Senior Legal Counsel

Overview

In this role you will act as a strategic legal partner to Primark’s omnichannel growth, advising across ecommerce, customer engagement, digital, logistics, and technology initiatives. You will lead complex commercial negotiations and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable business objectives. You’ll shape decision-making with risk-based guidance and help strengthen the legal function through process improvements. This is a dynamic opportunity to support growth in a people-first, globally expanding business and to help embed practical, commercially focused legal solutions.

Pay / Benefits

• Healthcare
• Pension
• Bonus potential
• 27 days leave plus bank holidays (+5 via buy)
• Tax Saver Tickets
• Fitness centre access? (fitness centre) or fitness facilities? (from text)

Responsibilities

• Provide commercially focused legal advice to support omnichannel growth across ecommerce, customer engagement, digital, logistics, and technology initiatives
• Draft, negotiate, and conclude complex commercial agreements in partnership with stakeholders and external counsel
• Build trusted relationships across Technology, Digital, Supply Chain, Marketing, Finance, and People & Culture to deliver practical legal solutions
• Influence strategic and operational decisions by delivering clear, risk-based legal guidance to stakeholders at all levels
• Support development of a high-performing legal function through process improvements and knowledge sharing
• Monitor emerging legal and regulatory developments and coordinate with compliance teams and external advisers to manage risk for expansion ambitions

Key requirements

• 7-10+ years’ post-qualification experience
• Qualified lawyer
• Experience in a leading law firm and/or dynamic in-house environment
• Experience advising senior stakeholders on legal risk and business strategy
• Proven track record drafting, negotiating, and advising on complex commercial agreements
• Experience coordinating large-scale projects and balancing legal, commercial, and operational priorities
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building abilities
• Pragmatic, solutions-focused approach to complex legal issues

• stakeholder management
• influencing decision-making
• cross-functional collaboration
• complex commercial agreements
• risk and regulatory compliance
• legal risk assessment

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