Description:
In this role, you will ensure that all consumer communications, offers, campaigns, and brand activities comply with legal and regulatory requirements, with a particular focus on consumer protection, telecoms regulation, advertising standards, and intellectual property management.
You will work collaboratively with cross functional stakeholders to enable innovative and commercially compelling consumer propositions while safeguarding the company’s reputation and maintaining robust legal and regulatory compliance.
What else it involves:
The Senior Legal Counsel will:
- Provide clear, timely, commercially‑focused legal advice on consumer marketing campaigns, advertising, digital media, customer communications, promotions, sponsorships, and endorsements.
- Ensure compliance with consumer protection laws (including unfair commercial practices, consumer rights, e‑commerce and distance selling rules) and advertising/ASA Codes relevant to telecoms offerings.
- Draft, negotiate, and advise on a wide range of commercial agreements supporting the consumer and marketing ecosystem.
- Review and draft consumer‑facing terms, promotional T&Cs, offer mechanics, and campaign claims to ensure accuracy, fairness, and regulatory compliance.
- Manage and protect Three Ireland’s IP portfolio, including trademarks, copyright, content licences, and brand assets across campaigns and media.
- Advise on media partnerships, content licensing, creative production, and agency arrangements to ensure IP integrity and brand protection.
- Advise on regulatory obligations under communications and telecoms laws as they relate to consumer services, pricing, transparency, switching, contract modifications, and service quality.
- Support the interpretation and implementation of ComReg requirements, decisions, codes, and guidelines that affect consumer products and communications.
- Partner with the Regulatory and the Compliance teams to educate the business on regulatory duties and ensure internal controls effectively manage regulatory and legal risk
- Manage and report legal matters in accordance with Three Ireland and HWL polices (including the HWL Legal Policy and Company Secretarial Policy) so that the business operates in accordance with company and shareholder corporate governance requirements and maintains and builds shareholder confidence;
- Ensure that legal proceedings involving or relating to the business are proactively and professionally managed in order that the interests of the business, legal risk and reputation of the business is protected;
- Instruct and manage external lawyers where required, including managing legal budget and ensuring cost-effective and targeted advice.
The Skills were looking for:
Must Have
- Minimum 7 years’ post-qualification experience in commercial, regulatory, consumer, media, or technology law.:
Strong experience advising on:
- negotiating and drafting a range of complex commercial/marketing/media/technology/IP contracts,
- consumer protection laws and end-user facing terms and conditions in a regulated sector (including e-commerce, data protection and privacy regulations),
- Advertising, marketing, media, brand, and promotional compliance;
- Advising on day to day competition law issues at it applies to the business;
- Intellectual property (copyright, trade marks, licensing).