Senior Legal Counsel Commercial

About the Company

Leading professional services organisation seeks Senior Commercial Legal Counsel to join its highly regarded in-house legal team. The role can be based in London or across the regions, with flexible hybrid working available.

About the Role

This is an excellent opportunity to join a supportive and collaborative Office of General Counsel in a senior commercial role, working closely with stakeholders across the business to enable growth while managing legal and commercial risk.

Responsibilities

• Offering a broad and high-quality spread of work.
• Draft, review and negotiate a wide range of commercial contracts, including master services agreements, public-sector framework agreements, supplier agreements, subcontracting arrangements and third-party agreements.
• Advise on legal and risk issues.
• Work cross-functionally with quality, risk, procurement, ethics, data and other internal teams.
• Support client-facing partners and senior stakeholders on complex commercial matters.

Qualifications

• You will have over 7 years’ PQE in commercial contracting ideally gained within a professional services environment.

Required Skills

• Experience of public sector contracting, supplier-side agreements, data protection, intellectual property and wider commercial risk management would be advantageous.
• Pragmatic and commercially minded lawyer with strong stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent drafting ability and the confidence to act as a trusted adviser to the business and be a decision-maker.
• Proactive, credible, solutions-focused and able to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced and evolving environment.

Flexible hybrid working, a friendly and collegiate team culture, strong professional development opportunities and an excellent benefits package are on offer.

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