Groupm Legal Counsel - Milano, Italia - GroupM

GroupM

Azienda verificata

Milano, Italia

1 settimana fa

Inviato da:

Piero Bianchi

Reclutatore di talenti per beBee

Descrizione

GroupM is looking for a Legal Counsel to act as in-house legal counsel to GroupM and its agencies in Italy.

The role will report into the WPP Head of Legal in Italy with a dotted line to the GroupM Global General Counsel.

It sits within the GroupM legal community which is part of the WPP global legal team.

Responsibilities
As well as working closely with the commercial team, the key areas of responsibility for this role are:

Drafting, negotiating and advising on a range of media services, creative content, IT supplier agreements, technology licences, data processing agreements and non-disclosure agreements
Drafting and negotiating talent/influencer agreements
Advising on regulatory and policy compliance
Supporting the business on deal making in relation to complex and innovative projects
Keeping abreast of industry regulation, providing legal advice on governance and law change developments across social, media, ecommerce, data privacy and security issues, the transfer, use and storage of data and ePrivacy
Training and advising the business on risk, compliance, protection matters and relevant aspects of law
Working with other key stakeholders in the business to set strategy and policies for managing risk in new and emerging products and services
Helping to create a high profile of the legal resource throughout the business and encouraging active legal involvement in operational decision making
Responsibility for legal aspects of pitch responses and client renegotiations
Managing relationships with internal group counsel (WPP/GroupM) & external law firms and other professional advisors (notably auditors)
Development of user friendly contract templates that can be utilised across the business
Managing capture and storage of contracts
Coordinating the implementation of GroupM level legal initiatives
Implementing data privacy good practice and assisting the business with data privacy compliance issues
Managing & preventing client litigation
Advising on reputation management
IP and copyright

Experience and Qualifications

Essential criteria:_
5 years post qualification experience
Excellent communicator ability to explain legal issues clearly without jargon to commercial teams and clients
Ability to draft from precedent and from scratch
Ability to prioritize, solve problems and provide business solutions to legal issues in a fastpaced environment
Ability to manage fastpaced workload and escalate issues as appropriate
Commercial thinker ability to understand the tensions between commercial objectives and legal requirements, and resolve those tensions
Operational / commercial experience, must be able to addvalue, support / enable / facilitate change
Collaborative team player, relationship builder with a cando attitude, lots of energy and drive required with a wellstructured and precise way of working
Fluency in English
Desirable criteria:_
Media / advertising contract experience desirable but not essential

Location
Wpp Campus in Milan (plus the option for hybrid working)