Senior Legal Counsel

Join this innovative company as their Senior Legal Counsel and satiate your curiosity by working as an in-house solicitor for a truly flexible business. This Sussex-based team’s looking for someone with strong commercial acumen to flex their legal prowess and embrace the fast-paced dynamism of working in-house.
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Are you an experienced commercial solicitor looking to take a step away from private practice? Perhaps you’re already working in-house, but you’ve hit a wall and feel like branching out to something more engaging. This Senior Legal Counsel role will enable you to utilise your experience in a new and progressive context.
Our client is a market-leading company with offices in Manchester, Haywards Heath, London, and abroad. As Senior Legal Counsel, you will support their General Counsel by dealing with all aspects of commercial contracts, demonstrating your project management skills, and advising various stakeholders in the business.
This is a business that thrives on people; they’re focused on ensuring their clients experience first-class service from happy staff that benefit from real flexible working practices and a brilliant company culture. Help shape this company’s legal function and play your own part in the trajectory of their success.
The role will include:
Reviewing, negotiating, and drafting all manner of agreements, including investment deals (both loans and security), software agreements, data and service agreements, procurement contracts, and the occasional lease
Dealing with sporadic queries from across the business
Working closely with key stakeholders
Ideally, you will have:
At least
5 years
of post-qualification experience as a commercial or corporate lawyer
A desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic team
Strong communication skills and the ability to advocate across all levels of the organisation
Familiarity working with a regulated market would be advantageous.
This company recognises that the boundary between home and work is often blurred, so their benefits reflect this. They’re committed to celebrating their employees and encourage them to make the most of benefits such as private medical insurance, a performance-based bonus, and a wellbeing platform in order to bring their true selves to work.
Please get in touch if you have any questions regarding
reasonable adjustments and accommodations.
Based outside of Sussex?
They’re true to their word when it comes to flexibility and are happy to discuss the possibility of working remotely with a couple of office days per month.
Contact the Legal Team –
Hayley Rose
or
Chloë
– at Harvey John for more information.