Senior Legal Counsel

1 month ago


Co West Midlands, United Kingdom Chadwick Nott Full time

Senior Legal Counsel
Commercial / contracts
£A financial services client based in Coventry is looking to hire a Senior Legal Counsel to join their well-regarded in-house team.
The role is predominantly remote with 1 day per week from the Coventry office.
The Senior Legal Counsel role includes advising on a broad spectrum of legal issues but will have a focus on advising stakeholders on commercial contracts and ensuring that such contracts are negotiated in accordance with regulatory requirements and the groups risk appetite.
Provide day to day legal advice related to a variety of strategic commercial and corporate matters.
Assist with reviewing, drafting, negotiating, and structuring of a broad range of commercial contracts, including material and non-material outsourcing services agreements, goods, and services agreements, JCT agreements, IT services agreements such as Cloud and SaaS arrangements.
Proactive participation in contract management, ensuring processes are in place to ensure contracts are operated according to their terms and creating and governing a clear process for contract management.
Providing clear, prompt, effective legal advice to all functions in relation to general corporate and commercial legal matters
Proactive participation to ensure processes are in place to mitigate legal risks and inconsistencies within internal legal team (and supporting) operations, to promote ongoing improvement and efficiency within BAU operations.
Applications are sought from qualified Solicitors with a minimum of 5 years PQE who have broad commercial law experience and who have previously worked in-house. Strong analytical, drafting and negotiating skills, ideally forged in a financial services or other regulated environment are also key. Experience in outsourcing, business continuity, operational resilience and data protection would also be an advantage.
This is fantastic opportunity to gain financial services experience in a market leading organisation.


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