Head of Legal

Head of Legal Milton Keynes Hybrid working available Permanent Full time - 35 hours per week £90,000-£100,000 Join our team Join our Central Operations team and take the lead on our legal and data-protection functions. We're looking for a qualified solicitor or Chartered Legal Executive (CILEx) with solid commercial-contracts expertise, and confident leadership skills. You should have a solid strategic understanding of UK GDPR and privacy laws If you're a hands on team player ready to tackle complex legal, contractual and compliance challenges while helping build trust and spark innovation, we'd love to have you on board. Role Profile To lead the organisation's legal and data protection functions within Central Operations, ensuring the delivery of clear, pragmatic, and solution-focused support. The legal team's primary remit is commercial contract drafting, review, and advice across a wide range of agreements, including IT, consultancy, supplier, standard terms of use, sponsorship, marketing, and collaboration contracts. The role also provides ad hoc legal support and advice relating to projects and new collaborations and working with external trademark attorneys oversees the monitoring and protection of the ICAEW's trademarks, including managing potential trademark and copyright infringements, licensing, and permissions. Responsibilities include: * Lead and manage the legal team to deliver timely, pragmatic, and high-quality support on contract drafting, review, negotiation, and ad hoc legal queries. * Provide high quality legal advice and support on contracts across a wide range of areas, including IT, consultancy, supplier agreements, standard terms of use, sponsorship, marketing, and collaboration agreements. * Provide ad hoc legal support and advice relating to projects and new collaborations to ensure alignment with organisational objectives. * Provide strategic oversight of operational data protection activities, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities, governance, and compliance frameworks. * Lead with a collaborative, inclusive, approach, fostering a culture of trust, openness, and learning across teams. * Encourage continuous improvement and knowledge sharing within Legal and Data Protection teams. Candidate Profile Requirements include: * Qualified solicitor or Chartered Legal Executive (CILEx) with extensive post-qualification experience. * Proven expertise in commercial contract drafting, review, negotiation, and risk management across a wide range of contract types. * Practical working knowledge of UK GDPR and privacy laws, with the ability to apply it in a strategic and operational context. * Experience managing or leading a small professional team in a collaborative environment. * Skilled in providing practical, solution-focused legal advice to non-specialists For the full role profile please click the document attached. Why work for us? We want you to enjoy your work and flourish in your role. Our working environment is friendly and supportive, and we encourage everyone to understand personal differences and treat each other with respect. We are a diverse organisation, employing skilled and motivated people from all backgrounds and helping them to reach their full potential, through training and development. Sustainability is important to us, and we work hard to reduce our carbon footprint, whether that's in our buildings through lighting and heating, or encouraging staff to recycle and reduce paper consumption. Our employee benefits include: * A substantial suite of training and development * Flexible working arrangements * A generous benefits package which includes gym discounts, pension plan, season ticket travel loans and health and dental plans We are a disability confident employer.