About the Role
Lead on global commercial partnership agreements and related legal issues, reviewing and negotiating various contracts, managing standard terms, and providing strategic legal support to commercial stakeholders. This role aims to accelerate market activity by offering timely legal support, improving execution quality, reducing contract risk, and ensuring consistency between local decisions and central legal standards.
Responsibilities
- Lead on commercial partnership agreements and related legal issues globally.
- Review and negotiate partner and corporate customer-facing contracts, amendments, and non-standard legal requests.
- Escalate material risk positions when required.
- Review and negotiate supplier and other third-party contracts, including talent and sponsorship agreements, joint promotions, SaaS agreements, and strategic partnerships.
- Manage standard terms and conditions and partner policies.
- Provide support on the full lifecycle of the partner experience including onboarding, activation, pricing, and retail media.
- Build strong relationships with commercial stakeholders.
- Provide strategic legal support for launches, pilots, and contract implementation issues.
- Manage disputes and contract interpretation matters.
- Coordinate external counsel support where needed.
- Create and scale self-service tooling for all contracting matters, including templates, playbooks, and tech/AI solutions.
- Coordinate with various stakeholders where issues have wider regulatory, reputational, or cross-market implications.
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer with experience in commercial contracts and day-to-day business legal support.
- Ability to negotiate practical contract positions and explain legal risk clearly to commercial stakeholders.
- Experience handling recurring legal matters in a sales, partnerships, or customer-facing environment.
- Drafting, organization, and issue-spotting skills.
- Ability to work within templates, guardrails, and escalation routes while maintaining delivery speed.
- Strong English language skills are required.
- Another language (e.g., Dutch, German, Italian, Polish, or Spanish) is beneficial.
Skills
- Commercial contracts
- Legal support
- Contract negotiation
- Risk assessment
- Supplier contracts
- Talent agreements
- Sponsorship agreements
- Joint promotions
- SaaS agreements
- Strategic partnerships
- Contract lifecycle management
- Dispute management
- Contract interpretation
- Legal tooling
- Template creation
- Playbook development
- Tech/AI solutions
- Cross-functional coordination
- English language proficiency
- Additional language proficiency (Dutch, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish)
Experience Level
- Experience in a multi-country consumer, marketplace, or digital business is preferred.
About the Company
- Just Eat Takeaway.com (JET) is a leading global online convenience marketplace.
- Our tech ecosystem connects millions of active customers with hundreds of thousands of connected partners in countries across the globe.
- Our Vision is to empower everyday convenience around the world, whether it’s through customer service, coding, or couriers.
- Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.
- The JET culture is about movement, growth, and celebrating every aspect of our JETers.
- We stay one step ahead of the competition thanks to our employees.
Equal Opportunity
- No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com.
- We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.
