Senior Counsel, Services

Mastercard; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Senior Counsel to join its legal team in London. This role involves providing legal support for various initiatives within the Services business, focusing on drafting and negotiating commercial contracts. The ideal candidate will possess strong negotiation skills and transactional experience, capable of managing complex legal issues while supporting business objectives.

Qualifications

• Solid transactional training and experience, preferably from a highly reputable law firm.
• Strong drafting and negotiation skills to manage complex issues and deal structure.

Responsibilities

• Structure, draft, and negotiate high-volume commercial contracts.
• Counsel the business on deal matters and general business matters.

Skills

Negotiation

Contract Drafting

Communication

Education

Qualified solicitor or attorney

Job description

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build asustainableeconomy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactionssecure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Senior Counsel, Services • Mastercard is looking for an energized commercial attorney to join its dynamic legal team to serve as a legal partner to the Services business of Mastercard. Mastercard Services provides end-to-end solutions through its innovative and proprietary transaction data analyses, data-driven consulting, predictive analyses, and marketing and loyalty services to help our clients strategically optimize, streamline, and grow their businesses.
• Under the direction of the VP, Senior Managing Counsel, this position will provide legal and general support for the Mastercard Services business, focused on its Retail & Commerce initiatives in Europe.
• The position is located in London.

Role

• Structure, draft, and negotiate high-volume commercial contracts ranging from simple statements of work to complex partnership and novel/strategic deals. Typical agreements include transactional agreements, consulting agreements, platform agreements, SaaS agreements, marketing and promotional campaign agreements;
• Align and collaborate across various business and legal teams, including with other Services legal team members and EUR regional counsels;
• Develop/Assist with and execute global initiatives to support the evolution of the Services legal team;
• Collaborate with team members on product development and go-to-market implementation;
• Strategic partner and trusted advisor to a demanding business unit; counseling the business on deal matters as well as general business matters; High level of interaction with business clients;
• Manage wide-ranging issues such as data usage/privacy, intellectual property, compliance, regulatory, and tax by partnering with subject matter experts in these areas and other stakeholder teams, and balancing these issues against reputational risk to ensure product constructs and commercial agreements are consistent with corporate strategy, internal policies and procedures and applicable laws and regulations; and
• Provide back-up support to other colleagues on the Services legal team as needed.

All About You

• Solid transactional training and experience (preferably from a highly reputable law firm); Must have strong drafting and negotiation skills to manage complex issues and deal structure.
• Ability to manage, perform and enjoy highly repeatable and high-volume work in addition to strategic and unique issues;
• Must be pragmatic, solutions-oriented, business-friendly, creative, thought provoker, and an advocate for the business and have a “let’s make it happen” attitude;
• Must have leadership skills in bringing different perspectives together and work through competing priorities;
• Must be able to work independently and collaboratively, including with our global colleagues, but also take direction from manager and other team members, as appropriate;
• Must multi-task effectively in an extremely fast-paced team environment with short turnaround times;
• Must have strong communication skills to interact with clients and colleagues;
• Must be a team player and willing to take on responsibilities and roles that support the team, region, department and the company;
• Must be interested in significant contact with the business clients on a daily basis with respect to transactional issues as well as other strategic issues that have a significant impact on Mastercard's operations, strategies and financial performance.

Please note that this job description is not exhaustive and the job holder may be required to undertake additional duties from time to time to ensure the smooth running of the D&S business.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;

• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.