Job Title:  Legal Intern

Function:  Legal / Finance

Location:  Head Office, St Vincent Street, Glasgow

Job Level: (Internal Reference Only) 1

Salary:     Scottish Living Wage

Contract: 3 Month Fixed Term Contract - 9th June 2025 - 29th August 2025. Full Time 35 Hours per week.

Date vacancy will close: Friday 11th April 2025. Where we receive high numbers of applications we may close vacancies early. If you think this is the right opportunity for you please don't delay in applying!

Who we are:

Born in Glasgow, made in Scotland and enjoyed around the world. Whyte and Mackay is home to a collection of multi-award-winning global whisky brands led by The Dalmore, Fettercairn, Jura and Tamnavulin. Our mission is to be a driving force in whisky, renowned for building brands that stand-out. Enabled by our brilliant community of 700 colleagues, reaching across 16 countries and counting. We're led by our values, continuing to grow and invest and looking for great talent to join our brilliant community. Ready to hear more?

What the opportunity looks like:-

Following on from the success of previous years, Whyte and Mackay are excited to announce their 2025 internship programme.

We have the opportunity for 8 Interns to join our 2025 internship cohort, this will be spread across various different areas within the business.

This will give students / graduates the opportunity to gain valuable work experience and skills within Whyte and Mackay home to a collection of multi-award-winning global whisky brands.

The Legal  Intern key responsibilities:-

• Assist with contract management and upload of existing contracts to cloud-based software for fast draft.
• Documenting company secretarial processes into a handbook.
• Experience of contract drafting.

On completion of the internship you will:-

• How an in-house legal function works.
• How to manage a trade mark portfolio.
• Company Secretarial obligations.
• Gain an insight to the importance of contracts to a business.

Skills and experience that we are looking for:

• Be studying/interested in having a career in a relevant field.
• Be enthusiastic and keen to learn.
• Have good communication skills.
• Have strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Be Computer literate and a basic knowledge of Microsoft suite.
• Must be available from 3rd June 2025 to 30th August 2025.
• Must be able to work onsite as and when required.

Our application process:

If you like what you’ve read and want to explore this opportunity further, please apply before the closing date listed at the top of the advert.

Our team read each and every application, therefore you'll hear back from us in due course.

Should you require any adjustments to our recruitment process to help you be at your best then please contact us at HRTeam@whyteandmackay.com and we'll do what we can to support.