In our pursuit of excellence within our Legal Department at Carnival UK, we're seeking an experienced commercial lawyer to join us as a Senior Legal Counsel. You'll bring your legal expertise to a complex, dynamic and commercially driven business, supporting strategic decision-making and business success.
Role Overview
Join our Legal Department and play a key role in supporting a leading global cruise business. This is a unique opportunity to work on a diverse portfolio of commercial legal matters, partnering with stakeholders across the organisation and gaining exposure to a breadth of work that is rarely found within a single in-house legal role.
Key accountabilities include:
- Providing commercial legal advice across both business-to-business and consumer-facing matters.
- Negotiating, drafting and managing a wide variety of commercial contracts.
- Supporting stakeholders across IT, procurement and other business functions to deliver commercially focused outcomes.
- Advising on a diverse range of legal issues while balancing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Required Qualifications and Skills:
- Qualified Solicitor with strong commercial law expertise.
- Proven experience drafting, negotiating and advising on commercial contracts.
- Broad commercial legal advisory experience, ideally gained in-house and/or within private practice.
- IT contracts experience would be highly beneficial.
About You
You thrive in a collaborative environment yet can work independently with a high degree of accuracy and accountability. You're someone who enjoys tackling complex commercial challenges and contributing to the success of a high-performing legal team. You are likely to have at least three years post qualification experience.
Personal Qualities:
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to perform effectively under pressure and manage competing priorities.
- Pragmatic and commercially focused approach to problem solving.
- Comfortable working across a broad and varied commercial legal remit.
Why Join Us?
Positioned within our internal structure from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President), this role is classified as a CUK06, offered as a full-time position, on a permanent basis, with hybrid working including up to two days from home.
Read our employee experience guide to learn more about life as a Carnival UK colleague here.
We offer a dynamic and inclusive workplace where your work makes a real impact. Beyond competitive salaries and benefits, here’s what we offer:
- Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
- Annual bonus
- Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme
- Employee Assistance and Wellbeing programmes
- Contributory Defined Contribution Pension scheme
- Company paid private medical and dental insurance and health assessment
- In-house Occupational Health help and access to digital GP
- Life Assurance
- Employee Shares Plan
Electric Car and Cycle to Work schemes.
Application Note:
Given the opportunities we provide, we encourage prompt applications. We are committed to finding the right blend of talent and passion, and our recruitment process may close earlier than advertised for roles with high applicant volumes.
Don't miss this chance to leverage your legal qualifications in a role where you can truly shine. Apply today and let’s explore how your skills and ambitions align with our opportunities!
Recruitment Journey
For more information on your recruitment journey, please visit our Candidate Journey Map.
Any offer of employment for this role will be conditional upon the satisfactory completion of a Basic DBS check. A criminal record will not automatically bar you from employment; any information disclosed will be considered fairly and proportionately in light of the responsibilities of the role.
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Skills Required
- Qualified Solicitor with strong commercial law expertise
- Proven experience drafting, negotiating and advising on commercial contracts
- Broad commercial legal advisory experience
- Experience gained in-house and/or within private practice
- IT contracts experience
- At least three years post-qualification experience
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills
- Ability to perform effectively under pressure and manage competing priorities
- Pragmatic and commercially focused approach to problem solving
What We Do
CCL Industries Inc. employs approximately 26,000 people operating 213 production facilities in 43 countries with corporate offices in Toronto, Canada, and Framingham, Massachusetts. CCL is the world’s largest converter of pressure sensitive and specialty extruded film materials for a wide range of decorative, instructional, functional and security applications for government institutions and large global customers in the consumer packaging, healthcare & chemicals, consumer electronic device and automotive markets. Extruded & laminated plastic tubes, aluminum aerosols & specialty bottles, folded instructional leaflets, precision decorated & die cut components, electronic displays, polymer bank note substrate and other complementary products and services are sold in parallel to specific end-use markets. Avery is the world’s largest supplier of labels, specialty converted media and software solutions for short-run digital printing applications for businesses and consumers available alongside complementary products sold through distributors, mass market stores and e-commerce retailers. Checkpoint is a leading developer of RF and RFID based technology systems for loss prevention and inventory management applications, including labeling and tagging solutions, for the retail and apparel industries worldwide. Innovia is a leading global producer of specialty, high-performance, multi-layer, surface-engineered films for label, packaging and security applications. The Company is partly backward integrated into materials science with capabilities in polymer extrusion, adhesive development, coating & lamination, surface engineering and metallurgy, deployed as needed across the four business segments.
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