Senior Legal Counsel

Senior Legal Counsel

Miejsce pracy: Wrocław

Your responsibilities

• You will support UK&I external customer-facing deals across the deal lifecycle, with responsibilities appropriate to grade and directly relevant experience.
• Advise on customer-facing UK&I deals from opportunity qualification, RFI/RFP/tender and bid stages through negotiation, signature and post-signature support.
• Review, mark up and negotiate customer-drafted MSAs, frameworks, SOWs and schedules for technology, outsourcing, managed services, cloud/SaaS, digital transformation, consultancy and engineering services.
• Support bid strategy, legal mark-ups, risk positions and negotiation assumptions under tender timelines.
• Advise on supplier-side risk allocation, including liability, indemnities, warranties, SLAs, customer dependencies, IP, data protection, cyber/security, audit, subcontracting, termination, change control and exit.
• Work with sales, delivery, commercial, finance, bid, data protection, security and senior stakeholders to align legal positions with delivery reality and commercial strategy.
• Prepare concise legal risk assessments and recommendations for governance and escalation processes.
• Support large, strategic or complex deals as deal lead or supporting deal lead, depending on experience.
• Contribute to post-contract issue management, dispute avoidance, training, knowledge sharing and legal process improvement.
• Support non-client matters only where appropriate; the primary focus remains external customer-facing UK&I client contracting.

Our requirements

• Strong understanding of English commercial contract law and technology contracting principles, including cloud, digital, data protection and cyber security.
• Minimum 7 years’ relevant experience for Legal Counsel; minimum 10 years’ relevant experience for Senior Legal Counsel.
• Regular experience with external customer-facing, supplier-side technology services contracts; for senior level, substantial ownership of complex or high-value customer negotiations.
• Experience supporting RFI/RFP/tender processes and reviewing customer terms during competitive bid stages.
• Demonstrated ability to review and negotiate customer paper and supplier-side risk allocation, including liability, indemnities, SLAs, dependencies, IP, data/security, audit, subcontracting, termination and change control.
• Strong commercial judgement and ability to explain legal risk in business-friendly, executive-ready language.
• Confidence to influence senior stakeholders and collaborate with sales, delivery, commercial, finance, bid, data protection and security teams.
• Strong drafting and negotiation skills, including the ability to propose workable compromise wording and practical mitigation options.
• Professional English, resilience under bid timelines, collaborative style and openness to legal technology and continuous improvement.

What we offer

• Practical benefits: yearly financial bonus, private medical care with Medicover with additional packages (e.g., dental, senior care, oncology) available on preferential terms, life insurance and access to NAIS benefit platform.
• Access to over 70 training tracks with certification opportunities (e.g., GenAI, Excel, Business Analysis, Project Management) on our NEXT platform. Dive into a world of knowledge with free access to Education First languages platform, TED Talks and Udemy Business materials and trainings.
• Cutting-Edge Technology: Position yourself at the forefront of IT innovation, working with the latest technologies and platforms. Capgemini partners with top global enterprises, including 145 Fortune 500 companies.
• Enjoy hybrid working model that fits your life - after completing onboarding, connect work from a modern office with ergonomic work from home, thanks to home office package (including laptop, monitor, and chair). Ask your recruiter about the details.

Benefits

• sharing the costs of sports activities
• private medical care
• life insurance
• no dress code
• parking space for employees
• extra social benefits
• redeployment package
• employee referral program
• charity initiatives
• access to courses e.g. Excel, VBA, RPA, Customer Care
• unlimited access to Udemy Business
• free chat/call with a therapist

Recruitment stages

• Interview with the recruiter
• Competency Tests/Language Verification
• Video call with a manager
• Final Decision

Your role

You will support Capgemini’s UK&I Legal Client Operations team on external customer-facing technology services deals, from RFI/RFP/tender review and bid support through customer-paper negotiation, contract signature and post-signature matters. The role is for a commercial/IT lawyer with regular supplier-side contracting experience in competitive customer environments. You will work with sales, delivery, commercial, finance, bid, data protection and security stakeholders, helping the business assess risk, propose pragmatic negotiation positions and communicate concise legal advice on what can be accepted, negotiated, mitigated or escalated. We are hiring one role; appointment level will depend on the candidate’s directly relevant experience.

Choosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you’d like, where you’ll be supported and inspired by a collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you’ll be able to reimagine what’s possible. Join us and help the world’s leading organizations unlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world.

Capgemini Polska

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organizations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of over 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations.

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