Want to use your career’s worth of expertise to help guide one of the UK’s fastest-growing daily deal companies? Then becoming Wowcher’s General Counsel may be the perfect step for you.
So what’s the job?
Wowcher are looking for a legal counsel with commercial experience to fulfil the role of General Counsel. In this role, you will act as sole counsel, sitting on the Executive Team and advising on commercial and regulatory matters across the business in the UK and Ireland. This is an exciting chance to help shape one of the market-leaders in e-Commerce!
What will you be doing?
Commercial and data protection:
- Providing day to day advice to the business on commercial and regulatory matters
- Advising all areas of the business on a range of contractual matters, including IT advertising agreements, contracts with media agencies, digital marketing agreements, intellectual property licences, services agreements, data processing agreements and sales agreements
- Advising on data protection legislation and best practices
- Negotiating and drafting sales contracts and addendums
- Handling litigation: evaluating claims and drafting settlement agreements, statements of claim and witness statements
- Advising on the existence and ownership of intellectual property rights, potential infringements, strategies for protecting them and their registration
- Reviewing marketing promotions and social media campaigns
Consumer:
- Advising Customer Services team and acting as point of escalation for the team
- Acting as contact point for Trading Standards and the Advertising Standards Authority
- Looking into regulatory requirements for a range of products and services
Governance and corporate:
- Corporate support work
- Advising on legislative compliance, risks and challenges to the business including in relation to GDPR, PECR and FSMA
- Managing relationships with external legal providers in the UK and Republic of Ireland
- Working with the executive team on the acquisition or potential acquisition of businesses or on corporate restructures
Employment:
- Supporting the HR team by drafting policies and procedures and template agreements,
- Advising on employment relation issues
Real Estate:
- Negotiating leases, short-term licences to occupy and licences to alter
What are they looking for? 🕵️
These are the essential requirements:
- Understanding of high confidentiality in role
- Ability to prioritise and work flexibly, navigating quickly and comfortably between various different subject matters and shifting priorities
- Exceptional organisational skills are requisite
- Excellent written and verbal communication with a range of stakeholders is essential
And the nice-to-haves:
- Minimum 5 years PQE in a commercial role with in-house experience
- Prior e-Commerce experience is encouraged
- System knowledge of OneTrust is desired
The exciting bits!
- 25 days holiday plus 8 days bank holiday
- Pension
- Season ticket loan
- Cycle scheme
- Brand new, modern office
- Casual dress everyday
- Employee Assistance Provider – Confidential, independent support, counselling and advice service
- Lively social working culture, including ‘All-Bar-Wowcher’, sports and numerous other office events and activities
- Plus many more…
The key details
💰 £70-80,000, dependent on experience
📍 Located in their Dalston office
More about Wowcher
Founded in 2011, Wowcher is a diverse promotion marketplace that provides customers major savings on local businesses, travel and consumer goods. In addition to this, through their reach we deliver marketing solutions which allow their merchants to grow and manage their businesses in a sustainable way.
There’s nothing that excites them more than finding new businesses to partner up with. Whether it’s helping you get more people through the door or facilitating the sale of your goods.
They’re also always looking for great people to join the Wowcher family – people who are as enthusiastic as they are and, just as importantly, embrace a positive and supportive culture.
If you can imagine yourself in an environment that you grow in and you embody our values of being Innovative, Passionate, a Team Player, Honest & Open, this could be the place for you.