Department: Corporate Services
Team: Legal
Location: Brussels
Position type: Permanent Full-Time
What the hiring manager says
The GSMA is an exciting and dynamic place to work for a competition lawyer. The combination of competition areas that impact GSMA’s business ranging from different types of agreements to dominance and the wide range of topics that impact the mobile ecosystem worldwide mean that you are never bored or done with learning.
Maria Sendin Valle, Antitrust Director
About the Team
GSMA Legal provides advice to all business areas of the GSMA on competition, corporate and commercial laws. The GSMA competition team is in charge of ensuring that the GSMA complies with competition laws around the world and leads on competition policy activities for the GSMA.
The Legal Team members are based in Brussels, Atlanta, London and Barcelona.
About the Role
GSMA Legal provides advice to all business areas of the GSMA on antitrust compliance. The Antitrust Counsel will support the Antitrust Director providing advice to all areas of business working closely with the Technology, Managed Services and Policy departments in particular.
The Antitrust Counsel will lead the advice on certain projects or act as main competition contact for certain teams in coordination with the Antitrust Director.
The Antitrust Counsel will be in charge of doing research, market and/or product analysis and case law review to serve as basis for the competition assessments.
The Antitrust Counsel will support GSMA’s efforts to ensure its Antitrust Compliance programs is implemented and up to date. In particular, the Antitrust Counsel will update content and provide trainings either individually or in coordination with the Antitrust Director and will be in charge of legal oversight, including documentation review and meeting coverage, of meetings and groups in coordination with the Antitrust Director.
The Antitrust Counsel will manage the Competition Experts Group comprised of competition experts from the Operator Members. The Antitrust Counsel will lead on developing and implementing GSMA advocacy strategies and positions on competition policy.
About You
You have notable competition law experience working for a competition authority (such as the European Commission, DG Competition), as in-house competition counsel or at a law firm
You have an interest in issues that affect the mobile ecosystem
You enjoy working in international and dynamic environments
You are conformable working independently as well as part of a team
You can deliver fast and accurate advice under short deadlines
Previous experience working in the telecommunications and/or digital industries is a plus
Contract type
RegularWorker type
EmployeeWorking at the GSMA offers you unparalleled access to the mobile industry. We offer a chance to truly shape the direction of mobile, whatever your role. By joining the GSMA, you will be exposed to a fast-paced rapidly evolving environment, working on global solutions, genuinely fascinating and industry-changing projects and a stimulating and dynamic environment designed to enable you to flourish.
In addition to architect-designed offices and competitive compensation, our benefits include fantastic learning & development opportunities, generous holiday allowances, four additional days off for professional development and many others.
To learn more about the GSMA, visit our career site, our LinkedIn page and our Twitter page.
Being You at the GSMA
We care deeply about diversity, equity and inclusivity and aspire to be the best at it. Your well-being and work/life balance is important, so flexi-time and remote working is available to all staff. We're keen to ensure everyone is equal, represented and connected so we particularly encourage applications from all demographics. The sucess of the GSMA year on year will continue to be contributed by people from all walks of life.
GSMA Values
Our values not only drive our culture – they shape how we work and interact inside and outside our global organisation.
Passionately driven
We approach everything we do with unparalleled capability, tenacity and commitment, knowing that the challenging scale, pace and complexity of our work is what leads to its world-changing impact.
Insightful leaders
We continually develop and engage our expertise, insight and creativity so that we’re always ready to respond to the changing landscape with authority, agility and nuance.
Stronger together
We lean on each other so the industry can lean on us, embracing our diversity by actively seeking out perspectives and skill sets beyond our own, fuelling each other’s successes and constantly asking how we can help.
Underpinning our values is our collective mindset to show up purposefully as good human beings every day, in every situation. When we’re at our best – we are collaborative, considerate and compassionate to others, and we create a safe space for one another to thrive, assuming positive intent in our colleagues. And if we aren’t at our best and the pressure is on – we feel free to be ourselves but still remain curious, lean into the tough stuff and we are always respectful to others and accountable for the part we play.
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