Legal Counsel

The Boston Consulting Group GmbH; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a skilled Legal Counsel to join their Global Legal team. In this pivotal role, you will champion supplier contracting and risk management standards, providing expert legal advice while navigating complex global legal issues. You will draft and negotiate contracts across diverse categories, ensuring compliance and alignment with business objectives. The ideal candidate is a proactive, resourceful lawyer with strong analytical skills and a collaborative spirit, ready to thrive in a dynamic environment. Join a team committed to excellence and innovation, where your contributions will drive meaningful change.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of international supplier contracting experience.
• Fluency in English and preferably one additional European language.

Responsibilities

• Draft and negotiate agreements for various goods and services.
• Provide actionable legal advice and manage contract workflows.

Skills

Commercial Contracting

Negotiation Skills

Analytical Skills

Problem-Solving

Team Collaboration

Education

Law Degree

Job description

Who We Are

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

What You'll Do

As a Legal Counsel within BCG's Legal Team’s Commercial Contracting CoE, you will work in a global team as a champion of BCG’s supplier contracting and risk management standards. You are a seasoned and skilled lawyer, able to independently address the full range of global legal issues facing BCG and with a particular expertise in all aspects of commercial contracting with a focus on supplier or buy-side contracting. Among other things, you will:

• Draft, review/redline, and negotiate agreements for a wide array of goods and services categories such as: Professional Services; Marketing and Communications; HR; Software/SaaS; Real Estate and Facilities; Data and Research Services and various other essential operational and logistical agreements for BCG’s Enterprise Procurement & Payables team, as well as other BCG stakeholders
• Negotiate legal terms based on BCG’s specific business requirements including coordinating with other colleagues in on the Legal team, and colleagues on BCG’s insurance, risk, compliance, and IT security teams
• Provide general support and management of a full spectrum of business and legal issues; identify risks and issues and suggest alternative solutions; implement, help create, and champion BCG contracting and other policies and processes; contribute to developing and maintaining Legal team know-how, templates, playbooks, and training materials to drive consistency and efficiency
• Provide clear, actionable legal advice and independently drive matters to resolution with minimal oversight; Exercise sound judgment and make well-reasoned decisions in real time, even in ambiguous or high-pressure situations; Manage contract workflows efficiently and take ownership from intake through execution
• Team successfully across BCG and integrate fully into BCG's Global Legal Team to resolve or support resolution of complex legal issues
• Perform other duties as assigned or required

The successful candidate will:

• Be a collaborative, kind, high-energy, confident, self-starter who is able to work both independently and within a global team; capable of making decisions independently and managing multiple priorities
• Be equally comfortable working with BCG contract templates as well as third-party paper
• Be proactive, resourceful, and solution-oriented — you don’t wait to be told what to do
• Emotionally intelligent and team-oriented - you’re respectful, generous with your time and knowledge, and bring positive energy to your work
• Have superior analytical skills and a creative approach to problem-solving
• Be a life-long learner with a growth mindset, intellectual curiosity, open to technology and new ways of working, with a talent for absorbing new skill sets and areas of expertise quickly and comfortably and the flexibility to deal with a diverse international set of stakeholders, suppliers, and clients

What You'll Bring

• Law degree from an accredited law school and admitted to practice in at least one jurisdiction
• 5-7 years of international supplier contracting experience supporting global Procurement and third-party risk functions. Familiarity with regulations such as data protection, ESG compliance, and anti-bribery and corruption laws
• English fluency; one or more additional European languages strongly preferred (German, French, Spanish, Portuguese)
• A proven ability to identify issues, analyze problems, and provide commercial direction in plain language to non-Legal team stakeholders
• Excellent verbal, written, organizational and negotiation skills, succinct writing style, good business judgement, and strategic thinking
• Ability to balance risk management with a pragmatic “does it matter” approach to contract reviews, with a working style that balances collaboration and teamwork with the ability to handle a high volume of contracts autonomously with minimal oversight

Who You'll Work With

BCG’s Global Legal team is a critical element in the firm’s management infrastructure. It acts as both a trusted advisor to management and an activist agent of change. It is a global community of collaborative professionals with an immutable commitment to excellence.

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
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