Northern Territory Head of Legal to ODEON

ODEON Cimenas Group, Europe´s largest cinema operator, with operations and brands across 9 countries (Filmstaden AB in Sweden), is now hiring a Northern Territory Head of Legal

The Role

As Northern Territory Head of Legal you are responsible for all legal matters across Sweden, Norway and Finland. The role is to provide commercially focused solutions to the operation of the territory´s legal, compliance and governance function. In acting as a senior member of the Legal and Compliance function, you will maintain exceptional relationships with the other territory Heads of Legal and colleagues and proactively enhance the Group function as a whole. You will be responsible for advising on a wide range of legal, compliance and governance issues within an organisation that is in a transformational phase both at territory and Group level.

You will be part of Group Legal and report to Chief Group Legal & Compliance Officer who is based in the UK with a dotted line to the Northern European MD. The main place of work is Solna, although other locations may be considered. The work will include travelling.

Key Accountabilities

As Head of Legal & Compliance Northern Europe your role will cover a wide-range of legal issues, including: negotiation of general commercial contracts; supporting the commercial and marketing teams with their promotional activity; advising on data protection issues; perform pre-litigation work to minimise risks; develop and deliver training initiatives across a broad range of contractual and compliance activities; and deliver general business compliance requirements.

Your internal colleagues will use you as the point of escalation and you must therefore build a network of senior regional contacts across the businesses. You will have responsibility to build strong and cost effective relationships with our external counsel although only using them when/where appropriate and do so within budget. A key focus will be to continue the development of better ways of working to improve efficiency/standardisation of approach across your Territory and the Group.

Who are you?

You will have a law school degree and at least eight years of professional legal experience, preferably in an international environment, ideally a law firm and/or multi-national company. You have a solid legal background and experience from diverse areas of law such as general commercial and corporate law, data protection, competition law, contracts negotiations, marketing and consumer law. You have significant exposure to working across multiple jurisdictions and cultures and you have the ability to juggle priorities effectively whilst being able to take a step back and plot realistic timescales, manage stakeholder expectations and be able to take a commercial and pragmatic approach to risk. It is desirable that you have experience within the retail and or leisure industry with particular exposure to consumer related issues.

Application

In this recruitment process, ODEON Cinemas Group is supported by Jurek Rekrytering & Bemanning. Interviews will be carried out as applications (in English) are received so please apply as soon as possible via www.jurek.se. Please note that we do not accept applications by mail. For any questions, please contact recruitment consultant Helena Woodcock by phone 0733 – 109585, or by email at helena.woodcock@jurek.se

About ODEON Cinemas Group

Welcoming over 100 million visitors each year, we are Europe´s largest cinema operator. We have more than 360 cinemas throughout Europe. We are the market leaders in Europe, with strong positions in the UK & Ireland, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Norway and Portugal .We are proud to be part of AMC, the largest movie exhibition company in the USA, Europe and the world with over 1,000 theatres and more than 11,000 screens across the globe. As an AMC company, we´re investing significantly to ensure we provide the world´s best cinema experience everywhere.

In a world of ambition where communication skills are king and teamwork reigns supreme, working at ODEON Cinemas Group gives people skills for life. We´ve made ourselves the leaders in the European cinema sector by understanding that our people have ambitions as big as our own.