Legal Counsel

Legal Counsel focuses on providing support on transactional matters including legal advice, contract negotiation and drafting.

What the role involves

• Providing support on transactional matters including legal advice, contract negotiation and drafting.
• Provide best in practice professional legal services aligned with the strategic drivers of the business ensuring significant impact.
• Builds relationships with the aim to become the trusted business partner including stakeholder management.
• Act as a role model in the team, actively endorsing team operating principles including on teamwork and collaboration, change, working in an international environment, and open and.

Skills and requirements

• Have substantial in-house legal experience (7 to 10 years+) and preferably also experience working for a law firm.
• Have extensive experience working in the United States and/or with North American customers.
• Have excellent academic qualifications and substantial relevant experience in providing legal advice.
• Support to businesses.

Additional role context

• Our Commercial Sales Legal Counsel will be a business partner to our Elsevier Academic and Government and Corporate Sales teams in North America with some support to our Latin Amer.
• Provide legal support and guidance to our Sales teams, and work closely with our contract managers and sales support teams and will be part of the Elsevier Legal team reporting int.
• Legal support has a strong focus on commercial transactions interacting directly with our customers.