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About the Role
As a Senior Legal Counsel, you will serve as a trusted legal adviser and strategic business partner to stakeholders involved in bringing Sky's products to market. You will advise on complex commercial arrangements, product development, strategic supplier partnerships, and regulatory compliance for customer-facing initiatives across multiple markets.
Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted legal adviser and strategic business partner to senior stakeholders across Product, Technology, Responsible Supply Chain, Product Compliance and Sky Protect, helping deliver Sky’s strategic priorities.
- Lead the negotiation, drafting and execution of complex commercial, technology, supply chain and strategic supplier agreements with a high degree of autonomy, including arrangements relating to hardware, software, manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, insurance and strategic partnerships.
- Provide clear, pragmatic and commercially focused legal advice that enables innovation while appropriately managing legal, regulatory and commercial risk across the full product lifecycle, from design and development through manufacture, launch, delivery, installation and in-life support.
- Support strategic customer product and supply chain initiatives including advising on transformation projects, strategic partnerships and associated legal and regulatory considerations.
- Advise on product compliance, product safety, environment and sustainability requirements, cyber security, intellectual property, software licensing and other legal obligations affecting customer products and supply chains, including emerging legal and regulatory developments.
- Lead multiple complex matters simultaneously, exercising sound judgement to prioritise effectively and manage competing stakeholder demands.
- Collaborate with colleagues across the wider Legal department and partner with legal teams across the Sky Group and Comcast to deliver consistent, high-quality legal support.
- Instruct and manage work undertaken by Sky Legal's managed legal services provider and external counsel to deliver efficient, cost-effective legal support.
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer in a UK jurisdiction, or an equivalent common law jurisdiction.
- Proven commercial experience gained in a leading private practice and/or in-house legal team.
- Significant experience negotiating and advising on complex commercial contracts.
- Experience partnering directly with senior business stakeholders and influencing commercial outcomes.
- Experience independently leading significant negotiations and projects from instruction through to completion.
- Strong legal advisory skills with the ability to analyse complex issues and give clear practical recommendations to senior stakeholders.
- Strong commercial judgement and experience balancing legal and regulatory risk with business objectives in a fast-moving environment.
- A collaborative and proactive approach.
- Appropriate right to work in the UK.
- Sky does not offer sponsorship for this position.
Skills
- Commercial contracting
- Strategic legal advice
- Regulatory compliance
- Negotiation
- Drafting
- Commercial agreements
- Technology agreements
- Supply chain agreements
- Strategic supplier agreements
- Hardware agreements
- Software agreements
- Manufacturing agreements
- Warehousing agreements
- Logistics agreements
- Insurance agreements
- Partnership agreements
- Product compliance
- Product safety
- Environment and sustainability
- Cyber security
- Intellectual property
- Software licensing
- Risk management
- Project management
- Legal advisory
- Commercial judgement
- Collaboration
- Proactive approach
- Experience negotiating agreements and advising on products within a regulated environment, in particular insurance products.
- Experience working across multiple jurisdictions.
- In-house experience within a large, matrixed organisation.
- Experience managing external legal providers.
Location
- Osterley, UK
Work Type
- Hybrid (3 days in office per week)
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Qualified lawyer in a UK jurisdiction, or an equivalent common law jurisdiction.
Benefits
- Free Sky TV, including Sky Sports and Sky Cinema
- Pension package with up to 9% employer contribution
- Private healthcare with mental health support
- Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance
- Discounts on Sky products, including Sky Mobile, Sky Broadband, Sky Glass and Sky Protect
- Sharesave and Tech schemes
- A range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences
About the Company
- Sky is a leading media and entertainment company connecting millions with entertainment, sports, news and arts through innovative products and services.
- Working with Sky means bringing the joy of a better experience to more people, every day.
- Sky aims to do better and deliver better for its customers, colleagues and society.
Equal Opportunity
- Sky is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at its company.
- Sky is a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and welcomes and encourages applications from all candidates.
- Sky will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all and will make reasonable adjustments to support candidates where appropriate.
- Please flag any adjustments needed as early as possible.
- If your application is successful, you’ll be asked to complete a criminal record check. Depending on the role and the nature of any convictions, the offer might be withdrawn.
- Please note: Sky reserves the right to close this advertisement at any time once a sufficient number of applications have been received.