Legal Assistant

3 weeks ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom Ishida Europe Ltd Full time

Job no: 494823
- Work type: Full time
- Location: Woodgate, Birmingham
- Categories: LegalMain Purpose of the role

The Legal Team’s ultimate goal is to support and protect the business from risk, whilst taking a pragmatic and commercial approach.

The Legal Assistant plays a key role in ensuring the Company (across EMEA) has access to high-quality, reliable, accurate and commercially focused legal advice in a timely, efficient, and accurate manner.

This is a great opportunity to work and learn on the job and we are seeking a professional and dedicated individual with a desire for a career within an in-house legal function.

Primary Responsibilities

The below list is comprehensive but not exhaustive. The Legal Team remains relatively small and hence we are looking for applicants who are willing and able to get involved in all aspects.
- To provide support in an efficient and professional manner through the timely and accurate processing of enquiries, requests and gathering of information.
- Review commercial agreements, and supporting with commercial negotiations where required on a variety of contracts within the EMEA region, including:

- Customer Sale and Purchase Agreements;
- One-off Supplier Agreements and Supplier Framework Agreements;
- Intercompany Agreements;
- Equipment Loan and Rental Agreements;
- Confidentiality Agreements/NDAs;
- To track, coordinate and progress all matters to successful completion throughout the contract lifecycle.
- Advise on the Company’s legal position and the principal contractual risks, assisting with risk assessments and risk scoring, and understanding the international perspective of contracts where applicable.
- Ensure that the Company works within the Contract Liability Policy (or with relevant exceptions & approvals) at all times and coordinating and capturing all approvals accurately and efficiently.
- Assist with contract forecasting to actively manage and predict workloads.
- Perform general administrative duties including contract bundling, coordinating contract signatures, archiving, filing, and drafting of letters or communication.
- Assist with regulatory and compliance matters of the Company.
- Perform in-depth research on specific points of law pertinent to the Company.
- Support with the completion of internal Company audits where requested.
- Develop relationships with key internal stakeholders and supporting key business functions and maintain a high level of effective communication at all levels.

What skills are we looking for?

To be successful in this role you will be a law graduate who has the desire to learn and shape their career within an in-house legal function, and has the ability to pick up new concepts easily. You will be customer focused, have high levels of organisation, strong attention to detail, and excellent communication skills (verbal and written).

You will be a team player, willing to support not only the Legal Team but also the wider Ishida team. You must have excellent attention to detail, good knowledge of Microsoft Office products - Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Advertised: 17 Mar 2023 GMT Standard Time
Applications close: 30 Apr 2023 GMT Daylight Time

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