Managing Legal Counsel

Who We Are

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What You'll Do

BCG is partnering with our clients to tackle some of the world's biggest and most pressing challenges. Grounded by our values and guided by our purpose, BCGers unlock the potential of those who advance the world. Our Global Legal Team is a key enabler of our firm's success, helping to drive impact and progress across a number of important dimensions. English, Swedish, and Norwegian fluency required; other languages are a plus.

As a Legal team member, you will work across BCG teams and functions to support our business strategy, provide counsel and expertise, drive legal innovation, and leverage the power of new ways of working.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Managing Legal Counsel - Commercial Contracting is expected to be a seasoned and skilled lawyer, able to independently address the full range of global legal issues facing BCG and with a particular expertise in all aspects of commercial contracting. Among other things, you will:

• Be a fully integrated member of BCG's Global Legal Team, with a primary focus on commercial matters, commercial risk identification, and internal process improvement, with a particular focus on BCG's operations in the Nordics with Swedish language skills and the ability to negotiate and review contracts in Swedish being key. The candidate will also assist with BCG operations in London, Amsterdam and Brussels and the broader EMESA region;
• Serve as champion of BCG contracting and risk management standards;
• Draft, review and negotiate a wide array of complex commercial agreements, including global master services agreements, client and vendor agreements, licensing, SaaS, data, digital, AI-enabled services, subcontractor and partnership agreements, nondisclosure agreements, technology transactional matters and variable pricing arrangements.;
• Be experienced in quickly and independently redlining and custom-drafting legal documents;
• Implement and help to develop and champion BCG contracting and other policies and processes and provide assistance to seek approvals on deviations of contract or other policies;
• Provide general counselling and management of a full spectrum of business and legal issues, which, in addition to general commercial matters includes particular focus on licensing and intellectual property topics, digital and technology, data protection, competition law and trade regulations, conflicts of interests, and other legal matters;
• Identify legal, commercial, operational and reputational risk early, articulate implications clearly to senior stakeholders, and recommend practical mitigation strategies that support business objectives while protecting BCG's legal and ethical standards. Team successfully across BCG and integrate fully into BCG's Global Legal Team to resolve or support resolution of complex legal issues;
• Act as bridge and point of contact between functions and business for resolving legal issues;
• Contribute to developing and maintaining Legal Team know-how, templates, technology solutions, and other key enablers;
• Managing and directing consulting teams to ensure compliance with privacy laws including General Data Protections Regulations (GDPR) and data security. Conducting investigations in the event of data breaches and reporting findings and recommendations for improvements;
• Managing and directing consulting teams to navigate regulatory compliance issues; and
• Use AI and technology responsibly to enhance legal delivery, at a level appropriate for a senior member of the legal team:
• Lead the responsible use of AI and legal technology to accelerate legal research, risk assessment, contract review, drafting, negotiation preparation and synthesis.
• Structure inputs thoughtfully and critically assess outputs to ensure accuracy, legal defensibility, confidentiality, privilege, tone and commercial judgment.
• Understand and manage risks associated with AI use, including confidentiality, data protection, privilege, bias, reliability, transparency, client commitments and appropriate human oversight.
• Identify opportunities to scale legal support through automation, knowledge tools, contract playbooks, AI-enabled workflows and repeatable processes.
• Coach colleagues and business stakeholders on effective, responsible and risk-aware use of legal technology and AI-enabled tools.
• Provide leadership, coaching and guidance to Legal team colleagues and business stakeholders, including by reviewing work product, sharing expertise and helping to build capability across the Commercial Legal team.
• Performing other duties as assigned or required.

In all cases, BCG's Managing Legal Counsel will be an exceptional lawyer, able to efficiently deliver high quality work, and will have substantial experience effectively advising on and negotiating large commercial programs by deploying a strategic, outcome-based perspective to transactions.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

• Complex commercial contracts are negotiated efficiently with clear risk positioning, strong commercial alignment and appropriate escalation of material issues.
• Senior stakeholders seek out and trust your advice because it is precise, pragmatic, commercially grounded and legally robust.
• Contracting cycle times, consistency and quality improve through scalable templates, playbooks, knowledge tools and responsible AI-enabled workflows.
• BCG contracting and risk management standards are applied consistently across relevant markets, with thoughtful handling of deviations.
• You strengthen Legal team capability through coaching, knowledge-sharing, process improvement and adoption of modern legal delivery tools.
• You demonstrate measurable impact on risk mitigation, operational clarity and business enablement across the region.

YOU'RE GOOD AT

• Superior analytical skills and creative problem-solving ability, with an appreciation for striking a practical balance between business and legal objectives;
• Talent for absorbing new skill sets and areas of expertise quickly and comfortably and the flexibility to deal with a diverse international set of clients and advisors;
• The ability to quickly comprehend complex sets of international laws and regulations and interpret those laws within the context of BCG's global policies;
• A positive, dynamic, client-focused approach to legal practice;
• Perform successfully and produce results in a fast-paced, intellectually intense, client-oriented environment;
• Superior communication skills;
• Swedish and/or Norwegian language skills;
• Be a pragmatic, high-energy professional, with personal and professional self-confidence;
• Have the interpersonal skills necessary to build relationships throughout a loosely structured organization;
• Comfortable with technology and systems that are used in daily work, including contract lifecycle software, Slack, and other platforms;
• Deploying and driving large scale legal change efforts, influencing stakeholders and ensuring on-going awareness and compliance with contracting policies including adoption of contracting standards, AI-enabled workflows, legal technology and knowledge-management tools.;
• Be comfortable at assessing, presenting and mitigating legal risks; and
• Ability to handle high-pressure situations.
• Confidently exploring, evaluating and championing AI and legal technology tools, with a clear understanding of their capabilities, limitations and associated legal, ethical and operational risks.

What You'll Bring

• Graduate degree (J.D.) in Law from an accredited law school and admitted to practice;
• 10+ years of commercial contracting experience with international exposure;
• 5+ years with a reputable law firm preferable; prior relevant in-house experience preferred;
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; and
• English, Swedish, and Norwegian fluency required; other languages are a plus.

Additional info

A variety of cohorts and functions across the company, including senior leadership. Members of the BCG Global Legal team, Finance and the Partnership. You will report into the Commercial group within the Legal Team.

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