VodafoneThree - Legal Counsel

Job Details

• Location: London + Hybrid
• Salary: Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits
• Working hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday

What you'll do

• Provide clear, pragmatic legal advice across a range of projects helping draft and negotiate contracts, supporting bids and tenders, and ensuring alignment with Vodafone Business's growth, revenue, and transformation goals while maintaining compliance and protecting the business from legal and regulatory risks.
• Partner with Sales, Commercial, Finance, Product, and Delivery teams to offer timely, commercially focused advice across the Vodafone Three organisation, encouraging collaboration and ensuring risks are well managed.
• Identify and assess legal risks, using structured frameworks to reduce exposure to financial, regulatory, or reputational issues, and proactively help the business stay ahead of potential problems.
• Contribute to training and share legal know how across the business, while looking for ways to streamline processes, drive efficiency through simplification, automation and enabling self serve where possible.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with external parties, such as customers, suppliers, external lawyers and partners, to support Vodafone Three's commercial objectives.
• Stay up to date with legal and regulatory changes, sharing insights with the wider team and identifying opportunities to improve or adapt.

Who you are

• Qualified lawyer with solid experience in a leading telecoms company.
• Deep understanding of the tech and telecoms world and key legal trends shaping it.
• Ownership mindset: takes initiative, drives work forward and seeks input when needed.
• Risk savvy: balances legal risk with business growth and embraces process improvement and technology.
• Commercially minded: weighs legal risk against business opportunities to support smart, strategic decisions.
• Relationship builder: influences stakeholders, negotiates confidently both internally and externally.
• Clear thinker and communicator: simplifies complex issues, extracts key insights and explains them so others can make confident decisions.
• Continuously developing: actively seeks feedback, adopts stretch opportunities and commits to ongoing learning.
• Collaborative team player: shares ideas, information and supports colleagues to achieve shared goals.

Inclusion

Everyone's experience is unique. If you don't meet every requirement exactly, we still encourage you to apply - our recruitment team can help identify where your skills fit.

What we offer

• Excellent base salary, performance bonus and Vodafone benefits.
• Up to 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and paid time for charity work.
• Personalised benefits such as discounts, vouchers and a pension plan.
• Career development through learning tools and parental leave policies.

Need to Know

We are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and all offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet regulator standards. Reasonable adjustments for accessibility are available - please refer to our careers website for guidance.