Commercial Lawyer

Job information
Division/Unit: UEFA Club Competitions SA/Legal & Business Affairs
Contract type: Permanent
Start date: 01.01.2025 or as soon as possible thereafter

Main goal

Join UEFA Club Competitions SA’s (UCCSA) Legal & Business Affairs team to play a pivotal role in the provision of all necessary legal support for UCCSA’s marketing, sponsorship and commercial rights activities in relation to the UEFA men’s and women’s club competitions. You will be part of the exciting new future of the exploitation of commercial rights to UEFA’s club competitions.

Key responsibilities

• Providing legal input and advice relating to the exploitation and implementation of commercial rights across all UEFA club competitions
• Managing the provision of legal services in relation to UCCSA’s marketing agencies for the drafting of all relevant legal documentation, including rights agreements and other general commercial contracts
• Managing contractual matters including liaising with and instructing UCCSA’s marketing agencies
• Providing legal support to UCCSA's commercial rights team primarily in relation to sponsorship and merchandise-licensing matters
• Protecting UCCSA’s and the UEFA competitions’ larger/overall interests from a business affairs perspective
• Cooperating and communicating with other lawyers within UCCSA, UEFA’s Legal Affairs division and the European Club Association
• Instructing external legal advisers

Experience:

• From 4 to 8 years of post-qualification experience in a law firm or international organisation
• Experience in a commercial environment ideally in relation to the exploitation of media rights, sponsorship or merchandise-licensing rights
• Experience of commercial contract drafting and negotiation

Education:

• Qualified lawyer with outstanding academic qualifications

Languages:

• English: Native speaker or business fluent
• Proficiency in other European languages would be an asset

Other requirements:

• Good knowledge of sponsorship, licensing and commercial contract law
• Strong core legal skills and an understanding of commercial business drivers
• Strong management and organisational skills including the ability to manage other personnel or stakeholders (e.g. UCCSA-appointed marketing agencies) in the fulfilment of legal requirements
• Excellent drafting, negotiation and oral communication skills in English
• Excellent project management, organisational and time management skills and the ability to prioritise to ensure consistent delivery of multiple simultaneous projects to tight deadlines
• Professionalism, including reliability, a commitment to meeting high quality standards and deadlines and respecting budgets, the capacity to plan and anticipate what will happen, a focus on efficient implementation, follow-up after completion, decision-making ability, accountability, integrity and discretion
• Experience in managing challenging situations with competing interests
• Team spirit: good cooperation with colleagues and counterparts, willing to help and support others to reach common goals even under stress, desire to proactively develop team spirit