Senior Corporate Counsel

You will provide legal support and guidance to our Sales teams, and work closely with our contract managers and sales support teams and will be part of the Elsevier Legal team reporting into the General Counsel EMEA APAC LA.Legal support has a strong focus on commercial transactions interacting directly with our customers.

You will also help to deliver training, projects and initiatives to our organization, acting as a trusted business partner.

• Responsibilities
• Providing support on transactional matters including legal advice, contract negotiation and drafting
• Provide best in practice professional legal services aligned with the strategic drivers of the business ensuring significant impact.
• Builds relationships with the aim to become the trusted business partner including stakeholder management
• Act as a role model in the team, actively endorsing team operating principles including on teamwork and collaboration, change, working in an international environment, and open and meaningful communication.
• Requirements
• Have substantial in-house legal experience (7 to 10 years+) and preferably also experience working for a law firm.
• Have experience working in an international environment.
• Have extensive experience working in the United States and / or with North American customers.
• Have excellent academic qualifications and substantial relevant experience in providing legal advice and support to businesses.
• Have a well-developed technical knowledge about relevant areas of law.

Could apply that technical expertise to practical matters.

Knowledge of IP, licensing including Software as a Service contracts, if possible

• Be accustomed to communicating complex legal and commercial issues clearly and concisely in a way that is readily understandable and can be acted upon by the business.
• Be a collaborative team player who demonstrates leadership qualities appropriate for a member of the Legal Department.
• Fluent in Spanish and English and if possible, Portuguese in both writing and speaking.
• Work in a way that works for you
• We promote a healthy work / life balance across the organization.

We offer an appealing working prospect for our people.

With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate.Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

• Working for you
• We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career.

These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer :

• Private Medical / Dental Plan
• Savings Fund
• Life Insurance
• Meal / Grocery Voucher
• About the Business
• A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals' advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society.

Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice.

At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world's grand challenges and a more sustainable future.

We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.

We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process.

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• USA Job Seekers :

RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions.Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop.

It defines us as a company.

Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.

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