Legal Counsel role
Starting from £90,000 + Additional Benefits / dependant on experience
Occasional travel to London office
Flexible working from home most of the time.
Our client, a global business, currently has an opportunity for an experienced legal advisor to join their team. This opportunity has arisen due to rapid growth within the business and will be a mixture of pre and post contract signature contract management. You will be an experienced Legal Advisor (PQE or equivalent) with demonstrable experience of drafting, negotiating and concluding high value and complex contracts and supporting the business through the complete bid cycle.
The role will also act as the general legal counsel for the rapidly growing business which is has a circa revenue of £150m to £200m per annum with a strong business pipeline including some recent large contract wins and renewals which alone are set to increase the current annual revenue by a further £25m to £50m in the next 12 months
The successful candidate will be responsible for:
- Act as a central resource to support the entire business globally and to organise external legal support as necessitated by subject matter and capacity based on support requirements.
- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating a wide variety of commercial contracts and general terms and conditions.
- Supporting key stakeholders with the contractual documentation from RFP stage to contract signature.
- Handling and advising on, day to day legal and contractual queries.
- Proactively identifying legal risks to the business and assist in developing strategies and internal documents to mitigate risk.
- Handling a portfolio of compliance related matters as part of an overall compliance programme.
- Providing training on legal and compliance matters to non-legal functions.
- Ability to work on multiple demanding projects at any one time.
- Being technically excellent and commercially aware.
- Being a team player with a can-do attitude and an ability to ‘think outside the box’.
- Delivering timely and high quality legal advice to the business all in a practical and commercially focussed way in relation to all relevant matters that reduce risk, resolve issues and maximise the opportunity for the business to deliver on its goals.
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