Senior Counsel

Cencora; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Cencora’s World Courier unit in London seeks a Senior Counsel to lead complex commercial contracts and provide strategic legal guidance. The role emphasizes negotiating high-stakes agreements, managing regulatory obligations, and aligning legal work with business objectives across multiple jurisdictions.

The successful candidate will bring substantial post-qualification experience, strong English communication, and the ability to supervise and coordinate with external counsel when needed.

Qualifications

• Legal practice experience in commercial contracts and negotiations.
• Experience with corporate governance and regulatory compliance.
• Ability to deliver business-focused, efficient legal services across jurisdictions.

Responsibilities

• Draft, negotiate and advise on commercial agreements reflecting World Courier’s strategy and risk profile.
• Support global contracting strategy and external risk assessment.
• Promote legal strategy and ensure regulatory compliance across jurisdictions.

Skills

Contract drafting

Negotiation

Regulatory compliance

Corporate governance

Project management

English fluency

Education

Qualified lawyer in UK/EU/US

Tools

Microsoft Word

Excel

PowerPoint

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Job Details

This role is in support of Cencora's global logistics and storage services marketed through our World Courier business.

Position Summary

This position is a senior counsel role within the legal team at World Courier, a subsidiary of Cencora Corporation, in its central London office. The Senior Counsel reports to World Courier VP & General Counsel. The key focus of the role is to support the World Courier’s contract negotiations, corporate governance, regulatory compliance and related activities. The role requires a lawyer with strong legal skills and the ability to deliver business-oriented, effective and efficient legal services, project management, and strategic counseling on significant business or corporate matters or in a particular specialty practice area (i.e commercial and contracts law).

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Draft, negotiate and advise on commercial agreements to ensure that these contracts accurately reflect World Courier’s strategy and objectives and minimize exposure to legal and regulatory risk.
• Provide support to the business on global contracting strategy, contract language review and external risk assessment.
• Promote World Courier’s legal strategy and ensure compliance with regulatory obligations as the business expands into different jurisdictions and adjacent markets/services.
• Independently handle complex legal projects, utilizing relevant technical legal skills and provide legal advice on legal matters and issues arising, with minimal supervision
• Represent World Courier and relevant client groups on regular business contract negotiations and other business matters, including NDAs, commercial services agreements, quality agreements, corporate governance and regulatory compliance. The Senior Counsel will often be required to play an integral part in both legal and business negotiations in these situations.
• Demonstrate decision-making capability, in particular offering both business-oriented and legally compliant solutions to clients.
• Manage multiple matters and effectively prioritize tasks to ensure that work is completed in a timely and efficient matter.

Experience and Educational Requirements

Minimum of 3 to 4 years of post-qualification experience as a lawyer in the UK, an EU country or US, combined with expertise in one or more specialty areas of legal practice (ideally, commercial law with experience of drafting and negotiating commercial services agreements).

Additional language skills to a native or business fluent standard would be an advantage, given the global nature of World Courier’s business.

The Senior Counsel role is comparable to a senior associate in a law firm and who is capable of undertaking sophisticated work as an individual contributor (with minimal guidance and oversight from their manager in most instances) and/or supervise and project manage other individual legal professionals to do the work.

Minium Skills, Knowledge and Ability Requirements

• Good working knowledge of corporate and commercial law, including contract drafting and negotiation and settlement of claims
• Adept at handling significant legal projects, matters and issues with good to excellent technical legal skills and expertise
• Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals
• Comfortable supervising external counsel and monitoring associated legal spend Excellent judgment and ability to resolve complex issues effectively
• Ability to follow and interpret legal trends in multiple jurisdictions
• Ability to communicate fluently and effectively in English, both orally and in writing
• Strong interpersonal skills, negotiating skills and leadership skills
• Strong organizational skills; attention to detail and strong presentation skills
• Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint

What Cencora offers

Benefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.

Full time

Affiliated Companies

Affiliated Companies: World Courier Management Ltd.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

The company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

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