Senior Legal Counsel

hace 3 días


Madrid, Madrid, España Swift A tiempo completo
About the Role

As a Senior Legal Counsel at Swift, you will play a critical role in supporting procurement activities with a strong focus on intellectual property, IT, and new technologies. You will provide sound legal advice and counsel to ensure compliance with legal requirements and drive business growth.

Key Responsibilities
  1. Legal Advice and Counsel: Plan and execute legal activities of large complexity to provide company-wide sound legal advice and counsel to support SWIFT activities and ensure compliance with legal requirements.
  2. Research and Analysis: Provide legal support in company's new projects by undertaking research on specific legal problems and issues, and offering opinions and counsel.
  3. Contract Management: Draft, review, and recommend company contracts, participate in negotiations, and recommend amendments to contracts worldwide for customers, suppliers, development projects, and network.
  4. Policy Development: Set standards for company contracts and draft, review, and recommend legal policies and procedures.
  5. Litigation Management: Coordinate and follow up worldwide litigation with management, staff, and lawyers to ensure best possible settlement, and negotiate claims with third parties to avoid litigation.
  6. Communication and Liaison: Liaise with management and staff, customers, suppliers, lawyers, public administrations, and other stakeholders.
  7. Administrative Tasks: Coordinate administrative tasks within the department and be an effective back-up for the manager and colleagues.
  8. Knowledge Management: Maintain and develop own understanding of evolutions in relevant areas of the law, including commercial and competition laws, licensing issues, and telecommunication matters, to identify potential impact on SWIFT operations.
  9. Team Leadership: Drive and assist less senior counsel in performing tasks, review work of outside counsels, and manage a risk area and control framework on a project basis.
Competency Profile
  1. Delivering Results: Decides on and pursues the best course of action to deliver results following in-depth analyses of relevant issues and conflicting factors, and after assessing foreseeable risks.
  2. Operational Excellence: Sets clear standards for quality of work, adheres to and encourages a continuous improvement mindset, and implements procedures, standards, and policies to ensure operational success.
  3. Knowledge Expansion: Continually extends specialist knowledge as a means of anticipating and preparing for changes in the business, and uses a variety of methods and opportunities to learn and to exchange knowledge.
  4. Business Understanding and Commercial Sense: Applies understanding of how different divisions contribute to meeting SWIFT's business objectives, understands market drivers of success, and encourages changes to improve offerings while optimising commercial performance.
  5. Customer Focus: Builds and maintains effective working relationships with a range of customers, actively listens to and translates complex needs into appropriate solutions, and remains sensitive to the complexities of the business and SWIFT's commitment to integrity in all relationships.
  6. Team Leadership: Encourages effective team working within and across the department, respects diversity, and recognises contributions from colleagues.
  7. Communication: Communicates business strategies and approaches in challenging circumstances, adjusts communication style to optimise effectiveness in a multi-lingual environment, and provides clarification of key corporate initiatives and messages.
What We Offer

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