Legal Counsel

7 days ago

Farnham, United Kingdom BCA Full time

**Job Title: Legal Counsel**

**Location: Hook, Hybrid with working from home**

**Salary: Benchmarked Market Rate, depending on level of PQE**

**Working Hours: 40 p/w, Monday - Friday, 8.30am-5.30pm**

**Job Status: Permanent**

**Role Overview**

This is an exciting opportunity to join the legal team at Constellation Automotive Group (**CAG**).CAG is a fast-paced, entrepreneurial business in the automotive sector.Our consumer brands, cinch and We Buy Any Car, are well known, butthey are only one facet of the group’s portfolio.The only things which CAG does not do with vehicles is manufacture them or scrap them.Our trading divisions provide an array of different services in respect of new vehicles and used vehicles during thelife cycle of those vehicles.We are acknowledged as market leaders in the automotive industry, with businesses both in the UK and in Europe.

CAG is private equity owned by TDR Capital.With TDR’s backing, we are on a journey to grow and consolidate our various service offerings.

The Legal Team currently has 8 legal advisers, working with all divisions of the group.We are a collaborative team which prides itself on its supportive ethos and its ability to work in close partnership with our business stakeholders. We provide pragmaticand commercial legal advice to support the delivery of key strategic and operational projects across the business.

We deal with a broad variety of commercial work, from supporting on bids and tenders, negotiating automotive services agreements with major OEM and corporate customers or supporting the CAG procurement team on key contracts with suppliers to drive efficienciesand improvements across the business, to advising on sponsorship agreements for high-profile sporting teams/events or media agreements for television and radio.

The growth trajectory of the group means that members of the team also have the opportunity to become involved in corporate acquisitions and related work.

**Key Accountabilties**
- Deal effectively with instructions from all areas of the business
- Learn the business in order to understand risks and drivers for each instruction/project
- Work independently on certain instructions, with appropriate support
- Work closely with other members of the legal team on larger, more complex instructions
- Form good relationships with our internal clients and provide clear, concise and appropriate advice
- Work with the other members of the legal team in developing and implementing the team’s plan for continued evolution and success
- Become involved in training for our business colleagues
- Develop the ability to know when to take a commercial view
- Have the confidence to ask questions when in doubt

**Knowledge/Skills required**
- Strong general commercial lawyer qualified to practise in England and Wales
- Strong listening and communication skills, both verbally and in writing
- Strong relationship-building skills
- Excellent drafting and negotiation skills
- Attention to detail
- Ability to work in a fast-paced commercial environment, and to embrace change
- Team player
- Assertive, resilient and comfortable working alone
- Excellent organisational and time-management skills
- Ability to prioritise work effectively and manage multiple priorities
- Tech and digitally “savvy” - ability to produce well-presented Word documents, and work with PowerPoint and Excel.Every legal adviser in the team is their own PA
- Qualified to work in the UK
- Preferable but not essential - previous in-house experience

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