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An established industry player is seeking a Senior Commercial Legal Counsel to join their dynamic Legal Team. This role involves advising on a variety of commercial and technology contracts, ensuring compliance with legal standards while fostering positive relationships across teams. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in commercial law, particularly within the financial services sector. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the development of a world-class payments operation, making a significant impact on the company's strategic objectives. Join a collaborative environment where your expertise will help shape the future of travel payments.
Company Intro
Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) is the world's leading provider of online travel and related services, provided to consumers and local partners in more than 220 countries and territories through five primary consumer-facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK, and OpenTable. The mission of Booking Holdings is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. For more information, visit BookingHoldings.com and follow us on X (formerly known as Twitter) @BookingHoldings.
Booking Holdings Financial Services (hereinafter “BHFS”) provides financial services in the form of payment services and e-money products across all the brands. BHFS is committed to conducting its business in compliance with applicable laws, regulations and guidelines, with integrity and to the highest ethical standards.
Job Summary
BHFS is looking for an experienced lawyer to join our Legal Team as Senior Commercial Legal Counsel, reporting to the Legal Director. The successful candidate will advise on a range of commercial and technology contracts related to our expanding payments and financial services activities, act as a critical partner and trusted advisor to our business, and help to develop our commercial contracts infrastructure and strategy. This is a great opportunity for a collaborative, agile and creative lawyer to help develop, launch, and enable our mission to deliver a world-class payments operation to support our global brands.
The selected candidate will have the chance to witness first-hand the investment in digital technology that helps take the friction out of travel and paying for travel. As you do so, you will advise on a range of legal questions related to our commercial strategy, demonstrating your familiarity with global financial services, regulatory contexts, and the industry commercial considerations that enable payment services at this scale, and define the future of the company.
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Booking Holdings Financial Services International Ltd. is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are committed to treating all employees equally, regardless of gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religious belief, age, disability, race or membership of the traveler community. We believe embracing equality and diversity in the workplace benefits not just our organisation but also individual employees, departments and our customers.
This policy extends to every phase of the employment process including, but not limited to, recruitment, selection, placement, transfer, training and development, position elimination, restructure, promotion, compensation, benefits, layoffs, termination, and all other conditions or privileges of employment. Booking Holdings Financial Services International Ltd is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.