Senior Legal Counsel, Omnichannel

Overview

In this role you act as the strategic legal partner enabling Primark’s omnichannel growth. You will influence major business decisions across ecommerce, digital, and operations while leading complex commercial negotiations. You’ll collaborate across technology, supply chain, marketing, finance and people teams to deliver practical legal solutions, strengthen the legal function, and monitor regulatory risks to support expansion. This is a growth-focused, cross-functional role in a global, people-centric culture.

Pay / Benefits

• Healthcare
• pension
• potential bonus
• 27 days of leave plus bank holidays
• option to buy 5 additional leave days
• Tax Saver Tickets

Responsibilities

• Provide commercially focused legal advice to support omnichannel growth across ecommerce, customer engagement, digital, logistics and technology initiatives
• Draft, negotiate, and close complex commercial agreements with stakeholders and external counsel
• Build trusted cross-functional relationships with Technology, Digital, Supply Chain, Marketing, Finance and People & Culture to enable business objectives
• Influence strategic and operational decisions with risk-based legal guidance to stakeholders at all levels
• Improve legal operations and capability through process optimization and knowledge sharing
• Monitor regulatory developments and manage legal risks in collaboration with compliance and external advisers to support expansion ambitions

Key requirements

• 7-10+ years post-qualification experience in a leading law firm and/or in-house legal environment
• Qualified lawyer
• Experience advising senior stakeholders on legal risk and business strategy
• Extensive experience drafting, negotiating, and advising on complex commercial agreements
• Proven track record leading large-scale projects balancing legal, commercial and operational priorities
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence decision-making across levels of an organization
• Pragmatic, solutions-focused approach to navigating complex legal issues

• stakeholder management
• influencing & relationship building
• commercial judgement
• commercial contract drafting and negotiation
• risk assessment and management
• regulatory compliance monitoring

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