Head of Legal

6 months ago

Portsmouth, United Kingdom Subsea Craft Full time

**Position**:Head of Legal to a Medium Advanced Maritime Technology Firm
- **Permanent**

**Who we are**:Subsea Craft is a fast growing, privately funded, UK-based SME delivering Advanced Maritime Technology. We leverage our team’s defence experience and technology expertise with cross-industry partnerships in the field of advanced maritime engineering. Our market ready platform, VICTA, is an optionally crewed / payload carrying dual-domain platform designed to operate at speed over range, capable of rapid transition beneath the surface to operate submerged, enabling the discreet delivery of effects within contested waters. It is a unique, innovative British platform focused primarily on the defence market but with utility beyond.

**What we offer**:

- Private Healthcare with optional family cover
- Life Assurance (4 x salary)
- Critical Illness Cover
- Unlimited Paid Holiday
- Ongoing professional development and training
- Pension contribution
- Flexible Working
- A culture of diversity and innovative thinking

**Responsibilities will include**:

- Reporting to the Legal Director, you will foster excellent working relationships with the wider business to ensure early detection and effective management of legal risk.
- Providing timely, technically excellent but always commercially focussed advice on a wide range of legal issues from routine commercial contracts to high-value, complex international procurement or development contracts
- Ensuring that SSC’s commitment to ethical business practices and governance is borne out in all we do
- Interfacing with external legal advisers to ensure advice received is relevant, contextualised and delivered to budget
- Managing SSC’s IPR portfolio in conjunction with external patent lawyers
- Developing policies on legal and contracting process, working with Head of Trade Compliance to ensure our supplier management processes are robust and agile

**Qualifications and Experience**:

- Significant post-qualification experience (6 years plus), preferably in a mixture of private practice and in-house roles
- Demonstrable experience in defence or maritime industries is required
- Must be familiar with public procurement contracting
- Experience of Intellectual Property issues in a tech business is required and specific knowledge of DEFCONs a plus.
- Experience of maritime regulatory and or classification certification issues would be welcomed
- Excellent written and spoken communications skills, this role requires a high degree of both technical and emotional IQ.

**Values**:Our people are our greatest asset, we continually strive to provide an excellent working environment to enable our team to do their best work. We have an agile professional workforce: we are founded on the belief that our people are valued and our business is trusted, inclusive and commercially-adept.

**What we expect from you**:

- Teamwork, mutual respect and collaboration
- Initiative and independent working with the ability to prioritise effectively
- Highest ethical standards
- Business and commercial awareness - desire to understand and support the cutting edge technology we are creating
- Agility, adaptability and continuous development - appetite to grow with the company and take on new challenges.

We are committed to building an inclusive, diverse workplace where everyone can thrive. If you require any support or adjustments to interact with us, please let us know.

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