Senior Legal Counsel 12 month FTC

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Legal Counsel to join our Legal team here at The Telegraph to support in a fast paced and exciting environment. You'll own and support across a broad range of corporate matters; commercial contracts as well as providing advice and counsel on a variety of business, legal and regulatory matters. This role will suit a qualified lawyer with solid corporate/ commercial law experience and ideally expertise within the media industry. This is a fantastic opportunity to support the business and work with an enthusiastic team, and you'll play an integral part in developing TMGs business goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Support on corporate and governance matters and handle a variety of commercial contracts and advice in a dynamic, successful media company

• Provide expert legal advice and strategic business partnering to the various TMG commercial and operational teams 
• Ability to grasp, understand, and effectively articulate and document complex legal and contractual principles.
• Develop strong business partner relationships with key leaders across the TMG business, including the executive team, to enable a meaningful contribution of legal services in an effective, efficient and compliant way
• Play a proactive role in the Group Legal Team, taking on responsibility for supporting change programmes and projects to drive improvements and operational excellence

Essential Skills

• Legally qualified with significant experience gained either in-house or at a top law firm
• Strong drafting skills and experience conducting transactions including diligence and disclosure processes with strong project management capabilities
• Ability to provide practical legal advice and support with a high degree of professionalism in a fast-paced environment and to establish a high degree of credibility, respect and trust at all levels.
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills. Proven ability to give specialist advice to commercial colleagues in order to drive decisions and resolve complex and strategically important issues
• In-house experience preferably. Experience working in areas such as tech, media and IP would be advantageous.
• Strong commercial awareness, flexibility, and willingness to provide considered, practical advice

Benefits

The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here by creating a suite of benefits that contribute to lifestyle choices and leisure activities. From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity/partner leave), to life assurance and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Training and development

With support from your manager and colleagues, you’ll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy. Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.

Our commitment to inclusion

At Telegraph Media Group, we foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives and backgrounds. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

We are proud to be a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader as part of the government’s Disability Confident Scheme. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition and would like support in applying for any of our roles or if you require any reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process with us, please make us aware.

To find out more about Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Telegraph Media Group, and for more information on our purpose, beliefs, and people values, please visit our website.