Corporate Counsel

Corporate Counsel

Are you excited to support corporate commercial legal departments and help them succeed in a sales environment?

Can you work independently, handle the pressure of a sales environment and are fluent in Spanish and English?

Location: London

About our Team

We work within the Legal Department, which is composed of lawyers, paralegals, and specialists committed to the professional growth and career development of our team.

About the Role

Our Commercial Sales Legal Counsel will be a business partner to our Elsevier Academic and Government and Corporate Sales teams in North America with some support to our Latin American region. You will provide legal support and guidance to our Sales teams, and work closely with our contract managers and sales support teams and will be part of the Elsevier Legal team reporting into the General Counsel EMEA APAC LA.

Legal support has a strong focus on commercial transactions interacting directly with our customers. You will also help to deliver training, projects and initiatives to our organization, acting as a trusted business partner.

Responsibilities

• Providing support on transactional matters including legal advice, contract negotiation and drafting
• Provide best in practice professional legal services aligned with the strategic drivers of the business ensuring significant impact.
• Builds relationships with the aim to become the trusted business partner including stakeholder management
• Act as a role model in the team, actively endorsing team operating principles including on teamwork and collaboration, change, working in an international environment, and open and meaningful communication.

Requirements

• Have substantial in-house legal experience (7 to 10 years+) and preferably also experience working for a law firm.
• Have experience working in an international environment.
• Have extensive experience working in the United States and/or with North American customers.
• Have excellent academic qualifications and substantial relevant experience in providing legal advice and support to businesses.
• Have a well-developed technical knowledge about relevant areas of law. Could apply that technical expertise to practical matters. Knowledge of IP, licensing including Software as a Service contracts, if possible
• Be accustomed to communicating complex legal and commercial issues clearly and concisely in a way that is readily understandable and can be acted upon by the business.
• Be a collaborative team player who demonstrates leadership qualities appropriate for a member of the Legal Department.
• Fluent in Spanish and English and if possible, Portuguese in both writing and speaking.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. With an average length of service of 9 years, we are confident that we offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, family leave, and tuition reimbursement, we will help you meet both your immediate responsibilities and long-term goals.

• Working remotely from home and at our office in a hybrid working style
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times you work in the day

Working with us

We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to help you succeed. Here, you will find an inclusive, agile, collaborative, innovative, and fun environment, where everyone has a part to play. Regardless of the team you join, we promote a diverse environment with co-workers who are passionate about what they do and how they do it.

Working for you

At Elsevier, we know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
• Wellbeing programs
• Life assurance
• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
• Long service awards
• Save As You Earn share option scheme
• Travel Season ticket loan
• Maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
• Access to extensive learning and development resources
• Access to employee discounts via Perks at Work

About Us

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.