Join BT Group as a Commercial Lawyer - Product and Channels on an 18-month secondment. Based in Belfast, Bristol or London with a hybrid work arrangement (at least 3 days onsite), this role offers a competitive salary plus a 10% on-target annual bonus. You will provide expert legal support on innovative product launches and strategic partnerships for UK Business.
Requirements
Qualified lawyer with at least 2 years of post-qualification experience (PQE)
Proven experience in commercial legal and contracts work, ideally within a product and/or sales channels environment
Strong drafting skills for product terms, partnership agreements, and legal documentation
Experience collaborating with specialist legal teams and managing stakeholders is desirable
Skills & Responsibilities
Drafting and contracts: Prepare, review, and amend product terms, partnership agreements, and supply contracts for medium-to-high complexity product launches.
Risk and advisory: Assess and manage legal and commercial risk, offering clear and pragmatic guidance to business stakeholders.
Project management: Support projects to improve contracting models, customer order journeys, and regulatory compliance.
Collaboration: Work alongside multidisciplinary teams across Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance to ensure adherence to BT policies and competition law.
Potential transition routes: People from private practice corporate or commercial teams may bring strong contract negotiation and drafting skills, alongside meeting the core post-qualification experience requirements.
Job description
Closing date: 6/11/2026
Locations - Belfast, Bristol or London at least 3 days a week onsite
18 month Secondment
About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Products & Operations team as a Commercial Lawyer supporting UK Business. The Commercial Lawyer will be responsible for providing legal support on product launches for the latest innovative technology, as well as strategic partnership arrangements to support their sale.
We are a supportive, dynamic team and work closely with our business stakeholders, providing first class legal advice.This is a varied role which requires strong drafting, legal advisory and stakeholder management skills, working collaboratively with product managers and colleagues across the business to deliver compliant, customer-focused outcomes. You may also have the opportunity to support across all of UK Business including Wholesale and Corporate & Public Sector.
What you’ll be doing
Lead for BT Legal on product launches regarded as being medium to high in complexity, including drafting terms and conditions, reviewing supply contracts, advising on order journeys and identifying, assessing and managing legal and commercial risk.
Support, and where relevant lead, on projects to improve BT’s contracting models, terms and customer order journeys.
Support BT’s strategic partnership arrangements, including negotiation of partnership contracts and supply contracts.
Give clear and pragmatic legal guidance (and formal advice where appropriate) and practical solutions that helps Business UK understand legal risk, and maximise opportunity in-line with Business strategy and goals.
Work with Business stakeholders on a range of legal matters, including disputes, projects (including regulatory projects), partnerships, bids, new initiatives, legal interpretation, and legislative changes.
Develop and comply with BT’s legal and compliance policies and strategies, including development and utilisation of standard contracts for provision of standard product offerings.
Work collaboratively with colleagues across Legal, Regulatory and Compliance teams to support cross-working on Business matters and other legal matters across BT Group, including referring matters to appropriate owners and support functions.
Ensure that business is conducted in accordance with BT’s regulatory restrictions, competition law and BT policy, including the BT Code and BT’s trading policies.
Engage specialist support and resources where necessary.
Proven experience in commercial legal and contracts work, ideally within a product and/or sales channels environment.
Strong drafting skills, with the ability to prepare, review and amend product terms, partnership agreements and other legal documentation.
Desirable Skills / Experience
Experience collaborating with specialist legal teams (e.g. data protection, competition) and translating their advice for business stakeholders.
Excellent stakeholder management, communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary project teams and manage competing deadlines.
Must be pragmatic and solutions-driven: able to spot and explore potential issues and come up with practical solutions.
Our Package
Tailored benefits make a real difference. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range to support your growth, wellbeing, and
everyday life. You can design the package to suit you and your lifestyle. Your core benefits include:
• 10% on target annual bonus
• Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family
• Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off
• Equalised maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay
• Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
• Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us
• Holiday purchase scheme
You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready.
BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.
BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.
Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.
We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.
