Groupm Legal Counsel Milano

Groupm Legal Counsel
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

GroupM is looking for a Legal Counsel to act as in-house legal counsel to GroupM and its agencies in Italy.

The role will report into the WPP Head of Legal in Italy with a dotted line to the GroupM Global General Counsel.

It sits within the GroupM legal community which is part of the WPP global legal team.

**Responsibilities

As well as working closely with the commercial team, the key areas of responsibility for this role are:

- Drafting, negotiating and advising on a range of media services, creative content, IT supplier agreements, technology licences, data processing agreements and non-disclosure agreements

- Drafting and negotiating talent/influencer agreements

- Advising on regulatory and policy compliance

- Supporting the business on deal making in relation to complex and innovative projects

- Keeping abreast of industry regulation, providing legal advice on governance and law change developments across social, media, ecommerce, data privacy and security issues, the transfer, use and storage of data and ePrivacy

- Training and advising the business on risk, compliance, protection matters and relevant aspects of law

- Working with other key stakeholders in the business to set strategy and policies for managing risk in new and emerging products and services

- Helping to create a high profile of the legal resource throughout the business and encouraging active legal involvement in operational decision making

- Responsibility for legal aspects of pitch responses and client renegotiations

- Managing relationships with internal group counsel (WPP/GroupM) & external law firms and other professional advisors (notably auditors)

- Development of user friendly contract templates that can be utilised across the business

- Managing capture and storage of contracts

- Coordinating the implementation of GroupM level legal initiatives

- Implementing data privacy good practice and assisting the business with data privacy compliance issues

- Managing & preventing client litigation

- Advising on reputation management

- IP and copyright

**Experience and Qualifications

- Essential criteria:_

- 5 years post qualification experience

- Excellent communicator - ability to explain legal issues clearly without jargon to commercial teams and clients

- Ability to draft from precedent and from scratch

- Ability to prioritize, solve problems and provide business solutions to legal issues in a fast-paced environment

- Ability to manage fast-paced workload and escalate issues as appropriate

- Commercial thinker - ability to understand the tensions between commercial objectives and legal requirements, and resolve those tensions

- Operational / commercial experience, must be able to add-value, support / enable / facilitate change

- Collaborative team player, relationship builder with a can-do attitude, lots of energy and drive required with a well-structured and precise way of working

- Fluency in English

- Desirable criteria:_

- Media / advertising contract experience desirable but not essential

**Location

Wpp Campus in Milan (plus the option for hybrid working)