Associate General Counsel – Global Clients & Global Retailers

The Associate General Counsel- Global Clients & Global Retailers is a direct report to the General Counsel -Global Clients & Global Retailers of NIQ and its subsidiaries (NIQ Group) and plays an important role in drafting, negotiating, reviewing, and closing commercial deals for some of NIQ Group’s largest global clients and retailers.

The purpose of this role is to provide competent, practical, and ethical legal advice to the commercial leaders of the Global Clients & Global Retailers functions in a manner that is within agreed budgetary parameters. The role is heavily focused on drafting and negotiating commercial agreements relating to market research, data and information licensing and professional service agreements in a manner that implements company strategies.

The Associate General Counsel- Global Clients & Global Retailers must be a business-oriented attorney with the ability to recommend solutions and strategies to the business team in a clear and concise manner, and be able to work and manage multiple, complex projects in a fast-paced environment. The Associate General Counsel- Global Clients & Global Retailers must be a strong relationship builder within NIQ and with external parties. The Associate General Counsel- Global Clients & Global Retailers should be highly collaborative with a willingness to seek input from others.

The Associate General Counsel- Global Clients & Global Retailers must possess a high degree of accountability and motivation, be always open and transparent, and act with integrity and candor. The Associate General Counsel- Global Clients & Global Retailers must be highly customer focused and always seeking to exceed customers’ expectations

Responsibilities include:

• Participate with other members of the NIQ Legal Department in the deployment of global corporate legal and regulatory policies, procedures, and programs.
• Provide rapid, practical, business-oriented legal/commercial advice to the Global Clients & Global Retailers functions business operations, including reviewing and interpreting executed commercial contracts, licensing, alliances and other sophisticated transactions.
• Draft, review and negotiate confidentiality agreements, engagement letters, terms sheets and letters of intent, and transactional documents such as inbound/outbound licenses,
• Work closely with General Counsel - Global Clients & Global Retailers, NIQ Legal regional colleagues, related business teams, and others to drive deal execution.
• Actively support global NIQ Group Legal initiatives and be a resource and collaborative partner with NIQ functional leaders, such as in the areas of procurement, compliance, technology, privacy, data protection, finance.
• Attend and actively participate in NIQ Legal Department meetings.
• Other matters assigned by the General Counsel- Global Clients & Global Retailers.