Head of Legal (Manage a Team) - 10 month FTC

Company Description

Third Bridge is a market-leading investment research firm. We provide integrated solutions for the world’s top investors and business leaders to help them make smarter and faster decisions. No other company in the world provides the same holistic investment offering: our superpower is the combination of human insights and unique investor-led content with a global expert network. We serve over 1,000 investment firms, offering clients 24/7 coverage through our team of 1,300 employees located across ten offices.

Job Description

As the Head of Legal, you will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the legal department, and for designing and implementing strategic and tactical initiatives to improve processes and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the department. You will be responsible for the management of the legal team, supporting them in managing their workload and any escalations.

As the Head of Legal, you will also act as the interim Data Protection Officer (DPO) for the Third Bridge Group (outside of China and Singapore) and be responsible for ensuring company secretarial activities of all group companies are managed effectively.

Team management and operations

Manage the global legal team based across China, London and New York to ensure a consistent global approach.

Ensure the legal team is a high-performing and effective team, recognised across the business who services its internal clients efficiently.

Encourage and support the team to constantly develop their skills and expertise, ensuring each has a personal development plan and provide feedback and support wherever necessary.

Actively seek out and implement new processes and technology to improve operational efficiencies and effectiveness within the legal team. This is the legal team’s KPI for 2025 so it will be a real focus of the role.

Identify tools/technology to effectively monitor workflow, provide transparency to leaders and help identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement.

Manage the team's budget including forecasting, tracking and reporting during the financial year.

Conduct process audits to identify inefficiencies and areas for improvement.

In collaboration with business leaders develop and maintain a series of SOPs with business agreed KPIs for the team.

Policy management and adherence

Own, monitor and keep up to date the following legal policies: The Securities Dealing and

Insider Trading Policy, The Communications Policy, The Modern Slavery Policy, The Anti-

Bribery and Corruption Policy and the Privacy Policy

Ensure the Third Bridge global statutory and regulatory update tracker is updated quarterly

Corporate and company secretary

Ensure the company registers are up to date

Manage and maintain shareholder documents around the Management Incentive Plan and

Employee Share Option Plan i.e. share issues to and share purchases from managers and option grants to employees (and overseeing the annual required share scheme filings with

HMRC)

Manage the company secretarial relationships for the Luxembourg-based TopCo and the

Management Incentive Plan Trustee based in Jersey

Ensure intercompany arrangements are up to date (transfer pricing, inter-company loans, data sharing)

Respond to due diligence questionnaires and KYC requests from third parties including shareholders and clients

Companies House filings and other local filings

Advise on the legal risks and requirements for new office and legal entity formation

Intellectual Property

Advise in respect of the protection of intellectual property rights

Manage Third Bridge’s trademark portfolio and liaising with TM agents

Dispute Management

Deal with contract disputes with clients and specialist queries

Advise in respect of employee disputes and investigations

Provide advice in relation to restrictive covenant disputes (incoming and outgoing)

Respond to legal claims and cease and desist letters from companies claiming infringement of

employment/confidentiality rights.

Data Protection

Act as the DPO for the Third Bridge Group (except China and Singapore)

Design and maintain Third Bridge’s Privacy Policies, procedures, and training

Advise the business on the impact of data privacy and core compliance with global data privacy

laws

Liaise with regulators, responding to SARs and other data subject rights requests

Deal with Data Breaches and maintain the data breach register

Review Data Processing Impact Assessments and Data Processing Agreements

Insurance and Risk Management

Work with the business to assess risks and mitigate them

Ensure compliance with local laws and sanctions regimes

Maintain appropriate insurance to cover business risks and liabilities.

Qualifications

Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

7+ years PQE (5 years legal operations experience)

Proven experience of dealing with C suite stakeholders

Experience with legal operations and improving legal team efficiencies

Experience working with a team based overseas and managing global contracts and risks

Strong commercial acumen

Strong knowledge and experience of data privacy laws

Additional Information

Vacation: 25 days (which increases to 28 days after 2 years of service) plus UK Bank Holidays

Learning: personal development allowance of £750 per year

Health and wellbeing: private medical insurance and healthcare cash plan, a variety of health and wellbeing events to focus on mental health, Ride to Work scheme (savings on bikes and accessories)

Future and family: pension contributions of 4% (increases with tenure) and life insurance of 4x of your base salary

Flexibility: work from anywhere for one month per year, 2 annual volunteer days, 2 personal days when life throws you a curveball and 'Summer Fridays'

Rewards: get points through our colleague-to-colleague recognition programme to spend on hotels, gift cards, donations to charity and more

Social: weekly optional social gatherings, daily breakfast and snacks, social events

ESG: CSR, Environment and Diversity & Inclusion (including Women at Third Bridge, Pride and Blkbridge)

Frontline Innovation: your chance to share your ideas for improvement through Hackathons and other events

The successful candidate must, by the start of the employment, have permission to work in the country they are applying.

We know that to be truly innovative, we need to have a diverse team around us. That is why Third Bridge is committed to creating an inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. If you are not 100% sure if you are right for the role, please apply anyway and we will be happy to consider your application.