Legal Counsel – Digital & Technology | S3 | Legal | Multiple Locations

Legal Counsel – Digital & Technology | S3 | Legal | Multiple Locations

Country: United Kingdom

IT STARTS HERE

Santander (www.santander.com) is evolving from a global, high-impact brand into a technology-driven organisation, and our people are at the heart of this journey. Together, we are driving a customer-centric transformation that values bold thinking, innovation, and the courage to challenge what’s possible.

This is more than a strategic shift. It’s a chance for driven professionals to grow, learn, and make a real difference.

Our mission is to contribute to help more people and businesses prosper. We embrace a strong risk culture and all our professionals at all levels are expected to take a proactive and responsible approach toward risk management.

THE DIFFERENCE YOU MAKE

Santander UK is looking for a Legal Counsel based out of London or Milton Keynes.

The Legal Counsel role is in the Operations & Infrastructure Legal team, which sits within the wider Digital, Technology & Operations Legal team, which overall advises on Digital, Technology, Operations, Infrastructure, Payments, Data Privacy and Intellectual Property.

In this high-profile role, you’ll be providing legal advice relating to a wide range of agreements that support Santander UK’s operations and infrastructure, including drafting, negotiating and advising on contracts for outsourced and  material services (many of which will involve service providers subcontracting to cloud providers), consultancy services (including IT), marketing and sponsorship, intra-group arrangements, insurance distribution (from a commercial contracts perspective), cash management services, employee platforms and rewards, and strategic projects. You will also advise on the regulatory regimes that apply to the provision of services to Santander as a ring-fenced bank in the UK.

If you’ve performed a similar role previously, this could be a great opportunity to develop your career.

We’re shaping the way we work through innovation, cutting-edge technology, collaboration and the freedom to explore new ideas. To succeed in this role, you will be responsible for:

• working closely with stakeholders across the Bank to deliver expert, accurate, concise, commercial and cost-effective legal advice that is readily understandable to non-lawyers, and which facilitates business decisions;

• demonstrating creativity and innovation in reaching practical solutions on complex subject matters and be comfortable challenging when appropriate to ensure compliance with all relevant legal and regulatory requirements;

• sharing technical skills, experience and best practice with colleagues and the wider business and support other departments through training and the development and updating of legal templates and checklists;

• keeping abreast of external developments in the law and financial services industry to enable Santander UK to react appropriately and in line with best practice, continuously seeking to improve processes, practices and policies; and

• answering legal queries from internal customers as well as managing external suppliers/ stakeholders to successfully deliver advice, projects and other outcomes on a timely basis

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

Our people are our greatest strength. Every individual contributes unique perspectives that make us stronger as a team and as an organisation. We’re enabling teams to go beyond by valuing who they are and empowering what they bring.

The following requirements represent the knowledge, skills, and abilities essential for success in this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

These are the essential requirements you need to be successful in this role:

• experience providing legal advice that is readily understandable to non-lawyers (Required);

• excellent knowledge and experience of outsourcing, working on complex commercial contracts, and commercial contract law (Required);

• excellent knowledge of the regulatory regime impacting outsourcing and material arrangements in financial services, for example the Prudential Regulation Authority’s (PRA) Supervisory Statement on Outsourcing and Third Party Risk Management (SS2/21) (Required); and

• good understanding and working knowledge of data protection issues applicable to contracts that involve sharing / processing of personal data is required, but you are not required to be a subject matter expert in data protection; and

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