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Commercial Legal: Senior Legal Counsel, Partnerships

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Miami

We govern the beautiful game and ensure it's run with transparency and integrity.

Join our team in Miami and support us on our mission.

These are your key tasks: Key role within the Commercial Partnerships Legal team, which is responsible for the delivery of legal services relating to FIFA's commercial partnerships, including sponsorships and marketing. 

Drafting, negotiating and advising on a broad range of commercial agreements connected with FIFA's revenue-generating and other commercial activities, including FIFA's sponsorships, sports marketing, licensing, sports merchandising, retail and digital marketing activities, agency appointments and consumer promotions.

Acting as a key point of contact for Partnership legal matters for FIFA's Partnerships and Media team, advising on all aspects of the development and conduct of FIFA's strategic sales processes, the contract management of existing partnerships, the appointment of sales agents, activations by commercial affiliates, licensees and retailers and FIFA's strategic alliances. 

Providing commercial transactional support and guidance regarding the interpretation of a range of commercial agreements, including advising on relevant business risks.

Providing detailed knowledge of FIFA's rights and obligations in connection with its commercial programme, including the implementation and protection thereof; including the provision of legal and contractual input to FIFA senior commercial stakeholders and cross-divisional working groups on FIFA's existing commercial commitments and future commercial possibilities.

Providing legal and contractual support to FIFA's strategic and corporate development activities, including advising on the development of commercial strategy and structuring.

Supporting the exploitation of commercial opportunities on FIFA+ and FIFA's other digital channels.

Developing and maintaining FIFA's template commercial agreements.

Guiding other team members, reviewing their work and developing more junior team members.

Supporting FIFA's subsidiaries, including the FIFA Museum, and the FIFA Foundation regarding the exploitation of commercial opportunities within FIFA's commercial framework.

Delivering internal legal training and ad hoc advice on issues relating to FIFA's partnership related activities.

We work hard at FIFA.

We are dedicated, ambitious and innovative.

And we respect our values. Always.

For all roles, we seek talented people with an entrepreneurial spirit and a global mindset.

The specific competencies we require for this position are: First class written and spoken English language skills, consistent with drafting and negotiating complex, high value and nuanced English language agreements.

Ability to provide and communicate effectively practical and solutions-based legal advice

Excellent understanding of the sports marketing, sports merchandising, licensing, retail, digital marketing, sponsorship, licensing, e-commerce and business intelligence industry landscapes

Excellent negotiation, drafting, problem solving and analytical skills

Fully qualified to practise law (registered on the roll / admitted to the bar of an appropriate jurisdiction) having completed all necessary academic and practical training

Minimum of 5-7 years expertise "on the job" as a commercial contracts lawyer in the sports marketing industry in either an in-house legal department or a reputable law firm focusing on sports matters

Structured, reliable, well-organised with a strong eye for detail

Ability to perform consistently within a high-performing team, fostering collaboration, driving results, and ensuring the successful achievement of organizational goals.

Strong commercial acumen with an ability to transfer legal knowledge into commercially and operationally oriented solutions

Proactive, with a strong sense of personal responsibility with an ability to work autonomously on a wide variety of projects

Resilient with an ability to competently handle a large workload amid rapidly shifting priorities.

Open-minded team player with an affinity for working within a variety of cultures and excellent communication skills

High degree of professionalism and confident demeanor

Ability to be a good ambassador for FIFA in all manner of external facing situations, including during contractual negotiations, external workshops and during FIFA competition-related assignments

Ability to create, develop and maintain strong and reliable relationships with FIFA senior management as well as external legal and commercial counterparts

Willingness to operate outside of comfort zone

Takes initiative to reflect on how to improve and develop working styles and methods to assist the organisation and internal clients

Native level English (or equivalent), consistent with requirement to draft and negotiate complex and nuanced English language agreements and advice.

Proficiency in any other FIFA language (French/Spanish) is an asset but not required

Proficient in Word / PowerPoint / Excel

Comfortable with international travel

We are FIFA, the global governing body for football.

Our vision is to make football truly global, diverse and inclusive, for the benefit of the entire world. The last FIFA World Cup in Qatar in 2022 attracted more than 5 billion viewers and the last FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in 2023 was the greatest-ever FIFA Women's World Cup that inspired millions of girls and women around the globe. The opportunities for growth are exciting.

We are a modern organisation with over 850 passionate employees who are Living Football every day. Our headquarters are based in Zurich, Switzerland, and we have offices in Miami and Paris, plus eleven regional offices from New Zealand to India, Congo, Panama and Paraguay.

Estimated Salary range:

Our salary intelligence, powered by our AI algorithms, has calculated an estimated range for this position between $100,000 - $180,000 . Please note that the actual salary for this position may vary, as it is dependent on various factors including but not limited to experience, location, and market dynamics.

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