Counsel

Overview

Burberry believes creativity opens spaces and aims to unlock imagination to push boundaries for our people, customers and communities. We strive to provide an environment for creative minds from diverse backgrounds to thrive and to be a force for good, creating sustainable luxury and driving industry change.

We are a values-driven brand committed to equality and inclusive hiring practices.

Job purpose

To provide high quality, commercially focused, value-added legal advice to support the execution of key business strategies globally.

Responsibilities

• Providing day-to-day legal support to the business on projects, including seeking advice in local jurisdictions where appropriate, and delivering GDPR/PECR and other data protection advice
• Supporting completion of data privacy impact assessments (DPIAs) and legitimate interest assessments (LIAs) and drafting/updating privacy policies and consent language
• Reviewing, negotiating, drafting and advising on data protection issues and data protection clauses in commercial agreements including IT, services and marketing agreements
• Obtaining and coordinating local law advice on global data protection matters and advising the business accordingly
• Advising on GDPR-related and PECR-related matters including security breach reporting, data subject rights requests, data transfers, direct marketing, cookies compliance, use of AI, data retention and GDPR compliance in business-as-usual projects

Personal profile

• Closely collaborate with partners across the business
• Strong academic credentials essential
• Strong experience in data protection (specifically GDPR) essential
• In-house experience preferable
• Knowledge of languages and/or cross-border matters an advantage

Qualifications

• Qualified solicitor with 1-3 PQE from a major firm
• Specialised in data protection law upon qualification with strong knowledge of the GDPR and awareness of other key data protection laws globally
• Ability to operate with minimal supervision and in direct contact with internal clients and external partners/vendors
• Experience in cross-border matters involving working with foreign lawyers is an advantage

Burberry is an Equal Opportunities Employer and recruits purely on the basis of skills and experience.

Location: England, United Kingdom

Education level: None
Work experience: 5-7 years