Legal Counsel (Commercial)
- Recruiter
- Chadwick Nott (London)
- Location
- England, London
- Salary
- Negotiable
- Posted
- 30 Mar 2023
- Closes
- 27 Apr 2023
- Ref
- CGJ921949855
- Contact
- Chris Goodman
- Job Title
- In House Counsel
- Practice Area
- Commercial Contracts, Company / Commercial
- Contract Type
- Temporary
- Hours
- Full Time
I'm working with an IT and Tech business who are looking to hire a Commercial Legal Counsel on an initial 6 month basis.
The successful candidate would have the following responsibilities:
- Supporting the sales teams across various divisions
- Manage a high volume of deals and ensuring consistency with commercial and pricing policies.
- Manage sales deals throughout the sales cycle, bid stage and contract finalisation.
- Review, draft and negotiate partnership agreements, licence distribution agreements, contract variations, licensing agreements and confidentiality agreements and provide advice to the relevant Project and Sales Managers
- Review supplier contracts
- Create templates and other internal materials to enhance contract risk management across the businesses.
- Provide advice to stakeholders.
- Help to ensure that contracting activities are carried out in accordance with legislation.
Skills and Experience:
- Minimum 4 years of relevant experience in commercial contracts, working in private practice and / or in-house.
- Excellent skills drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial contracts.
- Experience in in SaaS contracts would be desirable.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and influence a wide number of senior stakeholders to drive excellent outcomes for the business.
This would be a hybrid role requiring 2 days a week from the London office.
Day rate circa £450-£500 a day, PAYE rate available upon enquiry.
If you feel you have the skills and experience to be suitable for this role please send your CV for consideration.
*Where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.
Chadwick Nott Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.