Senior Legal Counsel - Brand Legal, Digital & Technology
Legal Counsel & Legal Support·Updated on Nov 13·
Full-time£75k /yr
About the Job
Requirements
Be an English law-qualified lawyer with at least 4 years of post-qualification experience, gained in private practice or an in-house legal environment.
Have in-house experience supporting a global brand on multi-jurisdictional matters.
Have experience advising on technology and digital projects, including software licensing, data privacy, and e-commerce.
Have a strong technical grounding in commercial, marketing, and contract law.
Have experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts for UK and international markets, such as non-disclosure agreements, influencer, sponsorship, event, and agency agreements.
Have strong written and verbal communication skills and be able to collaborate with stakeholders at all seniority levels.
Have a pragmatic, solutions-focused mindset and the composure and time-management skills to manage tight deadlines.
Be highly organised, responsive, and comfortable working in an agile, dynamic environment, remaining flexible as business priorities change.
Be self-motivated and able to work autonomously while knowing when to escalate key issues.
Be able to juggle competing priorities and deliver work at pace.
Responsibilities
Provide legal business-partner support to the Digital and Technology teams, advising on user experience and consumer law compliance for digital services, subscriptions, and promotions.
Independently review, negotiate, and draft creative services and public relations agency agreements, influencer and talent agreements, sponsorship contracts, intellectual property licence agreements, business-to-business contracts, and collaboration and partnership deals.
Advise internal commercial teams on campaign compliance, marketing copy, prize promotions, direct marketing, consumer law, and CAP Code compliance.
Work alongside senior sales, marketing, and creative leads on advertising matters and commercial decisions.
Deliver regular training sessions to the business and support the development of legal knowledge and expertise within the business.
Collaborate with global, regional, and cross-functional teams, including Finance, Digital, Intellectual Property, Data Privacy, Ethical Compliance, and Corporate Security.
Support the supervision and development of future trainee solicitors within the team.
Identify legal and commercial risks and propose practical mitigation strategies.
Apply escalation frameworks to determine when matters should be referred to the Commercial Lead or other senior lawyers.
Support the Commercial Lead in implementing and maintaining contract playbooks, fallback positions, and approval matrices.
Contribute to the creation and maintenance of internal governance and delegation frameworks, and ensure ongoing alignment.
Desired Qualifications
Experience in the beauty or fast-moving consumer goods sector is highly desirable.
Meticulous attention to detail.
An ambitious and collaborative approach, delivering legal support in a friendly and approachable manner.
Diversity matters
We are building a brand that represents the people of the world. It’s what you do that counts, and we are always looking to expand perspectives and voices to shape our future.
We see you, we celebrate you, we want you!
Who we are You might know us as the inventors of the bath bomb, but there’s more to this great-smelling, partly employee-owned, family-run company than pioneering cosmetics. We believe our business should put more back into the world than it takes and demonstrate that capitalism can be a force for good.
The Living Wage Foundation’s statement 'a hard day's work deserves a fair day's pay' is one that we are proud to commit to in the UK. As an accredited Living Wage employer, we put our people first and fight cruel practices like animal testing, promote regeneration, and show that it is what’s inside that counts - whether that’s an ingredient in a product, or the minerals in a smartphone.
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Legal Community Vision
A proactive and fully integrated legal network that fiercely protects Lush and it’s people while leading with integrity and care to drive forward the Lush vision.
Recognising speed and dynamism as our superpower at Lush, our legal teams collaborate with all business areas contributing expert advice with a reliable, solutions-focused output that aligns with Lush’s values, removes barriers, enhances efficiency, minimises risk, and fosters innovation - ensuring legal expertise is not just a safeguard but a strategic asset that fuels success.
By sharing expertise and developing talent from within, we create a culture of collaboration, shared learning, inclusivity and empowerment.
The Team
The Legal Brand Team provides commercial support to multiple business units within the Lush group, including PR, Communications, Concepts & Collaborations, B2B, Events, Marketing, Brand and Digital (consumer-facing projects) and associated marketing, creative, and partnership teams.
