Commercial Legal Counsel

at  McDonalds UK Corporate

COMPANY VISION AND CULTURE…

Our Global vision is to build a better McDonald’s and in the UK and Ireland we are working hard to be the UK & Irelands best-loved restaurant company.
McDonald’s is defined by its culture. Our culture shapes and informs everything we think and everything we do. Our culture influences the way we interact with each other, and how we interact with customers, franchisees and suppliers. Our culture motivates and inspires us to attract and retain great talent, creating positive, energising, exceptional working environment for us all.
Our values drive our culture and shape our beliefs, our priorities and our actions. They influence the decisions we make, how we treat one another and how we show up as a brand to the world.
Serve: We put our customers and our people first
Inclusion: We open our doors to everyone
Integrity: We do the right thing
Community: We are good neighbours
Family: We get better together
Job Description

THE OPPORTUNITY

We are seeking a bright, enthusiastic and well-organised lawyer to join our high performing, dynamic and friendly Legal team. The role would involve handling the full range of commercial legal matters in the UK and Ireland, supporting a number of departments across the business, including ourDigital, Technology/IT, Marketing, HR and Supply Chain teams.

WHAT WILL MY ACCOUNTABILITIES BE?

• Preparing, reviewing and negotiating a broad range of commercial agreements including technology contracts, goods and services agreements and data processing agreements.
• Working collaboratively with the IT and Digital teams to provide legal advice on a variety of matters, including preparing and negotiating SAAS agreements and MSAs with IT/Digital suppliers.
• Undertaking data protection related work, including advising on GDPR compliance within new projects and reviewing data protection provisions in contracts.
• Providing day to day advice to colleagues across the business on a wide variety of other commercial issues including in respect to supply chain matters, marketing & IP matters, employment matters, and finance, tax and competition law matters. All of this will involve working collaboratively with legal and business colleagues to manage commercial transactions, identifying risks and providing solutions-driven, commercial advice.
• Proactively identifying legal trends and regulatory changes to enhance company policies and procedures, develop communication and training programmes and ensure awareness and compliance across the business.
• Participating and contributing to cross-functional working teams on projects involving strategic business initiatives and risk management strategies.
• Working with and managing external lawyers supporting the team on varying projects/matters.

WHAT ATTRIBUTES DO I NEED TO HAVE?

• We have an amazing, supportive and collegiate team and we are looking for our next star lawyer!
• If you are a positive, pragmatic, and self-motivated lawyer, we want to hear from you. We pride ourselves on being on a team of enthusiastic and curious people who are always keen to learn and gain experience in new legal and business areas.
• As a business of our size and scale, we move at pace, so you need to be a fast learner who is able to roll your sleeves up and get stuck into a variety of different areas and handle competing priorities. The role would suit someone who enjoys working in a high performing team and directly with a wide range of business stakeholders to help find practical and sometimes creative solutions to challenges.
• You will need to be an effective communicator (including having strong drafting skills and the ability to clearly and concisely explain concepts to non-legal stakeholders); a strong relationship builder; efficient; and have the ability to see the big picture by providing commercially sound advice.
• People development and supporting team members to grow is part of working here so you need to be a strong team player who likes sharing knowledge.
  Additional Information

Please refer the Job description for details