Senior Legal Counsel

Our client has an exciting new vacancy for a Legal Counsel offering excellent career advancement in a high profile, international and progressive environment.

As part of the Northern Europe legal team your main responsibility will be to provide in-house legal counsel to members of the UK, Nordic and Benelux Sales organizations but you will also need to liaise closely with peers in other EMEA regions and in the US.

General Roles and Responsibilities:

* Negotiate contracts including license, service and software as a service agreements
* Work closely with Best Practice and Revenue Recognition teams to ensure contracts comply with accounting rules, global licensing policies, US based laws and regulations (e.g. FCPA, SOX) and local law
* Provide legal advice and counsel on regional or country-specific legal issues
* Support the corporate compliance programs, including educating regional employees
* Liaise with outside counsel on region-specific engagements and assist Legal Counsel II and the VP EMEA Legal on litigation engagements
* Undertake ad-hoc projects as directed by the VP EMEA Legal
* Communicate with regional sales managers and customers as appropriate to ensure compliance and involvement in legal issues and processes

Desired Skills & Experience

* Qualifications / Expectations: Solicitor with experience negotiating IT and other commercial contracts
* 2 to 4 years of qualified legal experience ideally with some time spent working in-house
* Experience working in a sales environment preferred
* Excellent written and verbal presentation skills in English (fluency in another European language preferred but not essential)
* Excellent interpersonal communication skills
* Desire to work as part of a global team in a fast paced environment
* Willingness to travel

Pure Recruitment Group Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent roles and an employment business for temporary roles. Pure Recruitment Group Limited aims to promote diversity and equal opportunity through its work - we monitor and evaluate our performance on a regular basis. Please note our advertisements use PQE levels purely as a guide to the minimum level of experience that we anticipate will be needed to fulfil the position. However, we are happy to consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfil the role and they will be considered on an equal basis.