The Role
Not only famous for vibrant, Fresh, Handmade products, Lush is a brand that isn’t afraid to be bold about the things We Believe in; and in a changing world of consumerism, we are rising to the challenge of diversifying our brand and marketing strategies to meet the needs of our customers globally.
We are looking for an outstanding lawyer with experience in marketing and commercial contracts who is commercially astute and passionate about business partnering to join our in-house Brand Legal team, providing strategic legal support to our key commercial teams in the UK and across the Lush Group.
Our commercial colleagues describe their ideal lawyer as hands-on, super sharp, solutions-focused, flexible, friendly, and up for a challenge!
This role will provide first-class service as a strategic legal business partner to our Digital and Tech teams, advising, steering and unblocking legal challenges to enable the fast pace innovation and global digital consumer marketing strategies being developed by these teams. As a small dynamic team, we work in collaboration to support all other commercial teams including PR, Collaborations, B2B, Events, Marketing and Brand with their contracting requirements.
You will thrive in an environment that asks you to deliver at pace, juggle competing priorities and support bespoke initiatives to promote customer engagement and brand- building` opportunities. Your expertise and passion for finding dynamic solutions to support the ambitious business plans for innovation and growth, will play a key role in delivering on the brand strategy.
This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your career in a company that values innovation, creativity and pragmatism in its legal community.
Reports to: Head of Brand Legal
Location: Poole or London. Minimum of 3 days a week in your office location, not set days.
Salary: From £75,000 depending on experience
Please note: We may close this vacancy early if we receive an overwhelming response or our business requirements change.
Provide first-class legal service as a strategic legal business partner to our Digital and Tech teams, advising on user experience, consumer law compliance in relation to digital services, subscriptions and promotions.
Independently review, negotiate and draft various types of contracts: creative services and PR agency agreements, influencer and talent agreements, sponsorship contracts, IP licence agreements, B2B contracts and collaboration and partnership deals.
Work collaboratively with internal commercial teams to advise on campaign compliance, marketing copy, prize promotions, direct marketing, consumer law and CAP Codes compliance
Demonstrate a strong commercial acumen across various advertising matters with strong negotiation skills and comfort in taking commercial decisions alongside senior sales, marketing and creative leads.
Deliver regular training sessions to the business with a genuine interest in developing legal knowledge and expertise within the business.
Collaborate effectively with global, regional, and cross-functional teams including Finance, Digital, IP, Data Privacy, Ethical Compliance and Corporate Security.
Support the supervision and development of future trainee solicitors within the team.
Risk Management & Governance
Identify legal and commercial risks and propose practical mitigation strategies.
Apply escalation frameworks to determine when matters should be referred to the Commercial Lead or other senior lawyers.
Support the Commercial Lead with the implementation and maintenance of contract playbooks, fallback positions and approval matrices.
Contribute to creation, maintenance and ongoing alignment to internal governance and delegation frameworks.
English law-qualified lawyer with a minimum of 4 years PQE, gained in private practice or an in-house legal environment.
Essential in-house experience supporting a global brand on multi-jurisdictional matters (experience in the beauty or FMCG sector is highly desirable).
Proven experience advising on tech and digital projects, including software licensing, data privacy, and e-commerce.
Strong technical grounding in commercial, marketing, and contract law.
Demonstrated expertise drafting and negotiating commercial contracts for UK and international markets (e.g., NDAs, influencer, sponsorship, event, and agency agreements).
Meticulous attention to detail.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to collaborate with stakeholders at all seniority levels.
A pragmatic, solutions-focused mindset with the composure and time-management skills to manage tight deadlines effectively.
Highly organised, responsive, and comfortable working in an agile, dynamic environment remaining flexible to respond to changing business priorities.
Self-motivated and able to work autonomously while knowing when to escalate key issues.
Ambitious and collaborative approach, dedicated to delivering exceptional legal support in a friendly, approachable manner.