Junior Legal Counsel

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Primary Purpose: The Junior Legal Counsel will provide legal advice and support to the Tapestry EMEAI business for Coach, Kate Spade New York and Stuart Weitzman in all European markets. The Junior Legal Counsel is a key member of a commercially focused, collaborative and supportive Legal team, working in an exciting, varied and fast-paced environment and providing high quality, practical and timely legal advice.
The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in Law to:

• Draft and negotiate a wide range of legal documents and commercial contracts (e.g. marketing & PR contracts, including influencer agreements), contracts for supply of goods/services, ecommerce contracts, NDAs, POAs and wholesale contracts)
• Provide legal advice and support to the HR team on employment law issues as and when they arise (including instructing external counsel, where necessary)
• Lead legal contact for Store Operations team, providing support on consumer law queries and negotiation of contracts for day-to-day services required in the operation of European stores, including review and negotiation of storage leases
• Support the Statutory Accounting team with audit requests and engagement letters with professional advisers
• Support the Customer Services team where legal advice is required
• Manage and respond to incoming legal notices, correspondence and other legal documents for the Europe region
• Keep up to date with the regulatory landscape and provide legal support to the business to ensure regulatory compliance
• Support the business to ensure compliance with data protection legislation in Europe
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional project teams (including Ecommerce, Marketing & PR, Finance, Tax, IT, Store Operations)
• Provide required information and complete necessary paperwork required for KYC requests
• Support Senior Manager, Legal Counsel on company secretarial matters relating to the European entities
• Organise and maintain all legal files, ensure the precedents database is expanded and maintained and assist with other projects that strengthen legal team processes

The accomplished individual will possess:

• UK Qualified Solicitor, NQ - 2 years of legal experience
• Employment law experience desirable but not essential
• Strong communication skills with desire to work closely with commercial and retail functions
• Excellent attention to detail with strong organizational and time management skills
• Comfortable in a varied and fast paced environment with an ability to manage a variety of legal matters
• Ambitious with a willingness to learn and take on responsibility
• Ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders across the business and to work collaboratively with the Global legal team
• Superior judgment, professionalism, ability to maintain the highest level of confidentiality, and assertiveness
• Experience in an in-house legal department
• Ability to be intuitive, able to anticipate needs of the business and to be proactive
• Fluency in additional language(s) desirable but not essential

What Tapestry can offer you:

• Hybrid working (3 days working from the office, 2 days remote)
• Option to finish early on a Friday (Flex Fridays)
• 1 Paid Volunteering Day per year and opportunities to volunteer with global projects
• Learning & Development opportunities
• Internal mobility & career progression
• Regular Social Events - Seasonal & Cultural
• Equity Inclusion & Diversity initiatives which include employee resource groups & regional inclusion council

Other benefits include:

• 25 days holiday in addition to bank holidays
• Annual Incentive Plan (company performance bonus)
• Multi brand discount up to 50% off - Coach, Kate Spade, Stuart Weitzman
• Private Healthcare with health assessment (Bupa)
• Bupa rewards - Financial wellbeing support and wellness discounts
• Free 24/7 support for family building, fertility and menopause with Maven
• Private Dental Cover
• Eyecare vouchers
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employer Pension Contribution
• Gym discount
• Interest free season ticket loan
• Cycle to work scheme

Our Competencies for All Employees

• Courage : Doesn't hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and "actionable" positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
• Creativity : Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
• Dealing with Ambiguity : Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn't upset when things are up in the air; doesn't have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
• Interpersonal Savvy : Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
• Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.

Tapestry, Inc. is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant's or employee's qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law. Visit Tapestry, Inc. at http://www.tapestry.com/