Junior Legal Counsel

Are you…
Interested in working for an international and diverse company?
Interested in developing your legal career in a leading Printing, Coding and Marking industry?
Looking to use your curiosity, tech affinity, and problem-solving skills?
Looking for a friendly fun, friendly and supporting team?
If so, read on!
It’s likely you have purchased or used a product touched by Videojet Technologies this week. From freshness dating to track and trace coding, our technologies help ensure products sold across the globe are authentic and safe for consumers to use in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and industrial marketplaces.
We recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent. Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is a key to innovation and excellence. Therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions.
As the Junior Legal Counsel you are responsible for drafting, reviewing and negotiating a wide variety of commercial agreements. Critical to this role is the ability to scope the legal needs of the business and install efficient processes with minimal disruption. This is a hands-on role where both tactical execution and longer-term strategy are important. This is a hybrid role, and can be located in our offices near Cambridge or Nottingham.
In this role, in a typical day you will:

• Gain a solid understanding of the various businesses in order to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate business goals and minimize any potential challenges and risks for our business;
• Implement and drive standard processes for commercial contracts and legal work;
• Negotiate, strategize, document, and approve commercial transactions, contracts, and other legal arrangements;
• Retain a steady positive and professional attitude and an ability to confidently discuss contract terms and legal issues with internal stakeholders, customers, and suppliers;
• Build collaborative and trustful relationships with internal stakeholders and within the legal team;
• Assist the business with proactive, operational, and commercial advice to ensure a clear contracting process and successful relationships with suppliers and customers;
• Deliver training and advice to drive best practices for legal processes, compliance, and risk management; and
• Identify and execute on opportunities for continuous improvement, efficiency in providing legal services and enabling legal operations for the Marking and Coding companies
  

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Prior experience or exposure working within a matrixed organisation, preferably in a multinational company;
• A law degree from a European or UK law school;
• Knowledge of commercial law, negotiations, competition law and compliance is required;
• Experience in‐house helpful, but not essential;
• Knowledge and expertise in employment law and regulatory matters is desired;
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed;
• Second language proficiency would be desired (especially Italian and / or Polish);
• Technical affinity; and
• Legal research skills.
  

At Videojet Technologies, a Veralto Company, safeguarding food, medicine, and essentials everyone, everywhere has a right to know that the food, medicines, and packaged goods they rely on are safe. This is where Videojet Technologies, a global leader in product identification, provides innovative coding and marking solutions that helps customers ensure product safety and improve their productivity.
Videojet is proud to be a Product Quality & Innovation company in Veralto (NYSE: VLTO). Imagine a world where everyone has access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. That is the tomorrow Veralto is creating today. Veralto is a $5B global leader in essential technology solutions made up of over 16,000 associates across our Water Quality and Product Identification segments all united by a powerful purpose: Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources.
At Veralto, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.
If you’ve ever wondered what’s within you, there’s no better time to find out.