Head of Legal

Confused.com; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working: 2 days in the Cardiff/

10% discretionary yearly bonus

Pension contributions up to 7.5%

Work from home budget £300

Generous holiday and leave policy

Private medical cover

Gym access

Learning and training budget

Job summary

Confused.com, based in Cardiff, is seeking a Head of Legal to provide strategic legal leadership across the business. This role reports to the Group Head of Legal and will shape standards, processes, and ethical culture while delivering commercially minded advice.

You will lead the legal team, manage external advisers, oversee regulatory and contract work, and contribute to AI-enabled transformations. The position is hybrid with 2 days in the Cardiff office.

Qualifications

• Qualified Solicitor with current practising certificate and in-house experience
• Proven experience drafting, negotiating and concluding complex commercial transactions
• Strong expertise in data protection and e-privacy law
• Experience advising and influencing senior stakeholders on complex matters

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic legal advice to stakeholders including senior leadership
• Lead negotiations on complex commercial contracts (supplier, partner, software and data licensing)
• Advise business teams on data protection and e-privacy compliance with Group DPO
• Lead, mentor and develop the legal team and manage external advisers
• Act as main contact for crisis management, disputes and litigation guidance
• Carry out company secretarial duties and support the Board and senior finance leadership
• Oversee regulatory compliance as a FCA-authorised firm and manage external counsel
• Drive AI and process transformation in legal functions
• Maintain up-to-date precedent documents and deliver legal training to managers

Skills

Qualified Solicitor (England & Wales)

Commercial Expertise

Data Protection Knowledge

Leadership & Influence

AI tooling experience

Education

Legal degree / Solicitor qualification

Tools

AI tooling

Job description

Department: Business Services

Location: Cardiff

Hybrid: 2 days per week in our Cardiff office

About Confused.com

Confused.com is the UK’s first comparison platform for car insurance. We’ve been helping customers since 2002 by empowering them to make better decisions around insurance and financial services.

We’re part of RVU, a group of online brands that include: Uswitch, Tempcover, money.co.uk, and Mojo Mortgages.

About The Role

We're looking for a Head of Legal to join us at Confused.com, based in our Cardiff office. Reporting into our Group Head of Legal, you’ll provide legal leadership across the business, working with key stakeholders and leading our legal team. You'll give proactive, commercially minded advice, and you'll set the standards and processes that reinforce a culture of integrity, quality and ethical behaviour. We move quickly, challenge the way things have been done in the past and set the highest expectations, so in this role you'll have a real commercial and strategic impact on how we deliver our goals.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Strategic Legal Advice: Advising stakeholders of varying disciplines and seniority, including senior leadership, on legal, strategic and risk issues, and making sure our exposure when contracting with third parties is appropriately balanced.
• Commercial Contracts: Leading negotiations on complex commercial contracts, including supplier, partner, software and data licensing agreements and general terms and conditions.
• Data Protection and Compliance: Working closely with the Group DPO to advise business teams on data protection and e-privacy compliance, and supporting the IT and marketing teams with their contractual needs.
• Leading the Confused Legal Team: Leading, mentoring and developing the legal team, with an emphasis on training and development, while managing our panel of external advisers.
• Risk, Disputes and Crisis Management: Acting as the key contact for crisis management (including litigation and brand protection), and guiding the business through contract disputes and minor litigation.
• Corporate and Governance: Carrying out company secretarial duties for Confused.com, supporting the Board and senior finance leadership.
• Regulatory Responsibility: This is a Certified role under the FCA’s Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR). You will lead the legal advice and oversight that keeps Confused.com compliant as an FCA-authorised firm.
• External stakeholder management: management of external legal advisors for specialist areas of law.
• AI and process transformation: leading and contributing to team initiatives to adopt AI and other legal technologies to transform legal processes.
• Standards and Knowledge: maintaining up-to-date precedent documents, keeping the business informed of relevant laws and policies, and delivering legal training to managers and teams.

Essentials

What we’re looking for

• Qualified Solicitor: Qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales (or another common law jurisdiction) with a current practising certificate and an extensive legal track record that includes relevant in-house experience.
• Commercial Expertise: Proven experience drafting, negotiating and concluding complex commercial transactions
• Data Protection Knowledge: Strong expertise in data protection and e-privacy law
• Leadership and Influence: Experience advising and influencing senior stakeholders on complex matters involving multiple parties.

Desirable

• Experience of using AI tooling within legal processes
• A practical understanding of intellectual property and competition law issues
• Experience of the insurance sector or other regulated sector

Our commitment to you

We are dedicated to developing valuable, inclusive, and user-friendly products and services that deliver positive outcomes for all of our customers. To achieve this, it’s essential that our teams reflect the diverse range of people in our community. We believe in being the change we wish to see in the world, by embracing our differences and holding ourselves accountable to being open and inclusive teammates and wider community members.

What We Offer

We want to give you a great work environment, support your growth both personally and professionally, and provide benefits that make your time at RVU even more enjoyable. Here are some of the benefits you can look forward to:

• 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance)
• A hybrid working approach with 2 in-office days per week and up to 22 working days per year to “work from anywhere”
• Employer matching pension contributions up to 7.5%
• A one-off £300 “work from home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
• Excellent maternity, paternity, shared parental, and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
• 25 days holiday (increasing to 30 days) + 2 days “my time” per year
• Private medical cover, critical illness cover, dental plans, and employee assistance programme
• Free gym access
• Employee discounts programme
• A healthy learning and training budget to support your development
• Electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes
• Regular events - from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected.