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Legal Counsel Media
Our client is looking for an experienced Legal Counsel to join the Commercial Legal Tribe within the Legal & Regulatory Circle. The consultant will temporarily replace a senior team member and provide legal support across a broad range of commercial and media-related matters.
The role focuses primarily on supporting Premium Entertainment business, including content acquisition, media contracts, distribution agreements, sports rights, streaming services, and strategic partnerships. Depending on the consultant's expertise, the assignment may also include broader commercial legal support across procurement, sales, customer operations, marketing, and contract management activities.
The consultant will operate in a fast-paced environment and act as a trusted legal advisor to various business stakeholders throughout the organization.
Responsibilities:
Nice to have skills:
The role focuses primarily on supporting Premium Entertainment business, including content acquisition, media contracts, distribution agreements, sports rights, streaming services, and strategic partnerships. Depending on the consultant's expertise, the assignment may also include broader commercial legal support across procurement, sales, customer operations, marketing, and contract management activities.
The consultant will operate in a fast-paced environment and act as a trusted legal advisor to various business stakeholders throughout the organization.
Responsibilities:
- Draft, review, negotiate and manage commercial agreements.
- Support content acquisition and media-related contract negotiations.
- Advise business stakeholders on commercial law and contractual matters.
- Support negotiations involving broadcasters, streaming platforms, content providers, and strategic partners.
- Draft and maintain customer-facing legal documentation, including general and special terms & conditions.
- Provide legal advice regarding media law, copyright, intellectual property and consumer protection.
- Review legal compliance of projects, processes and commercial initiatives.
- Translate complex legal matters into pragmatic business advice.
- Collaborate closely with procurement, sales, marketing and content acquisition teams.
- Support litigation and complex customer complaints in cooperation with external legal counsel when required.
- Contribute to the adoption and use of AI-enabled legal tools within the team.
- Master’s degree in law.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience.
- Strong background in commercial and contract law.
- Experience advising business stakeholders in a corporate environment.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent drafting and negotiation capabilities.
- Comfortable operating in a dynamic and rapidly changing organization.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Master's Degree in Law.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant legal experience.
- Strong expertise in commercial and contract law.
- Experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts.
- Excellent analytical skills and legal reasoning.
- Ability to provide pragmatic, business-oriented legal advice.
- Fluent Dutch and English.
- Strong written communication skills.
- Proactive and hands-on mindset.
- Strong stakeholder management capabilities.
- Experience with Microsoft Office suite and collaboration tools
Nice to have skills:
- Master's degree or specialization in IP, IT and/or Media Law.
- Experience with media rights, content acquisition or distribution agreements.
- Experience in the telecom and/or media sector.
- Prior experience as an in-house legal counsel.
- Experience with copyright, intellectual property and media law.
- Experience negotiating contracts with broadcasters, streaming platforms or content providers.
- Knowledge of consumer protection legislation.
- Knowledge of French.
- Experience with AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot and/or Claude.