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About the Role

This 12-month fixed-term contract role involves providing commercial legal advice and support to various ITV Group teams, focusing on drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, particularly third-party supplier agreements, and supporting separation activities for the divestment of ITV’s Media & Entertainment business.

Responsibilities

• Providing legal support on material third party supplier arrangements with a key focus on separation activities in advance of the divestment of ITV’s Media & Entertainment business.
• Drafting and negotiating a broad range of commercial contracts (predominantly third party supplier contracts).
• Identifying and mitigating legal and commercial risks within contracts (including liability, indemnities, warranties and termination provisions).
• Advising on contract interpretation and legal risk analysis.
• Coordinating contract approval and execution processes.
• Building trusted relationships with senior internal stakeholders.
• Providing commercial legal advice and support to Group-level matters and strategic projects as required.

Requirements

• Qualified lawyer (UK or equivalent qualification) with PQE obtained in private practice or in-house.
• Extensive commercial law expertise and experience gained in a top tier private practice firm or in-house legal team.
• Strong drafting and negotiation experience of commercial contracts (particularly third party supplier agreements).
• Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders and work independently in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Commercially astute and solution-oriented, with a pragmatic approach to risk.
• Excellent communicator, able to build strong internal and external relationships.
• Confident working across cross-functional teams including Procurement, Data Protection, Finance, Tax and Cyber Security.
• Strong understanding of data protection and IP principles.
• Able to balance legal rigour with commercial realities and business priorities.
• Highly organised, capable of managing multiple contracts and competing priorities.
• A collaborative team player who can command credibility across senior stakeholders.
• Adaptable and resilient, comfortable working occasional longer hours when business demands require.

Skills

• Commercial law expertise
• Commercial contract drafting
• Commercial contract negotiation
• Stakeholder management
• Independent work
• Risk assessment
• Communication
• Relationship building
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Data protection principles
• IP principles
• Organisation
• Adaptability
• Resilience

Location

• ITV London, White City
• Hybrid

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Fixed-term contract

Experience Level

• PQE (Post-Qualification Experience)

Education Level

• Qualified lawyer (UK or equivalent qualification)

Benefits

• Flexible working with a range of options to suit everyone
• Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more
• Annual bonus opportunity
• Competitive pension contribution
• Save as you earn - with an opportunity to buy ITV shares
• Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life

About the Company

• Work matters to millions.
• Shaping culture is in the DNA of ITV.
• ITV is found in every home in the UK, with productions famous all over the world and at the forefront of the digital streaming revolution.
• Offers a fun working environment with opportunities to learn, grow and make a real difference.
• Small enough that your impact’s felt in the business, but big enough that your impact reaches millions of people.
• Develop your skills, change TV and the course of your career.

Equal Opportunity

• ITV is for everyone.
• ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from disabled people.
• As a Disability Confident Leader, if you meet the minimum criteria for a role and you have declared that you are disabled, we’ll guarantee to take you to the next stage.
• Happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during our application and selection process as part of our reasonable adjustments.
• There may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.