Senior Commercial Counsel

4 days ago

Dublin, Dublin City, Ireland Huawei Ireland Research Center Remote Work Freelance Full time

About Huawei Ireland Research Centre

Huawei Ireland Research Centre is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. With integrated solutions across four key domains – telecom networks, IT, smart devices, and cloud services – we are committed to bringing digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world.

Our innovation focuses on customer needs. We invest heavily in basic research, concentrating on technological breakthroughs that drive the world forward. We have more than 180,000 employees, and we operate in more than 170 countries and regions.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Commercial Counsel to join our team in Dublin City Centre. The role will encompass commercial, corporate, intellectual property, employment, and compliance matters arising from our Research and Development work in Ireland.

The selected candidate will work under the Head of Legal for Huawei Ireland and be part of the Ireland and global legal team. This is an opportunity to work in a global company in cutting-edge, multi-national technological space.

This role is to support Huawei across a broad range of commercial, intellectual property and compliance matters in relation to its Research and Development offices in Ireland. The selected candidate will be able to provide practical legal advice to business units and management on all legal issues arising from Huawei's research, development, intellectual property activities in Ireland as well supporting internal compliance, staff training and ad hoc legal matters.

Main Responsibilities:
  • Contract Review and Drafting: Advise the business on a full range of contractual/transactional issues ranging from procurement to research partnerships, and miscellaneous agreements regarding business development.
  • Statutory Compliance: Responsibility for reviewing and drafting general commercial contracts and other documents, including NDAs, master service agreements, master procurement agreements, terms and conditions, intellectual property related agreements (e.g. research and development contracts with academia or industry, IP provisions in commercial agreements, licensing agreements) and real estate-related agreements;
  • Compliance Support: Support the business with key areas of statutory compliance including anti-bribery, data protection and export control.
  • Training and Development: Conduct training sessions for non-legal staff on compliance issues and other legal risk areas (e.g. anti-bribery, data protection, confidentiality/trade secrets, business conduct, etc.).
  • Strategic Advice: Work with Head of Legal Huawei Ireland and as part of the European legal team to identify issues of regional importance and provide solutions for Huawei research centres across Ireland and EU.
  • Risk Management: Horizon-scanning and advising management on upcoming changes in the law or other external business risks which may impact Huawei's operations in Ireland.

This job description is only an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The jobholder will carry out any other duties as may be reasonably required by his/her line manager.

Key Requirements:

  • Commercial Acumen: Excellent legal drafting skills – ability to work with existing templates and to create bespoke wording/documents as required by the business.
  • Legal Expertise: Experienced Legal Executive or a Solicitor with at least 2 years' experience either in a law firm in Ireland or in a relevant in-house role at a recognised company/institution.
  • Communication Skills: Ability to comprehend legal issues and to explain the issues in plain English without legal jargon to non-legal staff.
  • Business Understanding: Strong experience with commercial law/contracts and employment law together with related areas of statutory compliance.
  • Intellectual Property Knowledge: Demonstrable knowledge of intellectual property law (in particular patent, copyright, trade secret and know-how) and data privacy issues.
  • Stakeholder Management: An ability to work closely with a variety of stakeholders on a local and global basis to develop strong working relationships.
  • Interpersonal Skills: Strong inter-personal skills and ability to work in multi-national and multi-cultural environment.
  • Commercial Outlook: Pragmatic, with a commercial outlook and an understanding of business needs.
  • Academic Qualifications: Good academic qualifications from a top tier university.
  • Decision Making: Ability to work under pressure and to make sound decisions.
  • Communication: Ability to communicate well.
  • Teamwork: Ability to work unsupervised and as part of a team
  • Organisation: Excellent planning, attention to detail, organisational and time management skills with the ability to work to tight time schedules, prioritising and handling conflicting demands
  • Location: Office-based work pattern in Dublin City Centre.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

  • Previous In-House Experience: Previous experience of an in-house environment
  • Cross-Border Transactions: Experience working on cross-border transactions
  • Employment Law and Real Estate Issues: Knowledge of employment law and/or real estate issues
  • Research Projects: Familiarity with research projects between academia and industry – an understanding of university decision-making and stakeholder processes
  • Intellectual Property Matters: Experience working on intellectual property matters (protection, licensing, litigation, acquisition and divestment, etc.)
  • Export Control and Trade Compliance: Experience of working with Irish Government on export control and other trade compliance issues

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