Legal Counsel - Commercial / IT / IP - Kent

Responsibilities include:

• Advising internal stakeholders and business functions on a wide range of legal matters, including contracts, trademarks and IPRs, legal risks and compliance.
• Reviewing, drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, including purchasing, supply, distribution, development, IP, IT and SaaS agreements.
• Creating, implementing, reviewing and updating contract templates for ongoing business use. Liaising and collaborating with 3rd party advisors, including lawyers, insurance brokers and privacy consultants.
• Supporting, maintaining and driving improvement in legal processes and systems to ensure efficiency and value add to the business.
• Drafting, reviewing and updating documents, policies, procedures and registers required under relevant data protection legislation and conducting data privacy impact assessments and legitimate interest assessments
• Dealing with data protection issues and queries, including breaches, and updating the data breach/incident register