Legal Counsel

Job Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Uxbridge, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Job Category: Legal

Job Description
Let's grow together
About Zurich Cover-More
Zurich Cover-More is one of the world's largest travel insurance and assistance providers and part of Zurich Insurance Group, a leading multi-line insurer. We stand for more care, more cover, for all, and we look after more than 20 million of the world's travellers every year, making sure we are there every step of their journey.

Our family of customer-facing brands include Travel Guard, Cover-More Travel Insurance, Travelex Insurance, Universal Assistance, World Travel Protection, Freely and Blue Insurance. We are a connected and caring workforce of more than 2900 employees with teams in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific.

Our global delivery platform provides a consistent multi-lingual service experience and ability to write insurance policies in more than 50 countries. Zurich Cover-More has more 200 distribution partners around the world including airlines, global travel companies, major banks and credit card providers and leading retailers.

Please note that we are happy for this role to be located in Dublin, Ireland or London, England.
What's the job?
Reporting our Senior Legal Counsel, you'll be responsible for the delivery of high-quality, timely, and cost-effective legal advice to our Irish business. This position will include drafting and negotiation (from NDAs through to complex commercial agreements); and providing pragmatic commercial legal advice to facilitate the achievement of business objectives within the confines of the law.

• You'll be responsible for the delivery of high-quality, timely, and cost-effective legal services to meet the business's strategic and operational needs coordinate the delivery of legal services to the businesses in the UK and Europe using external resources and WTP in Europe
• You'll provide 'solutions-orientated' commercial advice to the business
• You'll draft and negotiate all client and supplier contracts for the business units in the UK and Europe
• You'll manage litigation matters for business units in the UK and Europe
• You'll coordinate the legal and governance integration of the new Irish business into the wider group
• You'll advise the business units on UK, EEA and non-EEA state regulations governing the sale and distribution of general insurance product

What are we looking for?

• You'll have both private practice and in-house legal experience
• You'll have a background in financial services, and understand the regulatory requirements of the industry
• You'll have relevant tertiary qualifications in Law with a current practising certificate and up-to-date knowledge of EU insurance law
• You'll have strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work with a variety of stakeholders
• You'll have a current practicing certificate in the UK or Ireland
• You'll have prior experience working in Ireland and a comprehensive understanding of Irish legislation

Why choose us?
We value optimism, caring, togetherness, reliability, results focus and forward-thinking.

We have more than 2900 employees worldwide: we're a global group of digital specialists, actuaries, marketers, doctors, nurses, case managers, claims specialists, finance experts and customer service professionals. We share a global mission to look after travellers, at every step of their journey.

Job flexibility
. We understand the importance of making sure that work fits into your life, not the other way around. Our hybrid work week policy ensures our employees maintain work-life balance with the flexibility of 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home.

Career growth.
We want you to continue to learn, develop and bring your ideas to the table. We want to hear what you think, and we want you to work with the business - not for the business

Take the time you need, for you and your community.
We encourage you to take the time you need, when you need it. We offer regular annual and personal leave benefits along with anniversary leave, volunteer leave and a comprehensive paid parental leave scheme.

Diversity and inclusion.
We respect who you are and thoroughly embrace diversity. So whatever walk of life you wander, just be you and come as you are.

Apply today and let's go great places together