About us

SaleCycle powers campaigns for some of the world’s most recognisable brands. We help 500+ enterprise-level clients worldwide to optimise their online conversions through traffic retention and abandoned sales recovery.

You’ll find our HQ in the North East of England, which was founded in 2010. Since then, we’ve been on a very exciting growth journey, and we also have employees in France and APAC. 

We use the latest tech and innovation to shape our products and deliver results. All of this wouldn’t be possible without our people - that’s why they’re at the heart of everything we do.

Role Summary

We are looking for a highly motivated, knowledgeable and efficient individual to oversee all legal aspects of our business. The legal workload is predominantly contract and data privacy for our global business, however workload can touch any area of law relevant to our company. You will act as the single point of contact for legal matters internally, and be responsible for the efficient utilisation of any third party legal expertise. Success in this role will result in a legal workload that is handled swiftly, with improved outcomes and a lower total cost of ownership.

This is a fantastic opportunity for the successful candidate to help shape how the company handles legal matters.

Your responsibilities

Reporting to the Chief Finance Officer, you will be responsible for owning the legal touchpoints for the business, and for applying your time most efficiently to meet that need. You will:

• Review the legal landscape for our business and develop, communicate, implement and own an effective support model for our legal workload, educating and supporting anyone touching that workload;
• Develop expertise and understanding of relevant SaleCycle products and build strong relationships with business stakeholders in our offices in the UK and Paris with remote colleagues based in APAC.
• Support key business stakeholders in relation to the negotiation of all commercial contract matters including customer, supplier and partner agreements as well as maintaining relevant precedents;
• Be the Company Data Protection Officer with an understanding of the relevant current and future Data Compliance legislation in key geographies, communicating it effectively to relevant business stakeholders and supporting implementation of compliance processes and systems where appropriate;
• Support the business to ensure our client contracts and our insurance dovetail, and ensure we operate within the rules and confines of our insurance;
• Identify and implement proactive legal solutions that minimise legal risks across the business; and
• Be the focal point for all other legal queries resolving them with support from external law firms if required.

Personal Skills and Attributes

You will be key to the growth of our business, and this requires a strong set of personal attributes, as a minimum you should be:

• Friendly, approachable, positive and engaging when enabling people and teams, our company culture is sacrosanct;
• Adaptable and confident with a can-do approach, willing and able to take ownership of a varied workload;
• Where required, attend client-facing calls and meetings to support commercial and legal negotiations and mitigate legal risk.
• A strong and confident communicator, able to convey legal points in a concise and clear manner;
• Efficient and organised, with strong prioritisation skills;
• Able to ensure that a workload of varying legal complexity is handled by the appropriate resource within the business;
• Diligent, pro-active and able to demonstrate excellent legal and business judgement and strategic thinking;
• Able to self-manage learning to stay abreast of relevant legislation, and to maintain knowledge and skills;
• Flexible in terms of changing priorities across our global business, and occasional priorities that arise out of normal hours;
• Able to educate teams and individuals as appropriate to enable them to handle appropriate legal queries;
• Display maturity and understanding of the challenges faced by how a small to medium business works.

Your Professional Skills

Minimum Qualifications

• A qualified solicitor with at least 3 or more years’ experience; and
• Strong contract negotiating and drafting skills and commercial acumen.
• Data protection experience with a specific focus on technology and marketing being desirable.

Preferred experience

• Providing and overseeing legal support for different global jurisdictions;
• Working in an in-house environment;
• Working for a marketing or data company;
• Working in or with a small to medium growing business

What We Offer

We value our employees here at SaleCycle, so in addition to a competitive salary, we offer great benefits and incentives to our employees.

• Flexible hybrid working
• Generous annual leave plus your birthday off
• EAP including 24/7 GP access
• Pension Scheme
• Tech & Cycle to work schemes
• Team events and individual social fund
• Bonus schemes for innovation, new business, and employee referrals
• Supporting your learning and development, e.g. professional qualifications

Location Requirements

The successful candidate will be North East based and will be required to work from our Gateshead office at least two days per week.

Our Recruitment Process

The recruitment process will involve an initial telephone interview to briefly discuss your experience, salary expectations and any questions you may have.

The next stage would be a remote or in-person interview with members of the C-Level team. We will use this opportunity to get to know you better, understand what experience and skills you can bring to the team, and discuss the opportunities that we can give you.

You may then be invited for a further interview with our CEO and General Counsel.

Interested? Apply now! We would love to hear from you!

As part of our recruitment process, successful candidates are subject to a DBS check. This cost is covered by SaleCycle.

**We are an equal opportunities employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, sex, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability status or age.**