Legal Counsel - Regulatory and Pan EU Affairs

Why join our team?
The EO Legal team Mission Statement is "Explore, Advise, Protect" - Collaborating with the business to resolve legal challenges and achieve commercial success! Our key aims are:

• To identify legal risks and deliver pragmatic & cost-effective solutions using our in-house perspective.


• Collaborate with the business to help Samsung grow.


• Develop and share standard process.


• Be a great place to work (GWP) for everyone in the team.


We provide valuable training and upskilling a great place to work for an outstanding brand. In return, we ask that you continuously challenge yourself and take a proactive approach to your learning experience - stretching yourself, seeking opportunities and taking on the feedback you receive along the way, You will work closely with EO Legal's Senior Legal Counsel, Regulatory and pan-EU Affairs and will provide strategic input and leadership for the practice area. The role works across the EU subsidiaries and liaises with HQ in Korea.

This role is highly demanding but also exciting and intellectually rewarding with opportunities to get closely involved in many different business areas and develop new skills across additional legal areas.

This responsibility requires the provision of prompt, reasoned and commercially focused legal advice on a broad spectrum of antitrust, consumer, and regulatory matters. Specifically, the role will include:


• advising on and managing strategic and day to day antitrust issues arising in relation to commercial contracts and key business initiatives within EO, the UK business and across the European subsidiaries, with a particular focus on distribution systems, aftersales (spare parts distribution), vertical restraints (pricing and promotions; market intelligence; cross border sales; eCommerce (pricing and dual distribution)), marketing (e.g. paid search/SEO), and market share assessments (to assess Art. 102 TFEU risks).


• advising the business on consumer law requirements, with a focus on ensuring marketing initiatives, product information and service terms and conditions comply with the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, Consumer Rights Directive, and Unfair Contract Terms Directive respectively.


• working alongside the European Public Affairs team to find opportunities and risks for the business arising from recent or upcoming legal initiatives.


• drafting and maintaining guidelines and training materials for EO and the European subsidiaries, and delivering antitrust, consumer law and other regulatory compliance training to various business divisions, as well as occasional briefings on other areas of law;


• supporting, and where required, leading on the management of regulatory investigations and merger inquiries at EU and occasionally national level, including monitoring and responding to Requests for Information (RFIs) from authorities in connection with such investigations/enquiries


• managing pan-European legal advice requests to provide the business with a consolidated legal view on a given subject or project.


• advising on intellectual property matters, particularly trademarks and copyright;


• acting as the first port of call for niche regulatory requests outside of the established work areas, such as Works Council regulation, product liability, right to repair/eco-design and medical device regulation; keeping up to date our record of key legislation and relevance for Samsung.
  
  The successful candidate will also be responsible for acting as a project manager on business initiatives requiring coordination across multiple legal fields and business teams,


• Qualifying law degree.


• Understanding of at least two out of antitrust consumer/marketing, IP and general regulatory law. The candidate will ideally have at least 3 years' experience of working in these areas of law in a well-established legal practice, major corporate and/or regulator.


• In-house experience advising on antitrust matters, and/or in a tech business is desirable.


• Experience working with regulatory investigations (e.g. RFIs) vertical restraints (distribution arrangements) and eCommerce are desirable, but not essential.


Behaviours

• highly effective communicators and be able to explain complex legal issues in a clear and concise manner, summarising legal concepts, risks and options to non-legally trained colleagues. This includes influencing and developing a good rapport with individuals from different backgrounds at all levels of the business.


• Must be committed to working within an "in-house" legal environment and must be motivated to overcome the antitrust and consumer challenges that a global consumer products brand faces.


• A team player who encourages others to excel and is at their best when collaborating to provide solutions with a constructive and team-first attitude.


• The role also includes line management responsibilities, currently with 1 x paralegal for this practice area. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate management skills and the ability to train up and encourage a graduate, equipping them with the skills required to work in the competiton and consumer world. This also includes evaluating performance constructively and robustly.


• Commercially minded and able to identify solutions to help the business reach goals. This will sometimes requrie compromises and innovative thinking, and sometimes honest and firm advice that a request is too risky.


• We need a quick learner able to pick up new commercial and legal concepts under pressure. Attention to detail is essential, as is an ability to multi-task and keep across a busy and varied workload. People skills and the ability to communciate very well with non lawyers, are also vital for the role.


• The candidate will be well-organised, in order to effectively manage multiple legal advice files, RFI responses and pan-European advice requests without losing track of priorities.
  
  Hybrid working - 3 days in the office and 2 days at home per week


• Bonus scheme linked to individual, team and company performance


• Car allowance (delete if not appropriate)


• Pension contribution


• Three volunteering days each year


• Holiday - 25 days plus bank holidays and an additional day off for your birthday


• Access to discounts on a wide range of Samsung products


• Access to a discount shopping portal


• Partner Colleagues are not eligible for certain types of statutory leave such as Samsung Family Leave or Sick Leave policies but may be eligible for statutory payments via their agency