Deputy General Counsel, Partnerships

Just Eat Takeaway.Com; Amsterdam; On-site; GBP 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.Com in London is seeking a Deputy General Counsel for Partnerships to lead the global legal strategy for partner arrangements and B2B growth. You will empower senior leadership, drive high-value deals, and safeguard commercial relationships across markets.

You will build scalable templates, negotiation guardrails, and align partner-facing legal strategy with central functions, leading a high-performing Partnerships team in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading global commercial contract strategies for partnerships.
• Ability to balance risk with commercial velocity across markets.
• Proven guidance to senior stakeholders on complex deal structures.

Responsibilities

• Own global legal strategy for strategic commercial arrangements and partnerships.
• Lead contract strategy, risk allocation, and negotiation frameworks for major deals.
• Architect enterprise approach for partnership disputes and non-standard structures.
• Lead high-value business development initiatives and integrations.
• Build scalable legal infrastructure including templates and approval processes.

Skills

International commercial contracts

Strategic negotiations

Risk management

Leadership of legal teams

Job description

We’re a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience. Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

As our Deputy General Counsel - Partnerships, you will lead our global legal strategy for partner arrangements, ecosystem expansion, and B2B growth. Embedded in the Legal department, you will empower senior leadership to lead with confidence, deliver high-value strategic deals, and care for our global commercial relationships. In this role, you will shape enterprise risk principles, drive commercial velocity, and build a high-performing legal team in a fast-paced environment.

Location: This role can be based in Amsterdam, London, or Berlin. Reporting to: General Counsel

These are some of the key components to the position:

• Own JET's global legal strategy for strategic commercial arrangements, partner ecosystems, and corporate customer-facing matters.
• Serve as the strategic voice on contract strategy, risk allocation, and negotiation frameworks for major commercial agreements.
• Architect the enterprise approach for partnership disputes, contract escalations, and non-standard deal structures.
• Lead legal strategy for major business development initiatives, integrations, and high-value strategic partnerships.
• Build scalable central legal infrastructure, including templates, negotiation guardrails, and approval processes across markets.
• Define and align partner-facing legal strategy across central functions and regional markets to ensure consistent execution.
• Build and lead a high-performing Partnerships legal team, fostering a culture of commercial impact and continuous development.

What will you bring to the team?

• Deep expertise in international commercial contracts, strategic negotiations, and shaping commercial legal strategy at scale.
• Proven ability to build pragmatic, scalable legal solutions for complex partnerships while balancing risk and commercial velocity.
• Thoughtful judgement on commercial risk, with the confidence to establish risk principles and guide senior stakeholders.
• Exceptional collaboration skills to shape negotiation strategy and align commercial and central teams across matrixed environments.
• Demonstrated success in building central legal infrastructure, including templates and approval architectures, to drive speed.
• Leadership capability to mentor, elevate, and support a team handling high-volume, strategic workloads.
• Strategic acumen supporting complex corporate development, integrations, and transaction coordination frameworks.

At JET, this is how we play

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.

Being the best at what we do isn’t just about delivering on our strategy. It's a competition for something incredibly valuable – our customers' choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they're picking a side.

At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers’ loyalty, again and again.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, we’re building a customer-first culture which enables us to stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

Deputy General Counsel, Partnerships London