VP Legal Corporate & Central Functions

Collinson is the global privately-owned company dedicated to helping the world to travel with ease and confidence. The group offers a unique blend of industry and sector specialists who together provide market-leading airport experiences loyalty and customer engagement and insurance solutions for over 400 million consumers.

Collinson is the operator of Priority Pass the worlds original and leading airport experiences programme. Travellers can access a network of 1500 lounges and travel experiences including dining retail sleep and spa in over 650 airports in 148 countries helping to elevate the journey into something special. We work with the worlds leading payment networks over 1400 banks 90 airlines and 20 hotel groups worldwide.

We have been bringing innovation to the market since inception from launching the first independent global VIP lounge access Programme Priority Pass to being the first to sell direct travel insurance in the UK through Columbus Direct and creating the first loyalty agency of its kind in the travel sector with ICLP. Today we still invest heavily in innovation to ensure that we continue to deliver superior customer experiences.

Key clients include Mastercard American Express Cathay Pacific British Airways LATAM Flying Blue Accor EasyJet HSBC Chase HDFC.

Our mission is focused on doing good beyond profit which for us means we seek out opportunities for our people to share in our success and that we give back to the communities and people within which we work.

Never short of ambition the success of our business is delivered through the diverse and talented team of over 2200 global colleagues.

Purpose of the job

The VP Legal Corporate and CentralFunctions leads a team within Legal globally providing high-quality corporateand commercial contract advice to the Airport Dimensions ValuedynamxCollinson Insurance businesses as well as the central services functions(Finance People & Culture Procurement Strategy etc). This executive rolecombines complex legal expertise with people leadership and strategic businesspartnering directly managing a sub-team and supporting the Chief Legal Officerin shaping and delivering the legal strategy.

The VP Legal is pivotal inoverseeing legal governance risk management and supporting businesstransformation across international regions for the respective areas ensuring legalframeworks and contracts evolve in line with Collinsons global growthambitions.

Key Responsibilities

Corporate & M&A Advisory:

• Lead and advise on complex corporate matters including mergers and acquisitions (M&A) joint ventures group-wide initiatives and ad hoc corporate transactions
• Advise on corporate matters such as joint ventures group-wide initiatives and ad hoc corporate transactions.
• Support and advise on integration / separation arrangements and post-completion obligations
• Corporate finance capital structure and banking arrangements
• Support CoSec and governance activities

Commercial and Central Functions Legal Support:

• Lead and support significant contract negotiations supporting a range of operating companies across our airport operations loyalty and insurance businesses.
• Provide legal support on intellectual property compliance litigation data protection and other risk-related matters.
• Support operational areas including employment/People & Development matters policies and terms and conditions.

Leadership & Strategy:

• Act as a strategic partner and deputy to the Chief Legal Officer helping to implement the vision structure and goals of the global Legal Team.
• Lead mentor and manage a sub-team of legal professionals overseeing matter allocation workload management and performance reviews.
• Role-modelling strategic partnership with all areas of the business raising standards and the reputation of the Legal Team.
• Support the transformation of the business by ensuring legal frameworks governance and risk management align with evolving global operations.
• Collaborate closely with senior stakeholders to influence both day-to-day operations and long-term strategic direction with a particular emphasis on Central Services functions.

Legal Governance & Risk Management:

• Maintain and strengthen legal governance standards and oversee risk monitoring across international offices.
• Contribute to the development and roll-out of Group policies codes of conduct and training.
• Provide timely advice and updates to the Chief Legal Officer on legal operational and corporate matters.
• Deliver training programs and focused sessions addressing legal and industry-specific risks.

Continuous Improvement:

• Drive improvements in contract management processes technology solutions standard agreements and legal policies.
• Ensure the Legal Team is an enabler of business growth through pragmatic solution-focused advice.

Knowledge skills and abilities

• Qualified solicitor or barrister (or equivalent) with significant post-qualification experience in commercial law including corporate and M&A law.
• Proven leadership experience managing teams of legal professionals including through subordinate managers
• Strong commercial and strategic mindset with the ability to partner effectively with business leaders to enable growth and transformation.
• Proven experience navigating complex corporate agreements.
• Outstanding communication and analytical skills with strong business judgment and a proactive solution-driven approach.
• Experience operating in a fast-paced international environment with multiple stakeholders.
• Flexible adaptable and entrepreneurial approach to legal and commercial challenges.
• Commitment to collaboration integrity and high professional standards.
• Ability to communicate complex legal issues in plain commercial language with clear options and recommendations.

Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including: colour race ethnicity gender identity sexual orientation neurodivergence family status age individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our on-going success.

We are focused on continually evolving our purpose driven high performing culture providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work. Our company values are: Take Action Do the right thing One team and Be insight led. These help guide everything we do internally in terms of how we think act and interact right through to how we deliver value to our customers and clients.

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