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Competition Lawyer London, England

Openreach

Full Time London, England 52000 - 86394 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

Competition Lawyer

Job Req ID: 12732

Posting Date: 14-Mar-2023

Function: Legal and Governance

Location: Judd Street, London, United Kingdom

Salary: Competitive

Recruiter: Liam Bull

Hiring Manager: Luke Macleod

Career Grade: D

Internal Closing Date: 24/03/2023

About Openreach

Openreach Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of BT Group. We look after the copper wires and fibre cables that connect homes and businesses to phone and broadband. Our customers are the 650+ communications providers who sell phone and broadband services to these households and businesses.

Why this job matters

Openreach Limited runs the nation’s digital network. We play a key role in British society, helping homes, schools, hospitals, broadcasters, government, businesses and more connect to the world. We're a wholly owned subsidiary of BT Group, and our customers are the 640+ communications providers who sell phone, broadband and Ethernet services to homes and businesses.

And we’re on a mission - to make the country’s digital network services faster, better and more affordable. We’re building ultrafast Fibre to the Premises, having reached over 5m UK premises so far, and we have an ambition to reach 25 million premises by December 2026. Our people are experienced, resourceful and innovative, working on vital projects that help support the nation at work, in learning, on the move, at rest, at play, in emergencies and much more.

Openreach is Britain’s digital network business. We’re a wholly owned and independently governed subsidiary of the BT Group. Openreach remains an important part of BT but being more independent and treating customers equally is how Openreach contributes to the success of the Group.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Competition Lawyer to join our team on a permanent basis with hybrid onsite working. This role sits within the Competition and Regulatory Legal Team in the Legal Risk and Equivalence (LRE) business unit in Openreach. In this role you’ll be providing risk-savvy and solutions focussed competition and regulatory law advice in the UK on a range of propositions. You’ll be partnering with our regulatory affairs team and work with business colleagues to achieve Openreach’s commercial and strategic objectives.

So if you’d like to be a part of an exciting organisation that’s making a real difference, why not join us today?

What you'll be doing

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Competition & Regulatory Law Team in Openreach.
You will report to a Senior Lawyer in the Competition and Regulatory Law Team, but are also a trusted advisor to the Legal Director of the team. You will establish excellent working relationships with senior stakeholders across business divisions regarding legal and regulatory requirements.
As a developing expert in the field of EU & UK Competition & Regulatory law, you will provide legal advice on Openreach’s competition law and regulatory law issues.
You will work on a variety of legal issues including advisory and contentious Chapter 1 and 2 matters, market studies and investigations, M&A, significant market power (SMP) regulation; regulatory consultations, procurement and State aid. You will work on regulatory and competition investigations and market reviews, advise on legal issues around developing new products and services, and help support compliance activities.
You will independently advise and recommend decisions on low–medium complexity competition and regulatory matters. You will work with senior lawyers and the Legal Director on more complex matters.
You will support, and in some cases lead, litigation on regulatory and competition matters and affirmative recovery actions. You will also advise business colleagues about litigation and dispute risks on day-to-day matters. You will design and deliver training, education and awareness activities for colleagues in the business.
You will proactively work to ensure that the Competition and Regulatory Law Team is a brilliant in-house team, working seamlessly with colleagues across legal, regulatory teams and beyond in BT.

The skills you'll need

Qualified Lawyer, Solicitor or Barrister
In-house experience beneficial but not essential
You have excellent oral and written communication skills. Your advice is written in plain English, is succinct, commercial and pragmatic. You tailor your advice to the client reflecting their priorities and risk. You are able to translate complex legal statements into easily understandable advice for internal stakeholders at different levels of seniority.
You have (or are prepared to acquire) a clear understanding of relevant commercial drivers, risk and customer management.
You are curious as to the facts and broader considerations of a matter and are able to test/challenge current legal thinking and formulate creative strategic advice and disputes strategies.
You are prepared to acquire the required in-depth knowledge of relevant Openreach products, markets, processes and governance (including Commitments).
You will seek to build a good understanding of relevant relationships, in order to advise and influence internal as well as external stakeholders (e.g.customers, suppliers, complainants, strategic partners, competition authorities and regulators) in areas of competition and regulatory law.
You work efficiently as part of a multi-disciplinary teams of specialists (e.g. regulatory, economic, product, finance and, where relevant, external counsel) in complex matters, whilst also contributing to a supportive, creative and tolerant environment within the Competition and Regulatory Law Team itself

Benefits

25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) – Option to purchase 5 extra days
Hybrid/flexible working
10% on target bonus
Pension scheme – 5% own, 10% BT contribution
Flexible benefits: cycle to work, healthcare, etc.
Discounted BT products – BT Broadband, BT TV/BT Sport and also discounted EE mobile offers

About Openreach
We employ more than 35,091 people who install, support and maintain the wiring, fibres and connections which link tens of millions of homes and businesses in the UK to our customers’ networks..

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