Service Provider, Magnit Global, who manage most of our temporary contract hiring, you will not be employed by Diageo