Job Description

The Company

Christie’s, the world’s largest Art Business, is an incredibly exciting & enriching place to start or continue your career. Whether you work within one of our Specialist Art Departments, or in one of our more Operational teams, we are all working together with one common goal in mind: to continue the success of this 260 year old company, steeped in history, bringing fresh ideas whilst not forgetting our shared values: Integrity, Excellence, Innovation, Responsibility & Relationships. Colleagues across all departments are truly passionate about what they do and it is inspiring to work with industry leaders across our business.

Why This Role Matters

We are looking for a commercially minded commercial and technology lawyer between 5-7 years PQE to join our London team. The suitable candidate will undertake a richly diverse and varied role, working on a wide range of commercial contracts and legal issues across the global business.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Draft, review and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements, including technology and IT services (MSAs, SOWs, SaaS and software licensing), logistics and warehousing, procurement and operational supply/services agreements.

• Advise on data privacy matters, including data processing agreements, international data transfers and standard contractual clauses, working closely with Data Privacy and Information Security.

• Support business partners across the UK, Europe, the USA, Asia and the Middle East with day-to-day legal advice and strategic, solution-oriented guidance.

• Partner with Compliance, Finance and Procurement to align legal advice with commercial objectives and improve contracting efficiency.

• Develop and maintain contract templates, playbooks and practical legal guidance; deliver training to the in-house legal team and key stakeholder groups.

• Support legal operations, including vendor audits, contract management and adoption of contract lifecycle management and legal tech/AI tools.

What you’ll bring to the team

• Minimum 5–7 years’ PQE Solicitor qualified in England & Wales, or another common law jurisdiction with a transferrable skill set. US experience and/or qualification helpful, but not essential, to the role.

• Strong commercial contracting experience gained in a leading private practice environment, ideally followed by in-house experience/secondment, with significant experience in Commercial/ Technology/IP and data privacy work.

• Excellent drafting and negotiation skills, with a pragmatic, solutions-focused approach and sound judgement.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, able to build trusted relationships across functions and regions.

• Comfortable managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment and owning matters independently with appropriate escalation.

• Clear, concise communication style; collaborative, proactive and commercially aware.

• Fluent in English but other languages such as French a plus.

What’s great about working for us

• 25 days annual leave + 1 day Birthday leave  

• Christie’s Christmas office closure (guaranteed between 25th Dec – 1st Jan) – in addition to annual leave: almost two weeks to fully switch off and spend time with friends and family

• Additional 1 week’s annual leave within the year of a 5-year anniversary i.e. 5th, 10th, 15th and so on

• Volunteering day: Take an additional day of annual leave to volunteer for a charitable organisation that’s important to you

• Donation matching of up to £500 per annum to help you support the organisations you care about

• Flexible Fitness Fund - £400 per year expense allowance for health and wellness related activity (taxable)

• Access to world-renowned art: with regular exhibitions in our galleries to wander around and exclusive guided tours hosted by specialist colleagues

• Discretionary Bonus (dependent on the business and employee performance payable in March each year)

• Generous retirement plan: We will double match your pension contribution up to 5% of your basic salary (Max 10% contribution from Christie’s)

• Private Health Insurance – no employee contribution needed, subsidised for other family members

• Dental Insurance – (may be extended at personal cost)

• Generous Income Protection Insurance in the event of accident, sickness or injury after 12 months

• Competitive Life Insurance policy from first day

• Employee Assistance Programme – access to personal advice and support services including counselling

• Eyecare vouchers (once a year)

• Cycle to Work scheme

• Christie’s Extras – discounts on over 800 retailers, holiday packages, dinners and weekly shops

• Seniorcare by Lottie, a comprehensive eldercare solution

• Robust family first policy:

• 16 weeks full pay on Maternity Leave

• Eligible to return to work for 80% of your agreed normal weekly working pattern while being paid as though you were working 100%, post a minimum of 16 weeks of leave

• Dependent back-up care: 10 sessions/ days of childcare or eldercare per year

• Christies Family Network: Our community of parents who meet regularly over breakfasts, lunch, afternoon tea…

* Christie’s reserves the right to change company benefits at any time

Closing Date: Sunday 19th April

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