Junior Legal Counsel

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Join us as a Junior Legal Counsel
The Junior Legal Counsel provides practical, commercially focused legal support to the business, with a particular focus on Three's property and network estate portfolio.
Reporting to the Senior Legal Counsel, this role provides commercially focused legal advice to business stakeholders on property, infrastructure and commercial matters. The role manages a broad portfolio of legal matters, identifying and mitigating legal risk while negotiating a wide range of property and commercial agreements. Working with a high degree of autonomy, the role supports the Senior Legal Counsel on more complex or high-risk matters while building trusted relationships across the business. The role also supports the effective management of legal risk arising from site acquisition, estate management, network deployment and property-related projects, while providing legal expertise across broader commercial and regulatory matters.

What else it involves:

As Junior Legal Counsel, you will:

• Provide clear, concise and commercially focused legal advice to business stakeholders, independently managing legal matters within your area of responsibility while escalating the most complex or high-risk issues where appropriate.
• Lead or support the negotiation, drafting and review of property-related agreements, including leases, licences, wayleaves, landlord consents, access agreements and related property documentation.
• Manage legal matters relating to Three's telecommunications site portfolio, including lease renewals, notices, site access matters, rent reviews and landlord queries.
• Partner with business stakeholders to support network rollout, upgrade and optimisation projects by identifying legal risks and delivering practical, commercially balanced solutions.
• Manage routine property disputes, litigation and claims, working with external legal advisors and supporting the Senior Legal Counsel on more complex or strategically significant matters where required.
• Draft, review and negotiate commercial agreements, including supplier, services and procurement contracts.
• Manage and report legal matters in line with Three Ireland and CK Hutchison governance requirements, ensuring appropriate legal oversight and effective risk management.
• Support legal and regulatory compliance initiatives, providing practical guidance to stakeholders and contributing to legal awareness across the business.
• Manage relationships with external legal advisors to ensure advice is delivered efficiently, commercially and cost-effectively.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of legal processes, templates and knowledge resources, maintaining accurate legal records and supporting the effective administration of legal workflows and reporting.

The skills we're looking for

Must Have

•  Minimum of 4 years' experience in:
• Commercial property, real estate or infrastructure-related legal work, either in private practice or in-house.
• Negotiating, drafting and reviewing property documentation, including leases, licences, landlord consents, wayleaves, easements and access agreements.
• Providing commercially focused legal advice and managing legal risk across a varied portfolio of matters.
• Building strong relationships with business stakeholders and influencing commercial decision-making.
• Managing multiple legal matters and competing priorities independently, using sound judgement to determine when to escalate more complex issues.

You will also demonstrate:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify legal and commercial risks and recommend pragmatic, business-focused solutions.
• Excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• The ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across cross-functional teams.
• Strong drafting, negotiation and decision-making skills.
• Sound commercial judgement with the confidence to make well-reasoned recommendations, balancing legal and commercial considerations within delegated authority.

Nice to Have

• Experience advising on telecommunications, utilities, infrastructure or network-related property matters.
• Familiarity with landlord and tenant issues, site acquisition or estate management.
• Exposure to commercial contracts and procurement matters.
• Experience working within a regulated industry.
• Knowledge of planning, access rights or infrastructure-related property issues.

Benefits of Working at Three

•  Flexible working with our new Hybrid model, our employees will enjoy more flexibility working from home and our office locations (2/3 days per week office based). Please see job description for the office location of this role
•  Competitive salary, annual performance bonus & pension contribution
•  25 days holidays plus 2.5 company days
•  Annual Leave buy or sell (buy or sell up to 5 days AL each year)
•  Healthcare Insurance through our flexible benefits programme
•  Life assurance, phone & laptop, subsidized canteen
•  Access to learning & development tools such as LinkedIn Learning
•  Free on-site parking

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Three Ireland is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. If you do not ‘tick every box’ in the job description above, there are likely other valuable attributes and skills you have that would make you a great fit for the team. If you feel this role is for you, then please apply! We are committed to equal employment and growing a diverse workforce.

 We embrace those of any race, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, marital status, family status, civil status or membership of the traveler community, and we want our teams to reflect this!

 If you require reasonable adjustments at interview, please let us know when scheduling your interview, or alternatively please email [email protected]