Legal Counsel, Woo
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Why you should join us…
We connect with millions of people every day, make content they can't get enough of and reflect and shape the world we live in… and we do all this through the power of creativity.
We will be a digitally led entertainment and media company that creates and brings brilliant content to audiences, wherever, whenever and however they choose.
Business Overview
Woo (by ITV) is a new generation digital media brand and marketplace redefining wellness. We make mental health and wellbeing discoverable, aspirational and culturally relevant.
Woo aims to engage with Gen Z (and Gen Y) with their passion points: music, fashion, activism and culture but through a wellness lens. We take un-conventional practices that are designed to improve the human experiences, align them with cultural icons and deliver it in a way that feels accessible, relatable and desirable. Think documentaries, reality series, and endorphins releasing videos, audio and beyond.
The content proposition is matched with a marketplace of curated consumer products designed to make you feel good, across categories such as apparel, supplements, homewares, tech and beauty.
Let’s turn generation anxious into generation zen.
Woo is a business born out of ITV’s Studio 55 Venture in-conjunction with Founders Intelligence. The business was founded and led by award winning CMO, Stephen Mai (ex Boiler Room, VICE, LADbible, MTV, ASOS) and is launched with a founding team from some of the world's most exciting youth media and ecommerce brands.
This role entails…
Woo (by ITV) is looking for a passionate corporate/commercial lawyer to join our team in-house and lead on the day to day running of the function. You will dual report to the Woo management team and to the ITV core legal team.
You will be the go-to person for all things legal but with clear support from and escalation lines into ITV legal. You will work closely with the business to provide legal & strategic support across a wide variety of matters (incl. marketing, e-commerce, wholesale, logistics, outsourcing, internet/new media, data protection, IT and consumer law.)
You will help set the Woo business and legal processes up for scale creating frameworks and guidance to ensure compliance and governance in line with the wider ITV business functions.
This is an exciting opportunity to be the lead legal contact, in a role which is highly integrated within the business. You will help our commercial, creative and operational teams solve complex problems, launch new projects and deliver against strategic business objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Liaising with teams across the business and the wider ITV team, implementing legal solutions to a range of complex problems
- Develop and lead the continuous improvement of Woo’s standard form agreements and legal processes.
- Assisting the business SMEs with the drafting of tenders and negotiation of contracts with suppliers of other goods and services.
- Advising on a wide range of matters including IP, data privacy, IT, commercial, ecommerce, corporate, consumer and employment law, within the framework of ITV’s standard positions and escalation procedures
- Keeping abreast of industry regulation, providing legal, commercial and strategic advice on governance and law change developments across social, media, ecommerce, GDPR and ePrivacy
- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating third party commercial contracts.
- Cooperation with external law firms and specialists.
- Managing the legal budget.
- Negotiating agreements that comply with company policies and ITV risk tolerance.
- Develop and implement education and training programs on topics where Woo employees should be aware of the legal background or context.
- Managing capture and storage of contracts.
Requirements
To be considered for this opportunity you will need to demonstrate the following skills:
Minimum Role Criteria
- A qualified lawyer with at least 3 years post qualification experience.
- Suitable experience from an in-house or private practice environment, ideally:
- experience of working in a fast moving, diverse and dynamic environment like a start up/ scale up.
- experience of working in the e-commerce/ marketplace industry.
ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from disabled people and as a Disability Confident Leader if you meet the minimum criteria for a role and you have declared that you are disabled, we’ll guarantee you’ll get to the next stage* (minimum criteria above).
The Key Role Criteria Is As Follows
- You will be a problem solver - using your expertise, commercial acumen & common sense to find solutions to complex problems and ways forward for new projects.
- You will be able to summarise and effectively communicate complex legal concepts to stakeholders within the business at all levels; be flexible and intuitive in all communications.
- You will have experience of drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial agreements with minimal supervision.
- You will be an experienced and effective negotiator with a track record of brokering key deals in a timely and cost effective manner.
- You will have experience of working in a deadline driven environment and managing input from multiple stakeholders.
We're happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during our application & selection process as part of our reasonable adjustments approach. So we encourage you to get in touch with us if you require anything... our email is talkingcareers@itv.com .
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