Senior Legal Counsel

What You’ll Do as Senior Legal Counsel

We want you to feel challenged and inspired. Here, you’ll develop your skills across a range of responsibilities:

• Provide Strategic Legal Advice: Deliver timely, commercially focused legal advice across retail, digital, technology and operational initiatives, supporting key transformation and growth projects across the business. • Lead Commercial Contract Negotiations: Draft, negotiate and conclude a broad range of commercial agreements, partnering with stakeholders to achieve practical and commercially beneficial outcomes. • Partner Across the Business: Build strong relationships with teams across Retail, Technology, Digital, Marketing, Finance, People & Culture and Supply Chain, acting as a trusted legal advisor. • Influence Business Decision-Making: Support and challenge stakeholders at all levels, providing legal insight that informs strategic and operational decisions. • Drive Legal Excellence: Contribute to the development of a high-performing legal function by promoting collaboration, embedding efficiencies and continuously improving processes and ways of working. • Manage Risk and External Counsel: Monitor legal and regulatory developments, manage external legal partners where required, and translate complex legal advice into clear, actionable guidance for the business.

What You’ll Bring

Here at Primark, we want everyone to feel valued – so please bring your authentic self to work, of course with some other key experience and abilities for this role in particular:

• Qualified Legal Expertise: Qualified lawyer with 7-10+ years’ post-qualification experience gained in a leading law firm and/or in-house legal environment. • Commercial Contracting Excellence: Strong commercial contract drafting, negotiation and risk assessment skills, with the ability to deliver practical, business-focused solutions. • Strategic Legal Advisory Skills: Proven experience advising business leaders on legal risk, helping to balance commercial objectives with appropriate risk management. • Project & Change Management Experience: Demonstrated success supporting complex operational change and transformation projects, coordinating legal input to drive successful outcomes. • Stakeholder Influence & Relationship Building: Ability to build trusted partnerships and influence stakeholders at all levels through clear communication, sound judgement and a collaborative approach. • Global & Sector Knowledge: Experience navigating complex legal issues in fast-paced environments, with international experience and/or exposure to the retail or fashion sectors considered an advantage.

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