Posted:
9/17/2024, 9:25:16 PM
Location(s):
England, United Kingdom ⋅ London, England, United Kingdom
Experience Level(s):
Mid Level ⋅ Senior
Field(s):
Legal & Compliance
Workplace Type:
Hybrid
Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.
Why Join Us?
To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.
We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a global hybrid work setup (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.
Introduction to the team
Our Legal team supports all lines of business at Expedia Group and gets to work on exciting and cutting edge legal issues requiring creative and proactive legal guidance.
In this role, you will be responsible for providing legal support across multiple lines of procurement categories, including marketing, technology, professional services and real estate. This is a collaborative, challenging and fun environment where you can do your best work as part of a highly respected legal team. The role will be based in London and will report to the London-based Senior Director Legal, Global Procurement and Real Estate.
In this role, you will:
Review, draft and negotiate a wide range of global commercial agreements, including technology- related agreements, marketing and PR agreements, and professional services agreements.
Manage real estate transactions (leases, serviced office agreements, construction and fit-out as well as other ancillary agreements).
Provide legal advice and training to the procurement, real estate teams and business leaders on a range of commercial and contract issues.
Coordinate across internal legal teams on a variety of matters related to commercial transactions (e.g. Privacy, IP and Employment).
Interface with outside legal counsel on bespoke issues and manage a legal budget.
Experience and Qualifications
You are a self-starter who is keen to dive into a range of complex legal matters and have a passion and curiosity for technology.
You have experience with commercial and technology related transactions, and you are comfortable balancing legal risk and commercial objectives.
You have excellent work ethics. You are collaborative and ready to partner with Expedia teams from all over the company.
You have strong time management and prioritization skills.
You are a qualified Solicitor in England and Wales (or hold an equivalent qualification) with at least five years’ post qualification experience or other relevant work experience in an in-house environment or in a law firm.
Accommodation requests
If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.
We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.
Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™. © 2024 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50
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Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.Website: https://www.expediagroup.com/
Headquarter Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Employee Count: 5001-10000
Year Founded: 1996
IPO Status: Public
Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Debt
Industries: Reservations ⋅ Task Management ⋅ Ticketing ⋅ Transportation ⋅ Travel