VodafoneThree - Senior Legal Counsel

Location:

Farnborough/Newbury/Bristol + Hybrid.

Salary:
Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits.

Working Hours:

Full time 37.5 hours per week – Monday to Friday.

Security Clearance:
This position requires you to hold UK Developed Vetting (DV) clearance.

• Strategic Compliance Leadership:
  Provide leadership for legal and compliance matters across VBSE, acting as a principal advisor to senior executives and key stakeholders on VBSE and wider business issues.
• High Quality Legal Advice:
  Lead and oversee the delivery of pragmatic, solution oriented legal advice aligned to VBSE business objectives.
• Internal Stakeholder Management:
  Build strong, collaborative relationships across legal, commercial, finance, security, compliance, technical and regulatory teams, ensuring timely and business aligned legal input and early engagement to support compliant delivery of VBSE objectives.
• Risk Assessment and Assurance:
  Identify, assess and mitigate legal risks across VBSE, ensuring compliance with applicable legislation, standards and frameworks, and embedding appropriate controls to protect brand integrity and customer trust.
• Governance and Continuous Improvement:
  Embed effective legal governance across VBSE, provide training and guidance to business teams, and champion continuous improvement to enhance legal efficiency, self service and best practice adoption.
• External Stakeholder Management:
  Develop and maintain strategic relationships with regulators, government bodies, industry forums and external legal advisers, representing Vodafone Three on VBSE and security/government matters and influencing outcomes aligned with business objectives.
• Horizon Scanning:
  Monitor and advise on regulatory and legislative developments impacting VBSE, identifying risks and opportunities, and working with Government Affairs on consultations, lobbying and legislative change.
• People Development and Culture:
  Support the development of senior and junior legal team members, contribute to the integration of legacy Vodafone and Three teams through a “best of both” approach, and foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, inclusion and continuous improvement aligned to business priorities.

• Legal Expertise:
  Senior qualified lawyer with significant post qualification experience within a leading telecoms, technology, or similarly regulated environment, bringing extensive commercial and regulatory expertise.
• Security Clearance:
  Holds, or is willing and eligible to obtain, Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance.
• Industry Knowledge:
  Deep understanding of the government, national security, and/or technology and telecoms sectors, with strong awareness of legal and regulatory trends impacting the telecoms industry.
• Risk Management:
  
  Proven ability to manage legal risk proportionately, balancing mitigation with commercial objectives to support growth while delivering positive consumer outcomes. Experienced in driving process and technology improvements to enhance efficiency in legal service delivery.
• Commercial Acumen:
  Applies sound commercial judgement to enable strategic decision making, effectively balancing legal risk with business opportunity and incorporating the voice of the customer. Leverages deep commercial insight to add value and enrich business decisions.
• Stakeholder and External Engagement:
  Highly skilled in stakeholder management and negotiation, influencing senior internal leaders and engaging effectively with external parties including regulators, strategic suppliers, and industry forums to build trusted, aligned relationships.
• Analytical Insight and Communication:
  Provides advanced legal analysis on complex issues, extracting critical insights to develop pragmatic solutions. Communicates advice clearly and precisely, tailoring messages to diverse audiences to support confident decision making.
• Delivery:
  Experienced in enabling the consistent delivery of high quality legal services, operating as a trusted business partner and adviser across the organisation.

We care about our people’s success by offering great pay, bonuses, up to 28 days off plus bank holidays, and paid time for charity work. You can personalise our benefits for you and your family, like discounts, vouchers, a pension plan and loads more. We help with your career through our amazing learning tools and top‑notch parental leave policies.

We are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and all offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet the regulators standards.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, a sign language interpreter, or assistive technology, please refer to the Accessibility section of our Careers website for guidance.