In House Solicitor

Our client is looking to recruit a Contracts Commercial Lawyer to join their small legal team to provide specialist legal support to our clients and projects across their professional services business.

Client Details

Our client provides a Neutral Vendor solution for the procurement, contract and performance management of Specialist Professional Services within the public sector.

Description

The key responsibilities for the role are to include;

• Provides an expert legal service in commercial law for both sales and supply side agreements.
• Acts as general legal counsel to senior management team and operational teams.
• Develops standards for terms and conditions for sales agreements, frameworks, call offs, work orders and supplier service agreements - ensuring that the clients legal position is not compromised and that client terms are back-to-back with supplier terms.
• Negotiates legal contractual terms with clients and suppliers to ensure best possible outcome, whilst supporting business growth and new opportunities.
• Reviews legal risk in existing agreements and highlights actions required to reduce risk in contracts.
• Offers legal support whilst retaining a commercial perspective to ensure issue resolution - providing options and implications for each.
• Manages resolution of legal disputes and works pro-actively to minimise future legal issues.
• Liaises with external legal bodies as appropriate to obtain specialist legal advice.
• To keep up to date with developments in law, legal practice and relevant changes in practice and procedure.

Profile

Our client is recruiting for a candidate with ideally 5 years plus PQE commercial/contract experience preferably in-house across public sector, commercial enterprise, or in practice. You will be a self-starter who enjoys working in a fast paced 'dynamic' environment and deliver key objectives in timely manner. The role requires a confident and assertive individual who offers good commercial awareness, with experience of working in a commercial contract space who can use their legal skills to work closely with key business clients, across all jurisdictions, on a day to day basis.

Job Offer

The level of salary will be commensurate with level of PQE. If you may be interested in this role or another in house role in the N East, N West or Yorkshire please call Susan McNulty on 0796 7751440 or email her.