Trainline is an innovative, tech business with a mission to bring together the world’s rail, coach and other travel services into one simple experience. We aim to make travel easier and more accessible, encouraging people to make more environmentally sustainable travel choices. We’re hugely proud to be the world’s leading independent rail and coach travel platform and rank among the highest-rated travel and ticketing apps globally. Today, we offer our customers travel to thousands of destinations in and across 45 countries in Europe and beyond. That’s more than £3.7 billion in ticket sales annually, and over 90 million visits to our apps and websites each month. In another major milestone, Trainline listed on the London Stock Exchange in June 2019 and is now part of the FTSE 250.

Our culture is central to our success. We’re driven to sustain our phenomenal growth from recent years, and this means we’re always working closely and collaboratively to turn our ideas into reality. It’s this sense of pace, innovating and improving pretty much everything we do, that makes Trainline so exciting and unique - we truly believe our work has a genuine impact and will change travel for the better.

The Legal team has been instrumental in supporting the business through its continued expansion. Headed up by James Hanratty (a Legal leader in Digital & Technology), they have won several industry accolades in recent years including ‘In-House Team of the Year’ at the Lexis Nexis Legal Awards in 2019.  Striking a balance between being innovative and high performing yet remaining close-knit and highly supportive of one another, this is a highly regarded team where people genuinely enjoy what they do and make a difference to the business every day!

Reporting into the Head of Legal – Carrier & Tech, the focus of the role will be to provide legal support to the business to help with the growth of Trainline’s key French market. With significant business investment being put into this region, this is an incredible opportunity to join Trainline at a time of exciting growth. As a French qualified lawyer, you will be a key legal point of contact for French matters and instrumental to our expansion plans.

As our French market counsel, you will be expected to have a good understanding of all areas of commercial law with a particular focus on the French market and will require a good understanding of consumer law, e-commerce law, advertising and marketing law, data protection law, IP, and commercial contracts.

Whilst you will be a key legal point of contact for France, you will be part of a wider, supportive and collaborative legal team, working closely with other lawyers with similar focuses in other regions.

Responsibilities

· Providing overall legal support to the French brand, marketing, communications, SEO, PPC and product teams business teams.
· Specifically providing French legal advice in respect of consumer law, e-commerce law, advertising and marketing law, data protection law and commercial contracts.
· Drafting, negotiating and interpreting commercial contracts, mainly in respect of Trainline acting as a customer when procuring services for the marketing and product teams.
· Providing legal support to Trainline’s distribution business and assisting with regulatory matters in the French market.
· Working autonomously and leading in respect of the provision of consumer and general legal advice for Italy and Spain.

Knowledge & Experience

Essential:

· French law qualified.
· 2- 4 years’ experience post CAPA.
· Private practice and in-house experience preferred with a tech/online focus, ideally multi-jurisdictional.
· Experience working in a fast-paced business.
· Strong general understanding of consumer law, e-commerce law, advertising and marketing law, data protection law and commercial contracts.
· Demonstrable team player and must be able to work cross functionally.
· A significant degree of autonomy and responsibility will be expected with an ability to ‘self-start’ confidently and effectively.
· Strong communication and influencing skills, including in respect of senior management colleagues.
· Attention to detail and ability to carry out in depth legal analysis but deliver advice in a concise, business friendly manner.
· Effective organisational and prioritisation skills will be required to successfully manage your own workload and the business’ expectations.
· Commercially astute.
· Fluent in French and English.

Desired:

· Other EU languages (particularly Italian or German).
· IP law experience.
· Regulatory experience.

We value open expression at Trainline, we believe it’s the diversity of experience, backgrounds and perspectives of our employees that makes us who we are. We encourage everybody to play a part in changing the way people travel across the world.