Senior Legal Counsel

Job Purpose

The RWS Legal and Professional Advisory team is highly collaborative, collegial, and international and dedicated to providing the business with

proactive, pragmatic, and timely legal advice.

We are seeking a creative, agile, and diligent attorney with strong communication and negotiation skills to join the RWS Legal Department as Senior Legal Counsel. 

 

Reporting to the Head of Legal, you will be responsible for drafting, negotiating, and reviewing a broad range of international corporate and commercial contracts as well as providing corporate, transactional, regulatory and other legal support as needed, with a particular focus on the US.

As an integral member of the team, you will partner and work closely with various colleagues throughout the organization to lead and support the contracting process within established timelines and ensuring compliance with the Company's domestic and global programs and policies.

This team provides leadership and counsel across RWS to enable consistent, effective practices which minimize risk.

The work is challenging, fast-paced and rewarding, both professionally and personally. This is an exciting and engaging position in a mission-driven organization, offering a flexible, hybrid work arrangement. 

 

 

About RWS Legal

 

In joining RWS’s Legal and Professional Advisory team you will play an instrumental part in supporting the world’s leading provider of technology-enabled language, content, and intellectual property services. RWS has growing revenues of over £750m through a combination of value accretive acquisitions and organic growth and a current market capitalization of £1.3bn. The Legal and Professional Advisory team, led by our General Counsel and Company Secretary, Jane Hyde, includes the Legal, Company Secretarial, Data Privacy and ESG functions which provide critical business partnering to our Divisional operations and help drive the Group’s risk management, regulatory, governance and sustainability agendas. You will be part of a diverse and international team working across our global operations which span a footprint of over 100 legal entities in 43 different countries worldwide.   It’s a very exciting time to join RWS for an individual who enjoys driving change and making an impact in a dynamic environment. As part of the overall RWS business strategy we are making a significant investment in upgrading our systems and processes to deliver enhanced reporting and control and strengthening our risk and governance frameworks.

 

Job Overview

Key Responsibilities

 

• Draft, review and negotiate commercial agreements (e.g. technology, services, DPAs, partners, and corporate agreements, etc.) worldwide with a wide range of clients, vendors and partners. Emphasis is on providing timely, high-quality analysis and pragmatic solutions and legal advice on all contract negotiations.
• Collaborate with, and provide timely and strategic legal advice to management, strategic business units and cross functional groups, including Sales, Operations, Marketing, IT/Procurement, Data Privacy, Security, Finance, HR, and supply chain.
• Shepherd deals through the sales cycle and internal approval processes while partnering with the appropriate cross-functional teams.
• Provide legal guidance and risk assessment on behalf of RWS and advise on legal risks and implications of business decisions and initiatives.
• Work with sales and operations teams in iterating on and improving our core commercial documents and terms and developing playbooks and processes for improving efficiency, and growth.
• Ensure all contracts and legal documents comply with legal requirements and company policies.
• Ensure compliance with corporate governance standards and practices. Highlighting and escalating concerns and potential solutions to Head of Legal.
• Develop, implement and monitor policies and procedures and other documentation to minimize risk and enhance ethical business practice.
• Advising on US the application of US federal and state laws as required, which may extend to corporate, regulatory, and employment matters and disputes.
• Monitor laws, regulations, and guidance to ensure ongoing compliance, track emerging risks and assist with policy creation and other program materials.
• Contribute to the improvement of standard forms of agreements, alternate language playbooks, and internal resource documents.
• Effectively prioritize and perform other legal duties as assigned,
• Collaborate with external counsel, as required.

 

Skills & Experience

 

• Juris Doctorate from a nationally accredited law school.
• At least 5