Legal Counsel: In-House Commercial Contracts Lawyer
- Employer
- Hays Legal
- Location
- Homeworking
- Salary
- £60000.0 - £85000.0 per annum + plus attractive benefits
- Closing date
- 4 Mar 2025
- Reference
- 4655196
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- Vacancy Type
- Solicitors, In-House
- Experience Level
- Junior Level, Mid Level
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Practice Areas
- Company/Commercial
- PQE
- 1-3 Years, 4-6 Years
Job Details

Your new company
This international company with a strong UK and European presence has an expanding legal team based in the Midlands. A newly created opportunity to join as legal counsel presents an excellent opportunity for a talented commercial lawyer to develop their skills in-house.
Your new role
You will join a high calibre and credible team providing a range of legal advice and support for both operational and corporate service departments. Your duties will include drafting and negotiating a range of commercial contracts including IT contracts, outsourcing arrangements, supplier agreements and cross-border interactions. You will work closely with Senior Legal Counsel and the General Counsel with a core focus on supporting with IT contracts. You will also be expected to support and sometimes lead on various legal projects.
What you'll need to succeed
You will be a UK qualified solicitor who is available to work onsite in the Midlands office on a hybrid basis, easily commutable from Coventry, Leicester, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwick, Birmingham, Solihull and Redditch. You must have good quality commercial contracts experience gained either in private practice or in-house and be willing to adapt and learn new areas of law to work effectively in a broad legal counsel role. You will ideally have trained with a well-regarded law firm or an established in-house department with hand-on experience dealing with IT contracts.
What you'll get in return
You will be offered a salary in line with your level of experience, within the £65k-£85k bracket, plus benefits. You'll enjoy exposure to a fast-paced, commercial environment, developing your skills in-house with a high-performing legal team where you will receive excellent supervision and support as you develop your legal skills in-house.
What you need to do now
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Company
Hays Legal provides an integrated recruitment solution to the UK's Legal and Company Secretarial sectors. Working across a nationwide network of offices, we offer employers and jobseekers a highly specialised recruitment service for permanent and interim positions across all business sectors, skill sets and levels of seniority.
We have a proven track record spanning almost 20 years in all areas of Legal and Company Secretarial recruitment, from one-off contingency requirements through to large-scale recruitment campaigns and wider employee management solutions.
We offer confidential, expert advice on job opportunities, compensation, business plans and exit strategies pertinent to professionals considering a move. We have the ear of key decision makers across all our clients and we have been instrumental in introducing and placing hundreds of fee earners and company secretaries into a vast array of organisations. From blue chip corporates, national and international firms through to niche practices, we have deep knowledge of the legal company secretary market.
If an organisation has strategic growth plans or needs incisive market analysis, we are often consulted as a first point of contact.
- Website
- https://www.hays.co.uk/job-search
- Telephone
- 020 3465 0139
- Location
-
107 Cheapside
London
EC2V 6DN
United Kingdom
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