Senior Legal Counsel- Interim
Posted 2 weeks ago by Clifton Search
£110,000 Per year
Outside
Onsite
Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Legal Counsel role is a one-year fixed-term maternity cover position focused on commercial contracts within a global legal team. The successful candidate will report to the Group Legal Director and collaborate with senior stakeholders to influence business strategy. Key responsibilities include drafting and negotiating complex contracts, providing legal support for operational functions, and managing external counsel as needed. The role requires a qualified solicitor with significant experience in commercial law and a strong understanding of business dynamics, particularly in manufacturing or engineering sectors.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as a key contact for senior stakeholders in a range of business units and corporate support departments to help influence and implement business strategy and direction.
- Review, draft and negotiate high-value, complex commercial contracts with customers, sales intermediaries, and other key business partners.
- Supporting on L&S change projects that underpin the business’s key objectives across multiple disciplines.
- Support operational and commercial functions with day-to-day legal queries and issues.
- Assist in maintaining the L&S team’s templates, precedents and other know-how materials.
- Provide practical solutions to complex legal problems in the manner of an experienced business partner.
- Procure and manage external specialist counsel (as required).
- Support the Group General Counsel and Company Secretary, Group Legal Director and other senior lawyers as required, both in the UK and internationally.
Key Skills:
- Qualified solicitor (England and Wales) with 5+ years’ experience in delivering pragmatic, commercial legal advice in a demanding and evolving business environment.
- Excellent technical knowledge of commercial law and drafting skills.
- Superior analytical skills and a creative, flexible approach to problem solving.
- An ability to interact with people at all levels in the business.
- Display impeccable integrity and a willingness and ability to lead by example.
- A deep understanding of the challenges of a fast-moving, revenue generating business (ideally with experience in-house in the manufacturing and/or engineering sectors).
- An appetite to continually learn and share your experience and knowledge.
- Preferred experience in data protection and privacy, real estate and property, company secretarial, M&A and or corporate governance, competition and antitrust, software licensing, and working knowledge of intellectual property in commercial contracts.
- Fluency in another language.
Salary (Rate): £110,000.00 yearly
City: Gloucestershire
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Legal
Senior Legal Counsel (maternity cover – 1 year fixed term) – commercial contracts lawyer 45 minutes from Bristol and Cheltenham 3 Days office
We are currently recruiting for a Senior Legal Counsel for a one year maternity cover, to become part of the global legal, company secretarial and compliance team (“L&S”). You will report to the Group Legal Director based in the head office in the UK and work closely with senior stakeholders, including divisional and functional heads.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a key contact for senior stakeholders in a range of business units and corporate support departments to help influence and implement business strategy and direction.
- Review, draft and negotiate high-value, complex commercial contracts with customers, sales intermediaries, and other key business partners.
- Supporting on L&S change projects that underpin the business’s key objectives across multiple disciplines.
- Support operational and commercial functions with day-to-day legal queries and issues.
- Assist in maintaining the L&S team’s templates, precedents and other know-how materials.
- Provide practical solutions to complex legal problems in the manner of an experienced business partner.
- Procure and manage external specialist counsel (as required)
- Support the Group General Counsel and Company Secretary, Group Legal Director and other senior lawyers as required, both in the UK and internationally.
Key requirements
- Qualified solicitor (England and Wales) with 5+ years’ experience in delivering pragmatic, commercial legal advice in a demanding and evolving business environment.
- Excellent technical knowledge of commercial law and drafting skills.
- Superior analytical skills and a creative, flexible approach to problem solving.
- An ability to interact with people at all levels in the business.
- Display impeccable integrity and a willingness and ability to lead by example.
- A deep understanding of the challenges of a fast-moving, revenue generating business (ideally with experience in-house in the manufacturing and/or engineering sectors).
- An appetite to continually learn and share your experience and knowledge.
Preferred Experience in any of the following:
- data protection and privacy
- real estate and property
- company secretarial, M&A and or corporate governance
- competition and antitrust
- software licensing
- working knowledge of intellectual property in commercial contracts
- fluency in another language
Person specification
As part of the L&S team, your focus will be providing pragmatic legal advice while supporting our core values of Innovation, Inspiration, Integrity and Involvement. You will be adept at drafting and negotiating commercial contracts to reduce legal risk in a dynamic and complex business environment. You will have superior interpersonal skills to influence and inform your stakeholders, both within the L&S team and wider business.