VodafoneThree - Consumer Product Counsel (12 Months FTC)

Working Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday The successful candidate will support the delivery of high-quality legal advice on a range of 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. Deliver high-quality, pragmatic and solution-oriented legal advice across a range of consumer product issues including advertising; FCA regulated product (eg. Loans and/or insurance) experience would be welcomed but nois not essential. Support legal strategy on Consumer Legal Team objectives and strategy. Support compliance with relevant legislation and regulation, safeguarding commercial integrity. Build strong, collaborative relationships with internal stakeholders across the Consumer Business Unit. Support legal risk assessment across the strategic priorities set out above. Work with robust assurance frameworks to mitigate exposure to regulatory, financial and reputational risks. Contribute training and guidance for teams across the business on legal topics relevant to the team's key stakeholders. Proactively contribute ideas to drive continuous improvement in legal processes, embedding automation, simplification and scalability to support legal efficiency, and increase business self-serve. Proactively monitor regulatory and legislative developments impacting the team's practice area. Identify opportunities to support the immediate and wider Legal team's learning and development. Legal Expertise: Experience as a qualified lawyer in a leading consumer facing company, telco experience is desirable. Understanding of the retail, technology and telecoms sectors and knowledge of applicable legal trends. Proactively manages legal risk, balancing risk and mitigations proportionately to enable the business to meet its financial and growth targets. Able to apply sound commercial judgement to balance legal risk with business opportunity, to enable strategic decision making aligned with business priorities. Possess effective stakeholder management and negotiation skills, enabling influence across internal teams and external parties. Builds trusted relationships that drive alignment and support strategic outcomes. Applies legal analysis and data to problems, to extract critical insights and shape pragmatic solutions. Communicates outcomes with clarity and precision, tailoring messages appropriately to diverse audiences to support confident decision-making across the business.