Legal Counsel - Commercial

We’re the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.

Our Functions teams are right at the centre of our business, making sure we can always get better, every day. Supporting the business with things like Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Legal and Technology, our Functions colleagues are skilled professionals whose role it is to ensure we continue to become an indispensable partner to brands everywhere.

Job Details

Why this job is important

You’ll be part of a team that’s passionate about accelerating Kantar’s expertise and impact. In a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment, your pragmatic legal and commercial guidance in a fast-paced environment, with experience of operating in international markets and negotiating agreements with some of the world’s leading enterprises. You will have the capability to support Kantar on commercial legal matters, working with colleagues in Functions, Client Services and Operations. In a constantly evolving business environment where legal compliance and strategic legal advice are of paramount importance, our lawyers play a key role in ensuring our business integrity.

What you’ll be doing

• Delivering clear, actionable legal advice on contracting practices and various legal topics and laws to internal clients with proven ability to influence through persuasion at all levels
• Reviewing, drafting, and negotiating client, supplier, and partnership agreements in an international context
• Critical thinking and problem solving by providing pragmatic, actionable, outcome-based, and customer-centric advice to business leaders
• You will have a broad base of expertise including commercial agreements, professional services, intellectual property, technology and licensing dispute resolution which is applied to contract templates, negotiated contracts and compliance, with an interest in developing expertise in data protection and Artificial Intelligence (AI) laws to guide business clients
• Driving continuous improvement, developing guidelines, training, and legal knowledge resources

The skills & experience needed as Legal Counsel - Commercial

• A completed law degree (or equivalent legal background) from an accredited European university, and admission to a European legal bar association
• Excellent English language skills (additional European languages desirable)
• Strong communication, facilitation, and presentation skills
• Critical thinking and problem-solving ability, with a customer-centric approach
• Experience in commercial agreements, professional services, intellectual property, technology, licensing, and dispute resolution
• Interest in market and data analytics, and emerging technologies including AI
• Proficiency in MS Office and a willingness to adopt new tech tools (including Microsoft Co-Pilot)
• A collaborative, ethical, and growth-oriented mindset

What’s in it for you

• Competitive salary and annual bonus
• Hybrid working (3 days in the office)
• Up to 25 days off, life leave, plus your birthday off and two days paid for volunteering
• Meal card and flexible benefits where you are allocated funds to spend on a variety of benefits such as transport cost, education related and more

We are not able to offer visa sponsorship or assist with relocation support for this role. Please ensure you have the right to work in the country where this role is located before applying.

Country

Portugal

Why Join Kantar?

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever shifting world.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.