Legal Assistant Contract Full Time

2 weeks ago


Wolverhampton West Midlands, United Kingdom Eurofins Full time

This is a part time position, totalling 22.This is a hybrid working role.

The role will provide commercial and legal administrative support to the Legal team and, where necessary, to the wider legal and corporate governance department, liaising with both internal and external stakeholders to ensure the delivery and management of all commercial and corporate contracts and processes.

The role holder will develop a clear understanding of the Eurofins policies and legal requirements to ensure compliance and adequate protection of Eurofins.

In this role, you will also support meeting the compliance requirements of the Eurofins Group’s UK and Ireland legal entities in a timely manner. You will be required to work with the Company Secretary to ensure Legal and Compliance requirements are in place across the UK and Ireland Eurofins Group Companies by supporting the coordination of compliance-related activities.

Provide day to day compliance and legal administration support and assistance to the Company Secretary
Draft and review contracts and agreements, ensuring that appropriate risks are identified, Eurofins stakeholder requirements are catered for, and Eurofins’ reputational and financial interests are adequately protected.
Analyse legal provisions, including clauses, stipulations, obligations and liabilities.
Negotiate contract terms and provisions without compromising on core Eurofins policies and requirements.
Carry out legal research using appropriate legal aids and databases including LexisPSL, and document research outcomes in a detailed, clear and concise manner.
Assist the wider department, as and when required, on new regulatory developments to ensure that business processes operate within the relevant requirements.
Support the Business Units in identifying and addressing legal requirements and support the development of processes, procedures and controls as required.
Enforce record management policies and procedures and coordinate overall file and database management.
Maintain the contract repository to ensure data is updated and expiration dates are accurate.
Complete certain procedural tasks through corporate software tools to complete the department's responsibility for compliance processes.
Assess and filter business requests and determine whether the requests can be dealt with internally or through the use of external legal resource.
Draft and review appropriate briefs for external legal resource.
Updating and maintaining the Group’s corporate data held in the Corporate Dataroom and on the Group’s data management system.
Assist in the tracking of UK and Ireland companies’ compliance with key governance policies and compliance targets.
Supporting the wider Legal/Company Secretarial team with administrative tasks as required.

Law degree, GDL or LPC or equivalent
Must have completed a module in Contracts Law either in a Business or Legal Diploma and must have a good understanding of commercial contracts and legal principals associated with Contracts Law.
Background or experience in a commercial contracts environment or position to include compliance and data protection.
Able to produce quality and professional contracts within established timelines.
We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.
Life Assurance (4 times annual salary)
Holiday Purchase Scheme
Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Pay Scheme
Company Pension Plan
Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential support.
Free car parking
Worldwide career opportunities
Whether its supermarket savings or days out, the daily coffee or a summer holiday – there’s something to suit everyone’s lifestyle.

Your data
As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.

We support your development Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.
We embrace diversity Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer . We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.
We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal



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