Commercial Lawyer

You will be working for a multinational engineering and manufacturing organisation with a strong global presence, supplying high-quality industrial components and solutions tocustomers across a range of sectors including automotive, infrastructure, medical,and industrial manufacturing. Serving thousands of customers worldwide, the business is recognised for its commitment to quality, innovation, and operational excellence.

This role is a Commercial Lawyer role, reporting to the General Counsel. You will be a partof a small and high-performing team, and you will be joining at an exciting andtransformative time for this organisation. Some key responsibilities below;

• Act as the primary legal contact for commercial, sales, procurement, and contractual matters
• Support contract negotiations, resolve commercial issues, and escalate risks where appropriate.
• Deliver legal andcommercial training to internal stakeholders.
• Manage relationships with external legal counsel and coordinate contracted legal services.
• Maintain awareness of evolving business and legal requirements, ensuring stakeholders remain informed.
• Own and manage legal service processes, including playbooks, templates, and legal technology platforms.
• Lead communication andknowledge sharing across the legal delivery team to support consistency andbest practice.

What you’ll need to succeed

• Qualified solicitor in England and Wales (or commonwealth) with a guideline of 2+ PQE
• Experience with legal services, preferable in-house
• Commercial contracts experience, including advising on, drafting, negotiating, and managing high-value customer contracts, ideally with exposure to international agreements and foreign jurisdictions.
• Strong negotiation, communication, and relationship management skills, with the ability toinfluence stakeholders and build effective working relationships at all levels.
• Technology-enabled legal services expertise, including an interest in legal technology andexperience with case management, workflow, and document automation tools.

This is a newly created role and gives the individual the ability to really mould the role into their own, you will receive a competitive salary, along with various other benefits. You will also be working within a listed environment and haveexposure to some high profile work as a result of this.

Although London is the preference, other locations will be considered. Remote options will also be considered.

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