Date: 3 Jul 2026
Location:
United Kingdom, Hull, GB
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About Us
Zetron is an established global leader in connecting communication centers with field operations, personnel, and constituents. With offices in the US, UK, AU and CA, Zetron currently has a network of established partners, value-added resellers, and clients in more than 100 countries. Our Victoria, British Columbia office has been a center of engineering and manufacturing excellence since its founding in 1938. For over 80 years, we have been a trusted provider of LMR communication products and solutions that help our customers protect, inform, and save lives. Now we are applying those standards of excellence to build and deliver interoperable end-to-end command and control systems across multiple industries and international markets.
Always ready, always on!
About The Role
We are looking for a commercially minded Legal Counsel, UK & EMEA to provide strategic legal and compliance support across the UK and EMEA regions.
This role will support legal and compliance activity across Zetron & the Codan Group. You will provide timely, pragmatic legal advice, support contract activity, help manage risk, and contribute to strong governance and compliance across the business.
This is a varied role suited to someone who can translate complex legal issues into clear, practical guidance, while building trusted relationships with stakeholders across legal, finance, HR, IT, cyber, commercial and operational teams.
Key responsibilities include
Providing commercially pragmatic legal advice across the business
Drafting, reviewing and negotiating a range of commercial agreements.
Supporting governance, regulatory and compliance matters across the UK and EMEA
Identifying and managing legal and compliance risks, with practical mitigation strategies.
Advising on contractual, commercial, IP, privacy and data protection matters.
Supporting bids, contract variations, disputes and day-to-day legal enquiries.
Collaborating with global legal colleagues and external counsel on cross-border matters.
Delivering training on key risk areas including ABAC, Modern Slavery, cyber risk and other compliance frameworks.
Contributing to continuous improvement of legal processes, templates, systems and ways of working.
About You
You will be a qualified legal professional with strong commercial awareness, excellent drafting skills and the confidence to advise a wide range of stakeholders. You will be pragmatic, solutions-focused and comfortable balancing legal risk with commercial outcomes.
The successful candidate will ideally have:
Qualified Solicitor status in England and Wales.
Approximately 1–3 years’ PQE, although newly qualified candidates will also be considered.
Strong experience in corporate and commercial law.
Experience from a top-tier or strong mid-tier firm, with in-house experience preferred, but not essential.
Exposure to export controls, regulatory matters, privacy or intellectual property would be advantageous.
Excellent drafting, negotiation and communication skills.
Strong organisational skills, attention to detail and documentation integrity.
The ability to manage multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
A current English Practising Certificate.
Benefits:
Located in Hull our culture is supportive and collaborative. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team where we share our ideas and innovation is strongly encouraged. We are looking for someone with genuine passion and a can-do attitude for what they do. Zetron embodies the values of those who work here, embraces diversity, and offers a comfortable and casual atmosphere where people work hard and feel a part of the organisation.
At Zetron we not only create and stand behind products that help save lives, but our employees are also offered a competitive compensation and benefits package, including:
Single Private Medical Cover (with the option to select family cover at an additional cost)
25 days paid holiday (includes 3 company nominated days) with the option to buy/sell up to 5 days.
4 x basic salary life assurance cover
A Group Pension Plan with fantastic employer contributions
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Job Type: Permanent
Work Location: In person
