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Legal Director BBU

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Job Introduction

The Legal Team at William Grant & Sons is growing! In response to the continued growth of the business, the Legal Team are introducing some new roles. The Legal Director BBU role is a key new role to the Legal Senior Leadership Team and the Branded Business Unit (BBU) Board.

Main Responsibility

  • Direct, manage and lead the provision of legal services to the BBU ensuring that WG&S maximises opportunity and minimises legal risk in its operations and business relationships. Apply up to date risk management techniques and offer proactive legal advice on possible legal issues. Draft and advise on the contracts that are required for the BBU to operate its business successfully and to protect its interests and exploit opportunities. Lead on any litigation affecting the BBU.

 

  • Recruit, manage, develop and motivate the BBU legal team to deliver legal services that are best in class and can cover the breadth of issues that arise within the BBU.

 

  • Partner with the Chief Commercial Officer ensuring that they are kept abreast of any issues within the BBU and be their first port of call for legal input and to deal with any critical issues arising from the BBU board . Assess and deliver relevant legal training to the BBU board to ensure that they are aware of the legal environment in which they operate.

 

  • Lead the delivery of legal advice to the central BBU team managing Route to Consumer, Net Revenue Management and Sales Capability.

 

  • Be a member of the BBU board and fulfil the responsibilities of a director in accordance with all relevant legislation and codes of practice that are applicable.

 

  • Lead the provision of legal services to the QSI and GTR business units, overseeing the BBU lawyers providing support on a day to day basis.

 

  • Lead the legal compliance agenda in the BBU ensuring that all are aware of their obligations and that relevant training is carried out. Monitor compliance and ensure that any gaps or failures in compliance are addressed without delay to ensure that WG&S is protected.

 

  • Control and manage the legal budget for the BBU to ensure that WG&S receives value for money in the purchasing of such services ensuring that the right firm or lawyer is used for any particular matter balancing cost with expertise and value adding services.

 

  • Assist the Group General Counsel in leading and developing the legal function in the right way ensuring that training is provided to ensure that the function is up to date with substantive legal issues and in terms of overall performance in an in house environment.

 

  • Lead the development of template agreements to be used by the commercial business units in their third party relationships and the development of a database of documents ensuring the proper maintenance of records for the commercial operations.

Our Ideal Candidate

Law degree and right to practice in the United Kingdom or a Common Law jurisdiction.

Post-qualification experience (15+ yrs PQE as a guide, the successful candidate will have a wide range of skills and experience overall).

Solid experience of developing and leading an established team (including experience of operating at board level within previous roles and leading on the legal agenda).

Demonstrating a solid commercial understanding and the context in which legal advice is given and capable of managing senior stakeholders and holding them to account on the legal agenda.

Legal experience to include significant experience dealing with international matters, including managing distributor arrangements, managing disputes, establishing businesses, M&A experience, dealing with antitrust matters and other compliance issues; experience of advising on e-commerce related issues, marketing and advertising law (including overseas regulatory restrictions) dark market marketing techniques and social media marketing.

Have exceptional technical skills including exemplary contract drafting, review and negotiation skills gained in multiple complex transactions.

Be capable of working under pressure and juggling multiple competing priorities.

Have the ability to communicate with and collaborate with Executive board on high-value or important corporate initiatives.

Have a practical, commercially oriented, and customer-centric approach to providing legal solutions and advice.

Have exceptional written and verbal English communication and presentation skills, with excellent stakeholder engagement and management skills.

Excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to work cross-functionally and interact proactively and confidently with multiple stakeholders.

Have excellent planning and organisational skills and the ability to prioritise, manage time effectively and work to deadlines that may be tight at times.

Experience in alcohol/beverage sector or advising other brand-led businesses would be advantageous.

What we can offer you

  • We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
  • Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
  • Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
  • Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
  • Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues. 
  • Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
  • Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
  • Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
  • Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
  • Learning resources to help you be your best self.

About William Grant & Sons

A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS

William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.

We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.

At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.

OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY

Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.

INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS

Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive. If you have any questions or need some support with your application we’d love to hear from you. So please get in touch with our HR team at recruitment.enquiries@wgrant.com.

We want to make sure that all applicants are treated equally. To support this we will anonymise all applications during the screening stage. Details such as name, dates and educational establishments will only be visible to the recruitment team and hiring leader once an applicant is invited to interview, these details are hidden during the screening stage. To be able to anonymise applications they all need to be in the same format. You can upload a CV but we would also ask you to complete an application form – your CV will not be visible during screening. We hope you agree that this is good use of your time to help ensure a fair recruitment process.

William Grant & Sons

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