Deputy General Counsel, Corporate Risk

WPP; City of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A global marketing leader is seeking a Deputy General Counsel, Corporate Risk to oversee legal risk and compliance across the company. You will advise on legal matters, manage governance, and drive risk management strategies. The ideal candidate will have significant legal experience, strong communication skills, and a commitment to integrity. This role offers hybrid working options, providing flexibility in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Hybrid working approach

Culture of collaboration

Challenging projects

Qualifications

• Strong technical knowledge and experience in a legal professional context.
• Ability to prioritize workload effectively.
• Experience in managing external partners and advisors.

Responsibilities

• Advise WPP companies on legal risk and regulatory queries.
• Drive WPP’s global risk management strategy.
• Collaborate with colleagues to mitigate risks.

Skills

Legal risk management

Strong communication skills

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Business integrity

Job description

Overview

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WPP is the creative transformation company focused on building better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities. We are a global network with operations in over 100 countries and headquarters in New York, London and Singapore. We are a world leader in marketing services with deep AI, data and technology capabilities and a client roster including many of the world’s leading companies and advertisers.

WPP’s Business Integrity program ensures our policies, procedures, and control environment are understood and upheld across geographies and markets. This program aligns resources, systems, and processes with WPP’s risk appetite, governance requirements, and regulatory expectations, and develops actionable strategies. Our focus areas include governance, systems, and processes to manage risk and integrity across the organization.

What you’ll be doing

• Advising and supporting WPP companies on day-to-day legal risk and regulatory queries and requests.
• Guiding and managing governance and regulatory matters related to compliance, ethics, and legal risk elements of employee affairs.
• Ensuring effective and efficient policies and procedures are in place, understood, and respected by all employees, and aligning resources, systems, and processes with these policies and regulatory requirements.
• Identifying and analysing current and emerging legal and regulatory risk issues across WPP; investigating policy breaches and violations of applicable external laws, regulations, and codes; and developing mitigation and remediation actions.
• Driving WPP’s global risk management strategy, including through the risk committee structure, and cultivating a robust resilience culture.
• Collaborating with colleagues and stakeholders across WPP to identify, evaluate, and mitigate risks and uncertainties.
• Ensuring WPP’s risk appetite, governance requirements, and regulator expectations are understood and respected by staff.
• Advising and guiding staff on risk matters with a focus on business integrity topics, including compliance, ethics, respect in the workplace, anti-bribery and corruption, and gifts and hospitality.
• Developing and maintaining precedents, best practices, and data sets that comply with company policies and local law for use across WPP.
• Managing external law firms and other professional advisors.

What you’ll need

• Demonstrated ability to independently identify and solve complex issues, with strong technical knowledge and written and verbal communication skills in a challenging commercial environment.
• A track record of building trust and partnerships with stakeholders at all levels, particularly on sensitive matters.
• Ability to manage and prioritise a varied workload to achieve positive outcomes.
• Significant experience as a legal professional, gained over several years in a relevant field.
• A strong ethical compass and passion for integrity in your work.
• Persuasive and able to drive positive change.

Who you are

We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded to new ideas, new partnerships, and new ways of working. We are optimistic about the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures for our people, clients and communities. We are stronger together through collaboration and aim to provide extraordinary work every day.

What we’ll give you

• Passionate, inspired people – a culture where you can do extraordinary work.
• Scale and opportunity – the chance to influence and complete projects at industry-leading scale.
• Challenging and stimulating work – the opportunity to work with a group of creative problem solvers.
• A hybrid working approach with teams in the office around four days a week; accommodations or flexibility can be discussed during the interview process.

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