Legal Counsel - FTSE 30 Business - Surrey - General Commercial
- Recruiter
- Michael Page Legal
- Location
- England, Surrey
- Salary
- Bonus up to 30%
- Posted
- 02 Jul 2018
- Closes
- 30 Jul 2018
- Ref
- 13933548/001
- Contact
- David Taylor
- Job Title
- In House Counsel
- Practice Area
- Asset Finance
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
This Legal Counsel position is with a FTSE 30 Business with corporate head offices based in Surrey. It is a General Commercial role sitting with an "all service" internal legal team. The role offers expertise development and the opportunity to develop into an in house generalist.
Client Details
Our Client is world leading food and support services company listed in the FTSE 30, with corporate head offices based in Surrey.
Description
The key responsibilities with this role will be:
- Providing legal advice to the Group head office functions and ensuring the appropriate governance is in place on all matters;
- Assisting the International Clients sales team in drafting and negotiating multi-country master services agreements with key global clients of the Group, and providing commercially focused legal advice to various business teams worldwide on a wide range of commercial agreements;
- Drafting and negotiating pan-European and international supply agreements with key suppliers to the Group;
- Assisting with the provision of legal advice in respect of commercial law, employment, real estate, intellectual property, competition law, data privacy, insurance and general third party and intra-group agreements; supporting the Group Legal team on litigation
Please note, there is no expectation that this junior candidate will have expertise beyond general commercial work when joining the organisation, but they will be expected to have an appetite to learn and become involved with the areas listed above.
Profile
The successful candidate will be likely:
to be a UK qualified solicitor (or be qualified in an equivalent common law jurisdiction);
to have between 1 and 2 years of post qualification experience gained either in private practice at a top 50 ranked law firm, or in house, in the legal department of a large corporate or FTSE listed business.
NB: PQE referred to above is simply for reference and all applications will be considered, however, candidates should be aware that the basic salary is pitched as appropriate for lawyers around the 1 to 2 year PQE mark in this sector.
Job Offer
Excellent salary, car allowance and bonus well over market rate (up to 30% of salary).