Senior Legal Counsel

Looking to join a collaborative
and supportive team?

The
role of Senior Legal Counsel provides pragmatic, commercial and risk-based
legal advice to support the company’s technology, digital transformation,
outsourcing and managed services business. The role requires partnership with
the business to enable growth while managing legal, regulatory and reputational
risk.

This is a hybrid role with
occasional office presence required in our London office.

What you will be doing:

- Commercial Contracting - Draft, review and negotiate customer, supplier and partner agreements, supporting complex technology transactions.
- Technology and Regulatory Advice - Advising on technology law matters including safe adoption of AI tools, Intellectual property, Data protection and privacy and Cyber security.
- Procurement and Public Sector Support - Advising on public procurement law and procurement processes and supporting bids.
- Company Secretarial /Corporate Governance - Experience with company boards, minute taking, filings with Companies House, Corporate Governance (large private entity) and M&A
- Legal Department Operations - Self-service for business and Document standardisation
- Stakeholder Engagement - Build strong relationships with business leaders across sales, procurement, delivery, finance, HR, security and operations and participate in commercial and operational decision making.
- Governance and Risk Management - Identifying and managing legal and regulatory risks and supporting corporate governance initiatives.

What you’ll bring:

- Qualified
to practise law in the UK or in another common law jurisdiction,
- Registered
Lawyer with at least four years’ experience
- Experience
of technology and / or digital transformation is essential.
- General
commercial legal counsel experience
- Previous experience of legal practice involving public sector contracts is desirable.
- Excellent stakeholder management, including
internal clients, opposition stakeholders and external supporting law
firms.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and
experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to
hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

Location: Hybrid, occasional London visits
Security Clearance Level: SC
Internal Recruiter: Adrian
Salary: Competitive depending on experience
Benefits: £6,600 car allowance, bonus, 25 days annual leave with the
option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and
generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we
believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your
motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support
different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working
arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage
you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

We are a purpose driven digital transformation provider, creating
innovative digital solutions to help clients drive their digital transformation
projects and secure tangible and sustainable benefits. We harness the power of
innovation to drive positive change in both business and society, delivering
sustainable growth and services which make life better, from effective
frontline citizen services, to digitising financial services, utilities, and
delivering smarter roads.

We place people at the heart of everything we do and are committed
to working with our customers, partners and suppliers to shape a better world
and add real and lasting social value to the communities in which we work.

Together we are building a better future by delivering real and
lasting value.

We are just at the start of what we can achieve together. Come and
join us!