Are you excited to support corporate legal departments and help them succeed?

Do you want to use your legal background in an exciting alternative legal career?

About our Team

We work within the Legal Department which consist of lawyers, paralegals, and specialists strongly committed to supporting the professional growth and career development of our team.

About the Role

Part of a Regional team, providing legal support and guidance focused on commercial transactions, and reporting into the General Counsel.

Responsibilities

• Providing support on transactional matters including legal advice, contract negotiation and drafting;

• Providing 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

• Endorsing team operating principles including on teamwork and collaboration, change, working in an international environment, and open and meaningful communication.

Requirements

• Have Legal experience in a law firm or in house.

• Have experience working in an international environment.

• 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. Have the ability to apply that technical expertise to practical matters.

• Be accustomed to communicating complex legal and commercial issues clearly and concisely, and can be acted upon by the business.

• Be proficient in Spanish.

• Be proficient in Portuguese. (desiderable)

• Knowledge of licensing including Software as a service contracts. (desiderable)

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. 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 responsibilities and your long-term goals.

• 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.

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RELX is a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries.

We help scientists make new discoveries, lawyers win cases, doctors save lives and insurance companies offer customers lower prices. We save taxpayers and consumers money by preventing fraud and help executives forge commercial relationships with their clients.

In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.