Legal Counsel - Wex Europe Services : Job Details

PROCUREMENT LEGAL COUNSEL / HYBRID / LONDON OR MANCHESTER/ UP TO £94,000 PLUS BENEFITS

Are you a qualified Lawyer, looking for an exciting new challenge? If so, we have an amazing new opportunity for you to join our dynamic organisation. Highly competitive pay, hybrid working and extensive benefits package.

WEX is an innovative payments and technology company looking to forge the way in a rapidly changing environment, with a goal to simplify the business of doing business for our customers, freeing them to spend more time, with less worry, on the things they love.

We are on a journey to build consistent world class user experience across our products and services and leverage customer driven innovative across all of our strategic initiatives.

Reporting to the Legal Director, Global Procurement, this role will provide legal support to WEX’s Business Owners and Procurement Team on a range of vendor engagements, as well as other third-party transactions and related matters. Specifically, this role will provide strategic and tactical legal advice on WEX’s engagement of third-party vendors/service providers in connection with all WEX lines of business.

The ideal candidate will have a technology background, with an understanding of the legal and practical components of vendor engagement and related considerations, have strong experience with relevant data privacy laws, rules and regulations, and be comfortable solving complex, time-sensitive problems in close partnership with a variety of cross-functional stakeholders.

What’s on offer?

• Highly competitive salary between £84,000-£94,000 (dependant on experience)
• Annual company bonus
• 40 hour week - Monday to Friday, no evenings or weekends
• Hybrid working- 2 days per week in rather Manchester or London office
• Industry leading pension
• Private Medical
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays - with the opportunity to purchase additional holidays
• Life assurance and Income protection
• Gym Flex membership
• Discounts & perks platform
• Employee wellbeing

Key Responsibilities of the Legal Counsel:

• Draft, review and negotiate a wide variety of vendor and third-party agreements, including technology licenses (software-as-a-service, software, cloud, and related ancillary documents, including SLAs, security exhibits, and privacy addenda), consulting, professional services, telecom, hardware, marketing, real estate, and other services agreements and related documentation.
• Ensure all procurement activities comply with applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, including procurement policies.
• Identify, manage, and escalate issues and risks arising during vendor and third-party discussions and/or negotiations and provide actionable recommendations.
• Provide general in-house support for legal matters concerning the WEX Procurement and Vendor Risk Management Teams’ initiatives, activities and operations.
• Actively assist in the development and maintenance of standard templates and playbooks for vendor agreements; provide guidance on development and maintenance of contracting standards, policies and processes.
• Develop training materials and conduct training sessions for the WEX Procurement and Vendor Risk Management Teams and other business owners/stakeholders.
• Present complex issues in a clear and concise manner and provide succinct results-oriented legal advice to business owners and stakeholders.
• Work closely with the Procurement and Vendor Risk Management Teams to further develop, maintain, operationalize and foster awareness of and compliance with policies and processes related to vendor assessment, on-boarding, risk and performance monitoring, policy compliance, and offboarding.
• Manage and resolve specific contractual queries and pre-litigation disputes related to vendor and other third-party contracts.
• Maintain a current understanding of relevant laws, regulations, industry standards and policy trends relevant to WEX products and technology, including those related to data privacy, IP, trade secrets, artificial intelligence and data security.
• Proactively contribute to the development of the WEX Legal Team culture and practices and assisting with other projects and matters in areas which may include information security, compliance, contract management, mergers and acquisitions and other legal and regulatory issues.
• Collaborate closely within the WEX Legal Team to design, modify and implement company policies and processes to ensure legal compliance with internal policies, organizational goals, as well as applicable laws and regulations.

Experience you’ll bring:

• Qualified lawyer or practicing solicitor with current practicing certificate.
• Significant PQE in a well-regarded firm and/or corporation.
• Experience negotiating technology license agreements (software-as-a-service, software, cloud, and related ancillary documents, including SLAs, security exhibits, and privacy addenda).
• Experience negotiating consulting, professional services, telecom, hardware, marketing, and real estate agreements.
• Ability to project manage and gather business requirements to accomplish complex tasks with multiple stakeholders.
• Strong reviewing and drafting skills; commitment to quality through demonstrated accuracy and thoroughness.
• Ability to build strong internal relationships and to act as a legal resource for business and functional leaders globally.
• Sound judgment; ability to clearly make reasoned recommendations; ability to anticipate risk and be proactive in planning and communicating accordingly.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and GSuite; ability to ramp up quickly on other applications and systems, including document management systems.
• Must successfully pass a background investigation.

What’s next?

If you feel that you have the necessary skills to be our PROCUREMENT LEGAL COUNSEL, then please APPLY TODAY for immediate consideration.