Junior Commercial Counsel

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day customer contracting (MSAs, Order Forms, NDAs, DPAs, amendments, renewals, SOWs), with scope to grow into handling strategic, high-value, and enterprise deals alongside the Legal Lead.
• Manage and evolve Qargo’s CLM (Juro) with the Sales-enablement Lead: manage templates, workflows, playbooks, reporting, and user enablement across the business.
• Co-own Qargo’s data protection and privacy operations: negotiate customer and vendor DPAs, maintain the intra-group data sharing framework and privacy/cookie policies, and partner with Security on NIS2 and incident response readiness.
• Own end-to-end supplier and procurement contracting: SaaS vendors, IT, marketing, and professional services.
• Support US expansion: help stand up customer contracting workflows for Qargo Tech Inc.
• Provide support on corporate compliance and other ad hoc legal tasks as needed.

Qualifications

• Either a qualified solicitor or CILEX lawyer in England & Wales (NQ–3 PQE), with in-house experience or 3–5 years of in-house legal experience at a technology or SaaS business.
• Solid grounding in SaaS commercial contracting: MSAs, Order Forms, DPAs, NDAs.
• Familiarity with UK & EU GDPR and data protection fundamentals.
• Experience with a CLM tool (Juro experience is a real bonus!).
• Tech-native and AI-curious: comfortable with tools like Slack, Notion, Google Workspace and GenAI tooling.
• Pragmatic, business-first mindset – you translate legal risk into clear, actionable commercial advice.
• Confident operating autonomously in a small team, with high ownership and a bias to action.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; comfortable with senior stakeholders and external advisers.
• Collaborative and curious — you genuinely want to grow a function, not just maintain it.
• Fluent in English.
• French or Dutch is a big plus!

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