Legal London, England
Job description
Come join us!
The Legal and Compliance Team at MVF is responsible for all legal, regulatory and compliance matters globally, including the UK, Europe, US, and other jurisdictions. The team supports all departments, and all levels of the business, with a broad range of work including, but is not necessarily limited to; commercial contracts, company secretarial, intellectual property, marketing and advertising, data protection & privacy, and financial services/regulated products.
This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic team and be a key contributor to not only the team, but to the wider business. We work across all of MVF, building strong relationships with internal clients on a broad range of multi-jurisdictional work. We help MVF to achieve its vision by providing sound commercial advice on all aspects of growth, from optimising internal processes and training the business, to entering new markets and adapting to the ever-changing legal landscape. In our team, there isn't a single area of the business that you're not exposed to. You'll have lots of opportunities to tackle things independently whilst being part of a collegiate and supportive team!
What we're offering you
- Lots of room for growth and stretch assignments
- £1000 per year to spend on professional development
- Hybrid working (3 days in the office and 2 days remote per week)
- Life Insurance to protect your loved ones
- Defined Contribution Pension and salary sacrifice scheme
- Flexible working hours
- Be Well: Our award winning wellbeing and mental health programme to support all MVFers and their families
- Family Forward support for our MVF parents and their mini-mes
- Free breakfast when in the office
- Company off-sites and holiday incentives (Ibiza is our usual choice of destination!)
- A wide range of free health clubs including yoga, pilates, football, book club, boxing, personal training, Jiu Jutsu and choir - we also run some of these remotely so anyone can get involved!
What you'll be doing
- Our clients - leading on client onboarding: drafting, reviewing & negotiating client contracts & maintaining precedents and our contract management system.
- Our partners - leading on partner onboarding: drafting, reviewing & negotiating partnership contracts; maintaining precedents.
- Our suppliers - leading on supplier onboarding: drafting, reviewing & negotiating supplier contracts, in particular SaaS agreements covering personal data.
- Data protection/privacy - identifying & advising the business on a broad range of data topics including customer data handling in new markets, new uses of data by us & our marketing partners, testing new types of data analysis & advising on how data laws influence the design of our tech infrastructure.
- Marketing - advising the business on our extensive marketing activity, including reviewing our ad copy, creating marketing guardrails, and delivering training to our creative teams on best practice.
- Intellectual property - advising the business on use of both MVF proprietary & third-party IP including delivering training & reviewing trademark usage.
- International - advising the business on our cross-border matters, which span all of our activity e.g. contracts, marketing & data handling (with a focus on the US, UK & EMEA).
- New markets/growth areas/regulatory - undertaking legal research, instructing external counsel & translating it for MVF on key areas for the business including our US expansion.
- Disputes - handling disputes across all key areas including data handling, marketing, IP & commercial contracts.
- Corporate - supporting with corporate activities (e.g. preparing minutes, Companies House filings).
- Compliance - supporting the Head of Compliance with aspects of MVF's compliance and Business Conduct programme
- General - identifying & managing legal risks within the business, & leading in advising the business, as the key legal stakeholder/point of contact on a broad range of commercial matters spanning personal data usage, marketing, tech & IP.
- Internal governance - maintaining our standard contracts & other documentation including privacy policies.
About you/Requirements for the role
- At least 1-3 years of general in-house legal experience
- Must have commercial contract experience, ideally cross-border
- Must have data privacy and/or marketing experience
- Ideally will have compliance experience
- Positive, enthusiastic and self-motivated, with the ability to work independently, as well as within teams.
- Excellent rapport & relationship building skills with internal and external stakeholders.
- A team player who works for the success of the wider Legal Team and MVF, and is eager to share their knowledge and network.
- Commercially & solutions-focussed with an interest in data privacy and the Tech/Digital Marketing space.
About MVF
MVF is an award-winning customer generation business supplying some of the world's leading brands with high volumes of new customers in over 45 countries. In 2020 we were ranked 1st in the UK in the Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For List, and even won a special award for our commitment to our people's learning and development.
We help people navigate complex buying decisions, driving more sales globally than anyone else. For our customers, this means they can trust our brands again and again to help them buy from suitable clients. For our clients, this means they rely on us to bring them unrivalled numbers of new customers who are prepared and ready to buy.
We want you to be a part of our success!
If this role sounds like something you would be interested in please apply today.
DEI at MVF
At MVF, we want to help others succeed.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are the foundation for MVF to build, promote and sustain a culture of trust, safety, growth and belonging where everyone can thrive. Our DEI guiding principles underpin how we build our teams, develop our talent, provide a fair working environment and create an ambitious company that reflects the diversity of our employees, customers, clients and partners, globally.
At MVF, we encourage the formation of employee led networks in order to bring employees with a shared interest together to advance diversity, equity and inclusion at MVF, whether as a member of a diverse community, or as an ally. We currently have three networks: LEEP (Lived Experience of Ethnic People), LGBTQ+ and Womens Network who all provide support, raise awareness, advance MVF's DEI approach, commitments and objectives, develop communication, learning programmes and initiatives that lead to greater inclusion and belonging for all MVFers.
We're committed to providing adjustments to those who may need them during the recruitment process. If you consider yourself someone who may need adjustments, please let your contact in the Talent Team know.
We are diverse by nature, but inclusive by choice.
