Legal Counsel – McDonald’s

The Legal Counsel position will serve as a member of the Legal Team supporting all departments across the McDonald’s UK & Ireland business, including Franchising, Marketing, IT/Digital, Customer Services, Finance and Supply Chain.

Qualifications:

What background do I need to have?

• The applicant should be a qualified solicitor with ideally 3-5 PQE, although we are happy to consider applications at all levels. They should also have excellent academic credentials, having trained in a top tier law firm or a reputable in-house legal team in relevant areas of law.
• Knowledge and experience of a variety of company & governance matters, commercial contracts and structures of corporate/commercial transactions (such as share and asset sales) would be preferred. Prior in-house or secondment experience also preferred
• The team is looking for someone who is positive, self-motivated, enthusiastic, authentic, pragmatic, open-minded and curious about learning and gaining experience in new legal and business areas; someone who will enjoy working in a high performance team and with business stakeholders to help find solutions
• The applicant will need to be: an effective communicator including having strong drafting skills and the ability to clearly and concisely explain concepts to non-legal stakeholders; a relationship builder: efficient and able to see the big picture and deliver commercially sound advice