Senior Legal Counsel

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Accelerating early adoption of advanced digital technologies.

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💰 Grant on 2017-02

Description

• Engage with the business to build credibility and trust as a valued business partner, independently providing a full range of legal support / advice across operational project activities addressing legal implications and compliance issues. • Drafting, reviewing, advising and negotiating a wide range of contracts, in particular product launches, commercial sales contracts (including MSAs, teaming agreements and bid contracts), but also procurement contracts and research collaboration agreements, and potentially some investment activity. • Understanding and mitigating key elements of the company’s risk profile. • Creating, maintaining, and updating company policies and procedures. • Creating guidance and tool kits and providing training for the business. • Supporting the Legal Director on resolving legal issues that face the business from time to time.

Requirements

• A qualified solicitor in England & Wales with significant PQE. • Strong subject knowledge in contract and commercial law (including Data Protection), and good experience of contractual IP and IT application. • Significant experience with sales contracts, negotiations and processes. • Experience in delivering an in-house legal service, confident leading on negotiations and providing specialist / technical advice on legal issues. • Experience with investment activity, such as convertible loan notes or small equity investments would be advantageous, experience with defence / MOD contracts is also desirable but not essential. • Previous experience / knowledge working with technology in a legal context. • Previous experience working with and developing junior members of the team. • Proactive, excellent communication skills, able to work independently/ autonomously and with ambiguity. • Strong organisation skills, adaptable with the ability to work with changing and evolving priorities.

Benefits

• Excellent holiday package: 25 days annual leave, Bank Holidays and 3 days between Christmas and New Year: • Double-matched pension up to 10% of your salary; • 4% of your salary to use towards selecting benefits that work for you, including health cash plan, Private Medical Insurance; buying holiday, topping up your pension; • E-Vehicle Scheme; Cycle2Work; Tech Scheme; Gym Discounts; Give As you Earn; PerkPal; • Life insurance 4x salary; • Free to access EAP & Financial Wellbeing advice; • Enhanced maternity and paternity leave; • Hybrid working - with great offices to work from 2 days per week with some roles needing to be onsite more regularly to ensure the successful delivery of our work; • Investment in your ongoing learning and development with us; • Company social events throughout the year and free office snacks!