Head Of Legal
- Recruiter
- Michael Page Legal
- Location
- England, Berkshire
- Salary
- £90000 - £100000 per annum + 25% bonus, Car
- Posted
- 03 Aug 2018
- Closes
- 31 Aug 2018
- Ref
- 13933805/001
- Contact
- Oliver Jones
- Job Title
- Lawyer
- Practice Area
- Commercial Contracts, Company / Commercial, Telecommunications
- PQE Level
- 10+
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Work for an award winning business that works with two of the biggest players in the industry. A bright, talented legal team and excellent broad all encompassing work.
Client Details
Work for an award winning business that works with two of the biggest players in the industry. A bright, talented legal team and excellent broad all encompassing work. The company places a huge emphasis on its people and they have been pivitol to shaping the success.
Description
- Responsible for co-creating and delivering the Legal team's vision and agenda
- Responsible for ensuring excellent execution on a number of strategic procurement activities across the business - in terms of designing and refining systems and processes, proactively ensuring shareholder engagement, collaborating with senior colleagues, engaging with and assuring external counsel and providing trusted legal expertise, commercially savvy legal advice, skilled hands-on contractual drafting and dynamic negotiation with key suppliers and partners
- Understand risk, avoiding over lawyering / being a legal purist and adopting efficient, agile working practices.
- Responsible for managing, developing and empowering any direct reports as well as coaching and developing other lawyers in the team
- Manage resources appropriately. Hire the right people with the right attitudes, skills and behaviours.
- Manage the performance of the Legal team, drive high performance by setting stretching and challenging objectives. Continually review these and provide feedback on an on-going basis
- Be a true service provider - understand customers needs and encourage the Legal team to deliver a great service internally and externally
- Provide feedback and recognition across the whole organisation
- Manage employee relations issues as they arise (and proactively prevent them from occurring), using the People Team where appropriate.
- Challenge the status quo, keep abreast of the external market and use this to drive innovation, continuous improvements and learning
Profile
Shine: Be an ambassador for the organisation. Be courageous and resilient. Grow and stretch yourself, rise to the challenge
Collaborate: Be positive. Actively seek others out and build effective relationships. Have open, honest & transparent conversations
Deliver: Create a plan, regularly review and measure against that plan. Have a can-do attitude, learn from your experience
Lead: Create, innovate and inspire. Challenge the norm and bring people on the journey
- A current practising certificate and 10+ years pqe as a commercial lawyer ( solicitor or barrister) qualified to practice in England and Wales.
- Demonstrable and significant experience of drafting and negotiating complex commercial contracts and of complex stakeholder engagement in closing these contracts
- Demonstrable and significant experience of being the lead lawyer on multi million pound procurement and outsourcing deals
- A proven track record in leadership, creating positive climates, articulating a vision, managing change and inspiring people
- Experience of coaching and developing people to be their best
- An ability to build positive relationships and an understanding of organisational politics. An ability to use these to socialise and influence stakeholders
- An understanding of the health of the organisation and a passion for employee engagement.
- A proven track record in continuous improvement
Job Offer
Excellent work, team, salary and opportunity for the right candidate.