Senior Legal Counsel

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Job Purpose and Summary

Canon Europe are looking for a Senior Legal Counsel. In this role, you will provide legal advice and assistance in support and furtherance of the Canon EMEA Business Unit(s), ensuring compliance with relevant regional, national laws, regulations, and Canon internal policies. You will also support multidisciplinary projects.

Case Management (Process Legal Issues):

• Draft and negotiate a broad range of agreements including sales, partnership, distribution, and SaaS agreements.
• Manage a variety of legal work and tasks, generally with minimal supervision (except where subject otherwise requires), which may include compliance (competition law, consumer law, data privacy law), review or steer review by a junior legal team member of multinational contracts, review of marketing campaigns and materials (including advertising & promotions), dispute resolution, and corporate compliance at UK HQ.

Support (Provide Project Assistance):

• Support and implement contracting strategies for new product launches.
• If required, participate in legal working groups within the Canon EMEA territory and assist on local or regional issues as required from time to time.
• Support internal projects, trainings, and processes and drive cross-functional efforts.
• Design, build, and improve legal department processes.

Risk Management (Provide Legal Analysis):

Review and assess risk/legal implications of relevant company strategies & activities, making recommendations for change as required, and ensure appropriate reporting to manager. Develop standard guidance, and deliver compliance training for business and, when required, Canon EMEA Legal Team.

BU/NSO Support

Develop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of the Business Unit objectives, drivers, and threats in order to provide proactive, contextualized legal advice to and for the Business Unit while interfacing with National Sales Organisations (NSO) to ensure a consistent understanding of both central and NSO concerns and opportunities.

Support in resolving complex issues in BU area of responsibility based on existing solutions and procedures or proposing improvements to such solutions and procedures.

Serve as a resource for Legal competence centres (such as Privacy/Competition etc) across the EMEA teams or specified projects.

Train/mentor junior employees.

What we give

With Canon, you'll get the support and encouragement you need to grow, from people who share your ambition. We'll invest in your professional development to help you learn and progress in your role with us. You'll find leaders who give you the freedom to explore new things and a team where knowledge is shared openly.

At Canon, we have a clear vision: to be committed to creating a more inclusive and equitable culture where employees are valued and can thrive personally and professionally.

Canon also has a strong commitment to sustainability, encompassed by our Kyosei philosophy of living and working together for the common good, focused on reducing our environmental impact and creating opportunities to make a positive social contribution.

Here are some of the benefits we offer at Canon to support our employee's wellbeing:

• Annual Bonus and annual pay review.
• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office and 2 days from home.
• Flexible core hours - starting anytime between 07:30am and 10am and finishing any time after 16:00, providing the standard 7.5 hours have been worked.
• Minimum of 25 days of personal holiday per year with up to 5 days of available holiday purchase.
• Generous Pension Scheme.
• Private Healthcare and wider medical plan.
• Up to 38% Discount on Canon products.
• Flexible benefits policy.
• Free parking on site.
• Excellent Subsidized restaurant.
• Highly Subsidised Costa Coffee on site.
• Multi-Faith room.
• Discounted rates at Nuffield Health Gym.
• Partnership with Mental Health First Aid UK with a network of mental health champions.
• Great transport links - Elizabeth Line and Stockley Park low-cost Shuttle Bus.
• Learning & Development Opportunities.

You will be part of an energetic and innovative environment with more than 50 different nationalities at our state-of-the-art EMEA HQ at Stockley Park, Uxbridge.

What we ask

• A qualified lawyer, preferably in one of the following jurisdictions: any of the EU member states, UK, Switzerland, or Norway with 5+ PQE.
• Proven experience in competition law, consumer law, privacy law, and general contracting law. IT/IT solutions experience is a plus.
• Relevant working experience in a law firm (preferably with some direct exposure to in-house counsel work), or as an in-house counsel in an international company.
• In addition to relevant local language(s), proficiency in English at a business and negotiation working level required; where English is local language, business proficiency in a second European language not essential but welcome.
• Business and commercial knowledge.
• Basic competency in relevant computer systems & package.

You will need

• Apply High Standards of Accuracy.
• Apply Business Acumen.
• Communicate Effectively.
• Create Solutions to Problems.
• Focus on the Customer.

Further Information

Our offices are based in Stockley Park, Uxbridge.

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