Commercial Associate - Digital/Data

Purpose of the Role

We are looking for a strong commercial lawyer (2 – 5 PQE) with experience of at least one of the following sectors: retail & consumer, financial services, advanced manufacturing, aviation, digital, and health.

The Team

The Addleshaw Goddard data team is a large UK wide team of data protection specialists supporting blue chip, FTSE and international clients on a full spectrum of data compliance, contractual and advisory matters.

The team has been systematically growing in both revenue and reputation over the past few years and we pride ourselves on a providing simple, pragmatic advice in this complex and fast paced area of the law. As a team, we have a collegiate and collaborative approach, driven by knowledge and enthusiasm for our specialist area. The team acts for clients across multiple sectors and is particularly well known for its work in retail, tech, financial services and healthcare. key clients include HSBC, Asda Stores and Boohoo Group.

The practice handles both contentious and non-contentious work, domestically and internationally, and takes a lead role in developing tech-based data solutions with our award-winning legal technology team.

Where Will You Work?

You will be based in the Manchester office for this role. The wider Data Protection team are based across all of our UK offices. We operate a flexible, hybrid working system comprising a blend of working in the office and working from home, and we expect that that this will continue for the foreseeable future.

Your Areas of Knowledge and Expertise

As an associate you should be able to manage your own workload with help from supporting partners and managing associates, handling a spread of commercial work, preparing and negotiating a range of commercial contracts for clients on both the customer and supplier side as well as managing transactions across IT, data protection and intellectual property issues. This is a high performing, cohesive and busy team with excellent prospects for career development, and secondments, if you want them.

More about you:

• Experience gained within a comparable environment and at an appropriate level;
• Desire and ability to develop strong working relationships with clients and colleagues;
• Strong commercial awareness – but most importantly a willingness to learn and a genuine interest in commercial contracts;
• Be a team player, motivated and keen to progress to more senior roles within AG;
• Be ambitious and want to help grow the international practice and take an active role in core initiatives in the firm;
• Have enthusiasm for intellectually challenging work, are ambitious and confident to deliver at the highest standard;
• Take time to fully appreciate clients' needs and priorities ensuring their advice is meaningful, tailored, commercial and delivered with a solutions-orientated and enabling mindset; AND
Details focussed, self-motivated and proactive, and confident in building enduring relationships with clients that are based on trust and high-quality service delivery.

Our Firm

Addleshaw Goddard is a place where you are valued, encouraged, and challenged to fulfil your potential in a supportive and collegiate environment. Our culture of improvement, growth and collaboration delivers results, drives innovation, and rewards ambition.

We not only provide technical excellence and experience but, crucially, demonstrate real insight into our clients and what really matters to them and as such we are natural choice for FTSE100 clients and their equivalents in other markets.

Our success has been built by people from the widest range of backgrounds, locations, and perspectives. We have a number of employee networks that provide space to discuss the differences that make us who we are and celebrate this at AG.

OUR APPROACH: IMAGINE THE BEST YOU CAN BE

Everything we've accomplished can be traced back to our people and the way we work. Our reputation is something we are proud of, and constantly invest in.

Here, you'll do high calibre work, with high-character colleagues who care for one another and our clients.

Are you up for the challenge?