Legal Counsel
- Recruiter
- Fyte
- Location
- England, West Midlands
- Salary
- Negotiable
- Posted
- 02 Jul 2017
- Closes
- 30 Jul 2017
- Ref
- UK755102
- Contact
- Cassidy Bishop
- Job Title
- In House Counsel
- Practice Area
- Commercial Contracts, Company / Commercial
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Legal Counsel, West Midlands, Commercial Lawyer, Attractive Package
This is a rare career opportunity for a commercial lawyer seeking a varied in-house role. The client is open to candidates from both in-house and practice backgrounds.
This is a newly created role where you will provide customer focused support in relation to complex commercial contracts with third parties. Moreover you will:
- Work closely with external organisations and senior decision makers internally in negotiating, drafting and advising on the terms of large commercial contracts.
- Assist generally with external legal advisor relationships.
- Provide support on other legal issues such as litigation, intellectual property, data protection and compliance.
- Support the delivery of training to colleagues on legal issues.
- Develop standard agreements and procedures to ensure timely and effective advice is provided to the business.
- Support the development of systems to best manage the legal advice required by the business.
- Monitor relevant developments in legislation and industry practice with specific focus on NHS, health-care and public procurement.
- Provide updates to the legal team and the business as required.
To be successful in this role you will ideally have the following skills and experience:
- The ability to provide pragmatic advice to a large and complex business.
- A thorough knowledge of UK contract law.
- The ability to manage time and workload independently as well as being able to work as part of a team.
- Excellent communication and organisation skills.
- Good knowledge of Microsoft office packages, word, excel and PowerPoint.
- Previous experience advising on large public procurement contracts is desirable but not essential.
This is a great career move with a large organisation that has a strong track record of developing its people.
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