Senior Legal Counsel

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Start date: 25th of June.

Location: Hybrid (2 days a week in London) with travel to Milton Keynes once a month.

Ready for your next challenge in a dynamic, fast-paced business where no two days are the same?

We're looking for a Senior Legal Counsel to join us on a 12-month fixed-term contract for maternity cover. In this role, you'll be at the heart of our legal function, advising across a wide range of legal matters that impact our products, services, and day-to-day operations.

Whether you're reviewing customer contracts, guiding new product launches, or helping shape key business-wide frameworks, you'll play a pivotal role in helping us operate smoothly and confidently. You'll be part of a collaborative, forward-thinking team that values curiosity, pragmatism, and a hands-on approach.

What you'll be doing

• Commercial Contract Management: Draft, review and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements, including technology, IT, marketing, partnerships, and customer contracts, ensuring legal and commercial alignment.
• Legal Support for Business Initiatives: Provide practical, business-focused legal advice to stakeholders across the business to support new product launches, strategic partnerships, and other commercial initiatives.
• Supplier & Procurement Advisory: Work closely with procurement, data protection, and information security colleagues to review and advise on third-party supplier agreements and mitigate associated legal risks.
• Template & Process Ownership: Develop and maintain standard contract templates, legal processes and customer guidelines to support operational efficiency, legal compliance and consistency.
• Legal Risk Management: Identify and assess legal risks across the business, helping to design and implement policies, procedures, and frameworks that proactively manage and mitigate risk.
• Business-Wide Legal Advice: Advise on a broad spectrum of legal topics, exercising sound judgment and balancing commercial priorities with legal requirements.
• Non-Litigious Problem Solving: Collaborate with teams to resolve challenges in a practical, business-friendly way without the need for litigation.
• Compliance Monitoring: Keep on top of relevant legal and regulatory developments, supporting the business in adapting policies and practices as needed.
• Legal Reporting: Produce monthly Legal Management Information (MI) reports to support data-led decision-making and legal oversight.
• Brand & IP Support: Contribute to the implementation of a brand protection strategy, helping to safeguard the company's intellectual property.
• Legal Project Leadership: Lead on key legal projects aligned with wider business goals, ensuring timely and effective delivery.
• Team Collaboration & Support: Provide oversight, support, and mentoring to other members of the legal team, including Legal Counsel, trainees and paralegals.

Who you are

• Experienced Commercial Lawyer: You bring at least 5 years' experience, with a strong commercial law background and exposure to a range of legal topics in a business setting.
• In-House & Private Practice Blend: You've ideally worked both in-house (especially in a lean team) and at a reputable private practice firm, giving you a rounded legal perspective.
• Pragmatic & Business-Focused: You understand how to balance legal risk with commercial realities and can give clear, actionable advice to non-legal colleagues.
• Exceptional Drafting & Negotiation Skills: You're confident in your ability to structure, review, and negotiate contracts that support business goals while mitigating risk.
• Highly Organised: You're able to juggle a busy workload, prioritise effectively and stay calm under pressure in a fast-moving environment.
• Team-Oriented with Leadership Qualities: You enjoy collaborating with others, but are also capable of taking the lead and working independently when needed.
• Strong Communicator: You can simplify complex legal concepts and communicate them clearly and confidently to a variety of audiences.
• Curious, Proactive & Adaptable: You're always looking for smarter ways to work, willing to step in where needed, and comfortable in a role that evolves.

What's in it for you

• People are the foundation of Rightmove - we'll help you build a career on it.
• Competitive compensation package.
• Cash plan for dental, optical, and physio treatments.
• Private Medical Insurance, Pension and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan.
• 27 days holiday plus two (paid) volunteering days a year to give back, and holiday buy schemes.
• Hybrid working pattern with 2 days in the office (either Milton Keynes or London).
• Contributory stakeholder pension.
• Life assurance at 4x your basic salary to a spouse, family member other nominated person in your life.
• Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption, and fertility.
• Travel Loan, Bike to Work scheme, Rental Deposit Loan.
• Charitable contributions through Payroll Giving and donation matching.
• Access deals and discounts on things like travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema discounts, and more.

About Rightmove

Our vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust, and belief to make it happen.

We're home to the UK's largest choice of properties and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what's on the market.

Despite this growth, we've remained a friendly, supportive place to work, with employee #1 still working here! We've done this by placing the Rightmove How's at the heart of everything we do. These are the essential values that reflect our culture and include:

• Be approachable and appreciate what others do
• Make complex things as simple as possible
• Build great teams, because Rightmove is people
• Drive improvement, we can always be better
• Share early, honestly, and often

We believe in careers that open doors and help our team develop by providing an open and inclusive work environment, offering ongoing training opportunities, and supporting charity fundraising events. And with 82% of Rightmovers saying we're a great place to work, we're clearly doing something right!

If all of this has caught your eye, you may well be a Rightmover in the making!

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Rightmove will never discriminate based on age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage / civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity or sexual orientation.