Legal Counsel (Temp Role – Maternity Cover)

Soprano Design; Albacete; Presencial; EUR 50.000 - 70.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading global communications platform is seeking a Legal Counsel to provide legal advice and support the organization's operations across Europe and LATAM. The role involves negotiating contracts, ensuring compliance with legislation, and advising on a variety of legal matters, including GDPR. With a focus on a collaborative environment, Soprano Design emphasizes technology and innovation to enhance enterprise communications.

Servicios

Competitive salaries

Flexible Working

Training and Development

Collaborative environment

Formación

• At least 5+ years’ post-qualified experience as a lawyer.
• Fluent in English and Spanish.
• Experience in top-tier law firms and relevant in-house roles.

Responsabilidades

• Negotiate and manage contractual terms with suppliers and customers.
• Advise on GDPR compliance and other legal issues.
• Provide timely, business-focused legal advice.

Conocimientos

Negotiation

Communication

Problem Solving

Educación

Qualified lawyer in a European jurisdiction

Descripción del empleo

Are you looking for a challenging opportunity in a fast-growing global organization?

Then this role must be for you!

Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, and operating globally, Soprano Design is a leading global communications platform as a service (CPaaS) provider that brings nearly 30 years of experience with enterprise-level mobile messaging to each of our over 4,500 government and enterprise clients around the globe.

Soprano’s flagship product, Soprano Connect, is an innovative award-winning CPaaS platform that helps customers to strategically integrate, email, SMS, voice, conversational AI, IP messaging and social channels such as RCS, WhatsApp and Google Business Messages into a seamless secure omni-channel business mobile messaging experience.

About the role

To provide legal advice to ensure continuing commercial success of this business across all business units in the organization. Providing legal expertise to commercial decision making to ensure compliance with relevant legislation. Supporting processes and procedures for the efficient provision of legal services and to mitigate risks. Reporting to the Head of Legal and Compliance in Australia and supporting the organization within the bounds of the Group's business model, corporate governance and related policies. Will primarily consist of negotiating / managing contractual terms with suppliers and large enterprise or government customers and advising on GDPR compliance.

This is a 12-month contract role to cover Maternity leave.

Responsibilities

• Timely contract reviews and negotiations for the Soprano Group in Europe and LATAM, including :

Customer service agreements (Managed Service Telecom Providers and direct SAAS)

Supplier agreements (carriers, aggregators and technology providers)

NDA’s, Data Processing Addendums and Data Transfer Agreements.

Consulting services agreements

Marketing and advertising material and contract

• Drafting and negotiating non-standard customer arrangements that minimize the company’s exposure to legal and commercial risk.
• Assisting sales team with the responses to legal and regulatory questions as part of RFTs and customer surveys.
• Providing timely, business-focused and proactive advice on a broad range of legal, regulatory and contractual issues, such as intellectual property, telecoms and privacy law.
• Providing legal input into the development of new products or customer offerings, including the development of new service terms and policies.
• Managing litigation and advising on claims, including labour claims with external support.
• Contributing to continuous improvement of processes, policies and precedents
• Managing outsourced legal services, e.g. for litigation or labour disputes, including collecting information for the consideration of external lawyers.
• Oversee corporate management of the legal entities and delegations of PoAs in the assigned regions with external support.
• Be the go-to person in the legal department with respect to international privacy matters including GDPR compliance with the support of an external DPO.
• Advise the business on employment law, corporate, finance, strategic initiatives, and ad hoc matters as required.

Soprano may from time to time or assign you additional duties and responsibilities.

Requirement :

• At least 5+ years’ post qualified experience as a lawyer in a European jurisdiction and with working in top tier law firm and relevant in-house experience
• Sound judgment and excellent communication
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills : Speak fluent English and Spanish
• Experience in managing competing demands, multitasking, ability to work under strong pressure, Strong negotiation skills, persuasive, solution maker.
• Creative problem solver who remains calm under pressure and who can effectively prioritize
• Full working rights in Spain

WHY WORK FOR SOPRANO :

• Work for a leader in the CPaaS industry : We are a leading enabler for enterprise communications, with a customer-centered approach that allows us to reach significant results with our clients and partners.
• Our focus on Technology : We pride ourselves on building technology for the future of communication that creates richer meanings, deeper trust and better connections.
• Global presence : Soprano is headquartered in Sydney, but we have a global presence in Europe, North America, South America, New Zealand and Southeast Asia
• Collaborative and inclusive environment : We are committed to a workplace environment where every employee is respected and empowered to be their best selves at work.
• Training and Development : We’re a small company with global presence that allows you to gain valuable insight and exposure to various markets worldwide
• Competitive salaries : We are a pay for performance company that values your contributions through our competitive salaries, rewards and recognition programs
• Flexible Working : We’re a lover of hybrid working, and this allows us to stay connected to our global teams while allocating time to do the things we love. Some roles are remote due to scope.

People are at the core of what we do and Soprano Design Pty Ltd is committed to a safe, diverse and inclusive workplace where we all thrive and succeed together. We encourage applications regardless of age, gender, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures. Please let us know if you require any adjustments to the recruitment process.

All successful applicants will need to providing two professional reference checks and is subject to satisfactory background checks