12m FTC Senior Legal Counsel – , Marketing Media & Intellectual Property

Job title:

12m FTC Senior Legal Counsel – , Marketing Media & Intellectual Property

Company

Three

Job description

Company Description

The Marketing Media and IP Legal team, headed by Scott Fairbairn, provides end-to-end legal support to Three’s Commercial and Marketing teams in a fast-paced and fun environment.

Three is looking to recruit an experience Senior Legal Counsel to join our Marketing, Media and Brand legal team on a 12 month FTC, starting in March 2024. Due to the variety of the work that the team undertakes there is a broad opportunity to experience different types of work, and over time the successful candidate will develop the ability to work on a wide variety of matters, while also focussing in on particular strategic projects. The working environment is fast paced, agile and fun, providing great autonomy, variety and personal development within a challenger brand in the world of mobile technology- bringing new products and customer propositions to life.

If you’re up for a challenge, thrive on no two days ever being the same, have excellent technical legal and drafting skills and can give practical, commercial legal advice to market-facing business teams, this role is for you.

Areas will include:

Trading – Advising on retail, online and distance sales, promotions, competitions, special offers, advising on speed claims and unlimited claims, and on new plans and tariffs. Defending Three from ASA complaints and taking action against competitors. Advising on regulatory requirements relating to mobile and fixed line telecoms services.

Marketing, Brand and Partnerships – Advising on campaigns across media channels and on key marketing propositions and advertising strategies. Advising on brand management, protecting key intellectual property assets and managing trade mark portfolio. Working with other brands (such as Chelsea, GoggleBox, Live Nation, Paramount +) on creative collaborations.

Media Buying and Targeted Advertising – Negotiating contracts with media buying agencies, advising on bringing elements of programmatic media buying in-house, bringing a new targeted advertising product to market, advising on cookie policies and data protection.

Contractual support – Business partnering on a wide range of contracts including licensing, sponsorship, co-branding, app distribution, device sourcing, creative and media agencies, data monetisation and transfer, carrier billing contracts and more.

Devices and Accessories – Working with procurement, trading and Group to negotiate purchase, after sales and marketing terms with a range of devices and accessories providers.

Digital Products – Supporting Three’s offers and rewards App Three + including onboarding a range of compelling offers to our customers, providing advice on data protection consents, data flows and customer journeys, management of third party offers. Advising on shopping, payments, carrier billing, content strategy and implementation.

Big Data – Providing data protection advice on monetisation of big data, including advising on legal risks associated with processing personal data and associated customer journeys data processing terms, working closely with our DPO team. Negotiating terms for analytics, hosting and monetisation brokerage.

Marketing Strategy – Collaborating on opportunities and risks associated with marketing 5G technology and the potential impact of Net Neutrality Regulations, lobbying Ofcom on customer benefits.

Job Description

Take responsibility for delivering key legal projects and ensuring that risk and reward are appropriately balanced;

• Manage contractual negotiations, develop templates and use external counsel where appropriate;
• Provide high quality legal advice across a wide range of technology and commercial matters;
• Successfully manage strategic legal relationships;
• Identify new ways to do things better;
• Help to manage the ongoing success of the team and to promote its profile both internally and externally.

Qualifications

• Contract drafting and negotiation skills – ability to negotiate a wide variety of marketing and media agency, sponsorship, devices, accessories and digital products and service delivery contracts, often with significant complex personal data, customer redress or intellectual property elements. You will be comfortable with a high level of autonomy to negotiate and agree terms and collaborate to agree and implement commercial strategies, as well as managing a very varied workload.
• Data and Privacy – You will have a solid understanding of GDPR and PECR and real world experience of assessing risk and coming up with solutions that marry compliance, customer experience and business requirements. You will be confident taking on evolving areas such as privacy in the context of programmatic media buying and in apps and sensitive areas such as use of location and browsing data
• Marketing, Branding and Intellectual Property – You will understand the dynamics of marketing products and producing head turning advertising campaigns in a regulated and highly competitive market include the ASA codes, the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations and have the creative flexibility to advise on social and traditional media. You will also have a strong grasp of Intellectual property rights, particularly copyright and trade marks, meaning you can advise on freedom to operate, potential infringements and ensure we have the right IP protections in place. You will also be able to support a host of co-marketing collaborations partnerships and sponsorship agreements.

Essential Requirements:

• Lawyer qualified in the UK or similar jurisdiction
• 8 years+ PQE
• Varied legal experience in technology and commercial contracting
• Ability to influence and persuade key stakeholders, shareholder representatives and senior counterparties
• Ability to manage workload and priorities as part of a team; to summarise and communicate effectively at all levels;
• In-house experience preferred but not essential (secondment or previous in-house legal role).

Preferred (additional) requirements:

• Trained and ongoing experience from a top tier law firm in the UK or similar jurisdiction
• Experience in large scale corporate or commercial arrangements
• Knowledge of products and services in the mobile telecommunications market, e-commerce, offers and rewards, data monetisation and mobile payments advantageous.

What you’ll receive in return…
Competitive annual salary, car cash allowance, a performance based annual bonus & an additional ‘flexible allowance’ to spend on additional benefits, topping up your pension, or to be added to your salary.
Hybrid working between your home (2-3 days a week) and our brand new Reading HQ office at Green Park (2-3 days a week)
28 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays + 3 personal days annually, which increases with length of service
Private Medical Insurance, Life Assurance and Income Protection
Free mobile phone package & unlimited sim-card
Free on-site car parking
Electric bays are available on site
…. Plus lots more including wellbeing and learning & development benefits!

Additional Information

Our people make us who we are. We’re a diverse and inclusive bunch, and it’s important you can feel you belong here. We value everybody for who they are and what they bring to the table, supporting one another as we continue to deliver for our customers.

At Three we have a hybrid working arrangement in place as standard for office based employees, where employees work from a mix of office based location and working from their home in the UK to carry on their role.

Excluding retail, core hours at Three are between 10:00 and 16:00, with operating hours between 08:00 & 18:30. This allows employees to have a start time between 08:00 and 10:00 and finish time between 16:00 and 18:30.

Expected salary

Location

United Kingdom

Job date

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 08:04:37 GMT

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