Lead Counsel - Business Product

What you’ll do

The Lead Counsel for Vodafone Business (B&C) Products & Services, reports to the Group Head of Legal (Intellectual Property, Products & Services) and plays an active role on their Management Team, delivering change programmes and driving Spirit behaviours. This leader also plays a key role on the Global Business Products & Services Leadership Team, acting as business partner to the Global Products & Services Director and their direct reports. The individual will manage a team responsible for delivering legal advice and support to Vodafone Business across all B&C Products & Services portfolios and will lead on related strategic projects.

• Provide expert legal advice and strategic business partnering to the Business Products & Services Director and their Leadership Team members, covering commercial, product and technology law and regulation and related areas of compliance and risk including antitrust, IP, and privacy.
• Lead team responsible for advising on Vodafone Business B&C Products & Services and structuring and negotiating related strategic programmes. Provide legal advice to board directors and senior business stakeholders.
• Develop strong business partner relationships with key leaders across Legal & Business Integrity, Group External Affairs, Vodafone Local Markets, Commercial Shared Operations and Vodafone Business to enable the delivery of Group B&C Business Products & Services in an effective, efficient and compliant way.
• Create and chair cross-functional forums and working groups to share best practice and implement change. Lead transformation initiatives in order to improve operational excellence, enable growth and support Vodafone Business in earning customer loyalty.
• Play a proactive role in the Legal & Business Integrity Products & Services Management Team, taking on responsibility for sponsoring change programmes and projects to drive improvements, Spirit behaviours and engagement year on year.

Who you are

• Legally qualified with significant experience gained either in-house or at a leading law firm
• Expert knowledge of commercial and product law and regulation with compliance and risk experience a plus
• Strong drafting and negotiating experience, with ability to provide innovative legal solutions in a fast-moving industry
• A strategic thinker with a proven ability to influence business strategy and protect reputation.
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills. Proven ability to give specialist advice to commercial colleagues in order to drive decisions and resolve immediate, complex and strategically important issues.

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about Inclusion for All and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help you see how your skills fit in.

What's in it for you

We want you to feel happy and fulfilled at work, without compromising the other things in life that matter to you. There are lots of ways we support this, including hybrid working and generous parental leave. You'll also get four Spirit Days a year to focus on your personal development and wellbeing, plus a host of other great benefits too.

• Discretionary yearly bonus: 20%
• Company car: company funded car of £580 per month + private fuel or cash alternative of £630 per month.
• Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays + the opportunity to buy/sell/carry over 5 days/year
• Charity days: 5 days/year
• Maternity/adoption leave: 52 weeks out of which the first 13 weeks are fully paid followed by 26 weeks of half pay and 6 months - working 4 days, getting paid 5
• Paternity leave: 16 weeks fully paid
• Private medical family plan: fully paid
• Private pension: You can contribute up to 5% of your basic pay with 2:1 matching from Vodafone up to 10%.
• Access to: private dental, free health assessments, share save scheme
• Additional discounts: Vodafone retail, gym, cinema, cycle to work, season ticket loan

Who we are

You may have already heard of Vodafone - We're a leading Telecommunications company in Europe and Africa. But what you might not know is that we are continuously investing in new technologies to improve the lives of millions of customers, businesses and people around the world, creating a better future for everyone.

As part of our global family, whether that's Vodafone, Vodacom or _VOIS, you'll feel a sense of pride and purpose as you contribute to our culture of innovation. We pursue equality of opportunity and inclusion for all candidates through our employment policies and practices. We recognise and celebrate the importance of diversity and inclusivity in our workspace and we do not tolerate any form of discrimination especially related to but not limited to race, colour, age, veteran status, gender identification, sexual orientation, pregnancy, ethnicity, disability, religion, political affiliation, trade union membership, nationality, indigenous status, medical condition, HIV status, social origin, cultural background, social, or marital status.

Together we can.