Commercial and Procurement Legal Strategy Leader
2 days ago
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Legal Counsel to provide strategy, leadership, and business-orientated legal advice to facilitate AWE's mission. As a key member of the legal team, you will play a critical role in setting Legal procurement and commercial strategy, policy, and processes.
Key Responsibilities- Lead the development of the Legal strategy for AWE's commercial and procurement matters.
- Lead members of the legal team in providing technical commercial and procurement legal advice to colleagues in the wider organisation.
- Manage the provision of drafting and negotiation of standard and bespoke contract documents and assisting in contract management (including for example variations, novation and termination).
- Influence and facilitate best practice in AWE's commercial and procurement function, including assisting the organisation in implementation of the Procurement Act 2023.
- Provide legal support to AWE's external property programme and managing commercial aspects of real estate acquisition and management.
- Apply legal oversight on internal and external public sector governance processes associated with contract placement, including through contributing as a legal advisor to submissions to the Ministry of Defence, Cabinet Office, and other oversight bodies.
- Managing the resolution of disputes and preparing reports on those disputes to the Ministry of Defence.
- Advising on risk associated with procurement and commercial practice in support of managing the supply chain for a large public sector defence organisation.
- Advising on specialist Procurement legislation and regulations that impact on the defence sector and the public sector, including the Single Source Contract Regulations 2014, the Defence Reform Act 2014, and the Subsidy Control Act 2022.
- Analysing legislative and case law developments.
- Assessing and implementing improvements in legal and compliance processes.
- Managing the provision of external legal advice.
- Assisting with training of colleagues on legal matters.
- Managing other team members in the Commercial section of the AWE Legal team and assisting in appropriate strategic resource planning.
- Act as an advocate for high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security, and quality.
AWE has a wide range of benefits to suit you, including a competitive salary of £120,000 per annum, a market-leading contributory pension scheme, and family-friendly policies, including maternity leave of 39 weeks full pay and paternity leave of four weeks full pay.
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