Senior Legal Counsel

Job description

Looking to join a collaborative and supportive team?

The role of Senior Legal Counsel provides pragmatic, commercial and risk-based legal advice to support the company's technology, digital transformation, outsourcing and managed services business. The role requires partnership with the business to enable growth while managing legal, regulatory and reputational risk.

This is a hybrid role with occasional office presence required in our London office.

What you will be doing:

• Commercial Contracting - Draft, review and negotiate customer, supplier and partner agreements, supporting complex technology transactions.
• Technology and Regulatory Advice - Advising on technology law matters including safe adoption of AI tools, Intellectual property, Data protection and privacy and Cyber security.
• Procurement and Public Sector Support - Advising on public procurement law and procurement processes and supporting bids.
• Company Secretarial /Corporate Governance - Experience with company boards, minute taking, filings with Companies House, Corporate Governance (large private entity) and M&A
• Legal Department Operations - Self-service for business and Document standardisation
• Stakeholder Engagement - Build strong relationships with business leaders across sales, procurement, delivery, finance, HR, security and operations and participate in commercial and operational decision making.
• Governance and Risk Management - Identifying and managing legal and regulatory risks and supporting corporate governance initiatives.

What you'll bring:

• Qualified to practise law in the UK or in another common law jurisdiction,
• Registered Lawyer with at least four years' experience
• Experience of technology and / or digital transformation is essential.
• General commercial legal counsel experience
• Previous experience of legal practice involving public sector contracts is desirable.
• Excellent stakeholder management, including internal clients, opposition stakeholders and external supporting law firms.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

Location: Hybrid, occasional London visits
Security Clearance Level: SC
Internal Recruiter: Adrian
Salary: Competitive depending on experience
Benefits: £6,600 car allowance, bonus, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?
We are a purpose driven digital transformation provider, creating innovative digital solutions to help clients drive their digital transformation projects and secure tangible and sustainable benefits. We harness the power of innovation to drive positive change in both business and society, delivering sustainable growth and services which make life better, from effective frontline citizen services, to digitising financial services, utilities, and delivering smarter roads.

We place people at the heart of everything we do and are committed to working with our customers, partners and suppliers to shape a better world and add real and lasting social value to the communities in which we work.

Together we are building a better future by delivering real and lasting value.

We are just at the start of what we can achieve together. Come and join us!

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.