Legal Advisor - Technology

Legal Advisor - Technology

Competitive base salary and benefits package

Oxford

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. OUP is the world's largest university press, publishes thousands of new publications a year, has offices in over 50 countries, and employs over 7,000 people worldwide. It has become familiar to millions through a diverse publishing programme that includes scholarly works in all academic disciplines, bibles, music, school and college textbooks, children's books, materials for teaching English as a foreign language, business books, dictionaries and reference books, and academic journals.

Role Description

This role will report into the General Counsel – Technology and will provide support to technology teams globally across the whole of OUP.

Responsibility will include:

• supporting Group Technology and the publishing divisions on technology projects globally
• drafting and negotiating a wide range of technology agreements (website and other software development, managed services, e-commerce, access control, subscription management, digital learning platforms, SAP)
• training technology project managers on legal matters
• providing advice on a broad range of technology issues affecting OUP
• advising on data protection matters
• providing day-to-day advice to clients of all levels within OUP

Candidate's Profile

Requirements

To succeed in this role, you will need to be a UK qualified solicitor with at least 4 year's relevant post-qualification experience ideally gained in a law firm and in-house. You will need:

• Excellent drafting and problem solving skills
• Excellent organisational skills including the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Excellent interpersonal skills

Previous expirience of drafting and negotiating technology procurement agreements is desirable but not essential

What's on offer

Competitive base salary and benefits package

Where specific UK qualifications are required we will take into account overseas equivalents. All third party applications will be forwarded to Michael Page.

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