Head of Legal 
📍Location: Brighton (2 days per week in office, 3 days working from home)
💖Department: Finance
🚀Reports to: Chief Financial Officer
👥Direct reports: Legal Counsel
📅Position type: Full time, Permanent

MPB are on the search for a Head of Legal to lead MPB’s global legal function, from our Brighton HQ! This is a high-impact role at the heart of our business, providing strategic and day-to-day legal support to enable sustainable growth. You’ll balance commercial pragmatism with legal compliance, guiding the business through risk, regulation, and opportunity.

You will report to our CFO and will lead a developing legal function, including a newly qualified legal counsel. You will be responsible for shaping legal frameworks that scale with our international operations across the UK, US, and EU, including matters of data protection, consumer law, employment law, commercial contracting, corporate governance, and M&A activity.

What You Will Be Doing:

✔️ Advising the Executive Team and Board on strategic legal issues
✔️ Leading the legal function, including direct line management and mentoring of our Legal Counsel
✔️ Drafting, reviewing and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts
✔️ Ensuring legal compliance across all jurisdictions, with particular focus on data protection, consumer law, and employment
✔️ Managing external counsel relationships and budgets
✔️ Developing and embedding scal;able workflows to manage legal tasks efficiently
✔️Promoting a strong culture of compliance and risk-awareness across MPB, through training and internal communications

Who We Are Looking For:

You are a pragmatic and commercially minded lawyer with a solutions-first mindset. You thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy collaborating cross-functionally, and can translate complex legal issues into accessible, actionable advice to our passionate global stakeholders!

Ideally, we are seeking applications from people who align with most of these areas:

✅Qualified Solicitor in England and Wales with a valid practising certificate

✅Significant post-qualification experience in corporate and commercial law, ideally including both private practice and in-house roles

✅Demonstrated experience supporting international operations

✅Strong working knowledge of UK, EU, and US legal frameworks, especially in ecommerce and consumer regulation

✅Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills

✅Experience in managing legal teams

✅Proven ability to manage risk with commercial sensitivity

Our Values; applied:

🌍 Better, Connected: We work collaboratively and embrace diversity

💡 Empowering and Empowered: We celebrate ownership and initiative

🔎 Insight-driven: We act based upon data and reflection

🌱 Agents of Change: We innovate and promote sustainability

🌟 Focussed on Excellence: We aim high, and work smart

🚀 Passionately Ambitious: We encourage creativity and strive to improve through innovation

About MPB

We are MPB, the largest global platform for used photography and videography equipment. Our platform transforms the way that people buy, sell and trade in photo and video kit. MPB is a destination for everyone, whether you’ve just discovered your passion for visual storytelling or you’re already a pro.

We recognise the benefit of inclusive practices to better build a diverse community here at MPB. Our commitment to ensuring inclusion fuels and connects us as one with the diverse community of visual storytellers that we serve.

MPB customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of family makeup, race, sexuality, religion, gender identity, disability or age. At MPB, every employee has the opportunity to make an impact and grow.

MPB Benefits

25 days annual leave + bank holidays
1 wellbeing day off per year
5% employer contributory pension scheme
Private healthcare
Access to EAP with a range of employee discounts
Buzzing social calendar
Dog friendly workplace.
Bespoke Learning Management System - the MPB 'Learning Lab' with access to thousands of free courses to upskill in any areas you'd like; whether personally or professionally
2 volunteer days for charity which aligns with MPB values