Senior Legal Counsel

Overview

In this Senior Legal Counsel role, you will be a key contact across multiple business areas, providing commercial and legal guidance on a global scale. You’ll manage cross-border matters, coach junior lawyers, and align legal work with ASOS’s fast-paced, collaborative environment. You’ll shape risk mitigation and contracting strategies across commercial, marketing, technology, and consumer regulation disciplines. This is an impact-focused position for a hands-on, commercially-minded lawyer who thrives in a dynamic retail tech context.

Pay / Benefits

• Employee discount
• Employee sample sales
• 25 days paid annual leave + extra celebration day
• Performance-related bonus
• Private medical care scheme
• Personalised learning opportunities

Responsibilities

• Support wholesale, third-party brands, flex fulfilment, and sourcing commercial matters
• Oversee supplier lifecycle contracts, onboarding, negotiations, policies, compliance, and disputes
• Draft and negotiate global supply chain contracts and long-term logistics agreements
• Advise on marketing, IP, advertising compliance, and consumer regulation issues across multiple territories
• Advise on technology contracts (software, SaaS, hardware, outsourcing) and IT programs
• Support cross-border transactions and due diligence for partnerships or acquisitions
• Lead and develop junior team members; escalate legal risks to senior stakeholders
• Deliver training on relevant legal/commercial topics to the Legal Team and wider business
• Manage external counsel relationships and drive project momentum across stakeholders

Key requirements

• 6+ years’ PQE
• Qualified solicitor in England & Wales (or equivalent)
• Experience in fast-paced in-house or private practice with broad commercial exposure
• Comfort with cross-border matters and diverse business areas
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills
• Experience in contract templates and playbooks
• Proactive risk identification and escalation
• IT literacy and familiarity with business systems

• Excellent communicator and adaptable
• Relationship-builder across geographies and levels
• Energy, drive, and openness to change
• Contract negotiation and drafting (commercial/SLA)
• Regulatory compliance for consumer/advertising and digital markets
• IP rights and marketing/brand protection

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