Senior Legal Counsel

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. With nearly 60 years of heritage, it is a responsible and diverse group of over 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations.

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

• Advise on customer-facing UK&I deals from opportunity qualification through negotiation, signature and post-signature support.
• Review, markup, 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, IP, data protection, cyber/security, audit, subcontracting, termination, change control, and exit.
• Collaborate with sales, delivery, commercial, finance, bid, data protection, security, and senior stakeholders to align legal and commercial strategies.
• Prepare concise legal risk assessments and recommendations for governance and escalation.
• Support large, strategic, or complex deals as deal lead or supporting deal lead based on experience.
• Contribute to post-contract issue management, dispute avoidance, training, knowledge sharing, and process improvement.
• Support non-client matters only where appropriate; primary focus is external customer-facing UK&I client contracting.

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