VodafoneThree - Commercial Paralegal

Working Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday This role involves supporting legal compliance across strategic projects, procurement, wholesale, and AI initiatives. The successful candidate will lead the delivery of high quality legal advice on high-impact initiatives, manage legal risk, and ensure compliance with evolving legislation. Building strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners is crucial, as is driving continuous improvement in legal processes. High quality legal advice: Provide clear, pragmatic legal support across strategic projects, procurement, wholesale and AI, ensuring compliance and protecting commercial integrity. Internal stakeholder management: Build strong relationships, deliver aligned and timely legal advice, support cross functional collaboration and help manage risk. Risk assessment and assurance: Support legal risk assessments and apply assurance frameworks to minimise regulatory, financial and reputational exposure. Governance and improvement: Support training, streamline legal processes, promote automation and scalability, and help embed best practice across teams. External stakeholder management: Maintain effective relationships with suppliers, customers, group functions, external counsel and commercial partners. Horizon scanning: Monitor relevant regulatory and legislative developments, share knowledge and contribute to legal team learning and positive change. Legal experience: Experience working in an in house legal team or within a commercial contracting team in private practice. Industry knowledge: Understanding of the technology and telecoms sectors, with awareness of relevant legal trends. Risk management: Proactively manages legal risk with appropriate oversight, balancing risk and mitigation to support business targets and enabling efficiencies through process and technology improvements. Commercial acumen: Able, or able to develop the capability, to balance legal risk with commercial opportunity to support strategic, business aligned decisions. Stakeholder and external engagement: Able, or able to develop the capability, to manage stakeholders effectively, negotiate well, and build trusted relationships that support alignment and strategic outcomes. Analytical and communication skills: Applies legal analysis and data to extract key insights and generate pragmatic solutions, communicating clearly and appropriately to diverse audiences with suitable supervision.