Interim Senior Legal Counsel | UK Supply/Construction Company | 12-month FTC | Remote or Office
Posted 3 days ago by Taylor Root
Negotiable
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England, United Kingdom
Summary: Taylor Root is seeking an Interim Senior Legal Counsel for a national distributor and merchant of building products, starting in October for a 12-month Fixed Term Contract. The role involves providing corporate and commercial legal support across the UK business, including contract management and compliance. The position can be performed remotely or in the office, depending on preference.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a range of commercial contracts.
- Developing contract templates and policy documents and keeping these up to date.
- Providing timely and accurate legal advice and support to the business on a range of matters.
- Liaising with colleagues from other functions within the UK business such as IT, Finance, Property, HR, and claims management.
- Ensuring T&Cs are reviewed and aligned throughout the business.
- Managing a number of contentious matters, including liaising with external counsel.
- Identifying risk to the appropriate internal stakeholders and proactively helping to manage and mitigate that risk.
- Assisting other functional leads in maintaining legislative and regulatory compliance throughout various business units.
- Keeping up to date with changes to law and regulation, conducting research into these changes, and communicating relevant requirements to the business.
- Maintaining strong working relationships with stakeholders.
- Maintaining the UK’s register of trademarks.
- Liaising with insurers.
Key Skills:
- UK qualified solicitor, or solicitor qualified in another common-law jurisdiction.
- Ideally, at least 5+ PQE.
- Any experience within the building space would be useful but not essential.
- Confidence in dealing with a broad range of issues.
- Excellent drafting skills and experience.
- Collaborative approach.
- Strong stakeholder management skills.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Taylor Root is working with a national distributor and merchant of building products. They're looking to take on an Interim Senior Legal Counsel, who can be with them from October for a 12-month Fixed Term Contract. This is a role which is providing general corporate and commercial legal support across the UK business.
Responsibilities will include:
- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a range of commercial contracts;
- Developing contract templates and policy documents and keeping these up to date;
- Providing timely and accurate legal advice and support to the business on a range of matters, including liaising with colleagues from other functions within the UK business such as IT, Finance, Property, HR and claims management;
- Ensuring T&Cs are reviewed and are aligned throughout the business;
- Managing a number of contentious matters, including liaising with external counsel;
- Identifying risk to the appropriate internal stakeholders and proactively helping to manage and mitigate that risk;
- Assisting other functional leads in maintaining legislative and regulatory compliance throughout the various business units, including construction products, data protection, health and safety, business ethics, and anti-corruption and bribery;
- Keeping up to date with changes to law and regulation, conducting research into these changes, and communicating any relevant requirements to the business;
- Maintaining strong working relationships with stakeholders;
- Maintaining the UK’s register of trademarks;
- Liaising with insurers
Key Requirements:
- UK qualified solicitor, or solicitor qualified in another common-law jurisdiction
- Ideally, at least 5+ PQE
- Any experience within the building space would be useful but not essential
- Confidence in dealing with a broad range of issues
- Excellent drafting skills and experience
- Collaborative approach
- Strong stakeholder management skills