Lawyer

Lawyer, Partnerships

Job Req ID: 16642 Posting Date: 22 May 2023 Function: Legal and Governance Location: Assembly, Bristol, United Kingdom Salary: Competitive
Why this job matters
You will join a talented, hands on and exciting team of lawyers working closely with other lawyers, industry experts, engineers, product teams and commercial teams to deliver amazing new products and services for our customers. We are dedicated to growing our business and protecting its interests. We provide practical, business-focussed advice and solutions to our business stakeholders, taking a risk-aware not risk-averse approach.
We work on the cutting edge of technology and need to apply 20th century laws to 21st century problems. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical thinking.
The role holder will assist and at times may lead for BT legal on the most complex matters providing quality and timely legal support and/or advice across Consumer’s devices, products, partnerships and/or media including complex bids, in-life, partnering, strategy, disputes, procurement. Together with a particularly heavy focus on legal transactional and commercial advisory work to senior members across Consumer including, Marketing, TV, IT and Digital.
What you’ll be doing

• You will ensure compliance with legislation and regulations: ensuring agreements which BT/EE enters into do not breach relevant legislation. Preparing reports and interacting with to senior stakeholders to convey key issues succinctly and concisely.
• You will provide legal training to the business as required. Keeping abreast of current and future best practice.
• You will be expected to help Consumer maintain and increase revenue and protect the value of the BT brands. You will liaise with stakeholders across consumer regarding legal requirements.
• You will develop and maintain individual relationships with internal Consumer and Corporate Legal teams, Regulatory Affairs, Corporate Affairs and Group Brand
• You will collaborate with the rest of the rest of the partnerships legal team and more widely across Consumer and Group Legal.

The skills you’ll need

• Knowledge of technology, the telecoms industry and convergence
• Understanding of Consumer’s business objectives, processes and systems, and the legal and regulatory framework in which BT operates.
• Comfortable influencing/delivering strategically important projects for BT
• Ability to question intelligently, challenge rigorously and recommend – with sound business judgment- a course of action to a stakeholder;
• Excellent drafting, communication, stakeholder management, organisation, influencing and persuading skills;
• Strong team player;
• Ability to work under time pressure to demanding timescales; and
• Self-motivated, proactive, optimistic, energetic, resilient, effective at prioritising and able to deal with multiple matters at the same time.

Benefits

• 25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays, and additional days for length of service
• 10% on target bonus
• Life Assurance
• Pension scheme - If you pay in a minimum of 5% of your pensionable salary every month we will pay in 10%
• 50% off BT and EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
• BT TV, including BT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership, and 25% off NOW Sport, Cinema and Kids
• 30% discount for friends and family on EE mobile pay monthly and SIM only plans
• Shared Parental leave - maximum amount of leave you can share with your partner is 50 weeks
• 3 volunteering days per year
• Competitive employee discount on BT/EE products
• Competitive friends and family discount on EE Mobile
• Access to our brand new, innovative office spaces, including our new office in London which opened this year
• Access and involvement with our incredible 11 People Networks including Able2 network, Carers network, Ethnic diversity network, Gender equality network and Pride network

About us BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.
Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’
We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.
This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.