Managing Legal Counsel

The Opportunity

The Opportunity
We are seeking a bright, enthusiastic and well-organised lawyer to join our high performing, dynamic and friendly Legal team. The role will involve handling the full range of commercial legal matters in the UK and Ireland, supporting a number of departments across the business, including Delivery, Digital/IT, Marketing, HR and Supply Chain.

What will my accountabilities be?

• Working collaboratively with legal and business colleagues to manage commercial transactions, identify risks and provide solutions-driven, commercial advice including undertaking the following:
  • Preparing, reviewing and negotiating a broad range of commercial agreements including goods and services agreements and data processing agreements.
  • Working collaboratively with the McDelivery team and supporting them with legal queries in relation to our third party operators i.e. UberEats, Deliveroo and Just Eat.
  • Working collaboratively with the IT and Digital teams to provide legal advice on a variety of matters, including preparing agreements with IT/Digital suppliers.
  • Providing IP and marketing law support to the Marketing team in respect of advertising campaigns.
  • Undertaking data protection related work, including advising on GDPR compliance within new projects.
  • Providing day to day advice to colleagues across the business on a wide variety of other commercial issues including but not limited to customer service matters, supply chain matters, employment matters, crisis management and finance, tax and competition law matters.
• Managing, supervising and developing more junior members of the legal team undertaking a variety of commercial legal tasks, including the above.
• Providing legal advice on matters relating to the above commercial areas to the Boards of the UK or Irish McDonalds companies where applicable.
• Pro-actively identifying legal trends and regulatory changes in order to enhance company policies and procedures, develop communication and training programmes and ensure awareness and compliance across the business.
• Participating and contributing to cross-functional working teams on projects involving strategic business initiatives and risk management strategies.
• Working with and managing external lawyers supporting the team on varying projects/matters.

What Team will I be part of and who are my customers?

The Managing Legal Counsel position will serve as a senior member of the Commercial Legal Team supporting all departments across the McDonalds UK and Ireland business, including HR, Marketing and Delivery.