JOB SUMMARY

JOB TITLE: In-house Lawyer

PQE REQUIRED: 10 + years

LOCATION: West Midlands (Hybrid)

SALARY: £80K - 110K + car allowance + bonus

THE ROLE

The In-house Lawyer will work closely with the Board, Executive Leadership team as well as internal and external stakeholders. Driving strategic and tactical legal decision making and supporting all areas of the business on general legal matters. This will include:

• Providing expert advice and oversight of the key aspects of the business and the related company agreements, for example concession deed, financing including debt raising, key operational contracts.
• Providing advice in relation to ongoing operational matters such as procurement and contracting matters and oversight over employment contract matters.
• Major project contracts and overseeing compliance to the contracts and potential disputes.
• Leading contractual disputes.
• Drafting and / or review of contracts.
• Providing oversight to ensure compliance to key contracts and regulations, for example Environmental Law and Safety.

THE CANDIDATE

The successful Lawyer will have proven post qualifying experience (in excess of c10years PQE), together with in-house experience in a generalist capacity.

• Demonstrable experience in identifying and mitigating/harnessing risks and opportunities.
• Experienced in partnering with business partners, including finance, sales, HR, product strategy, sustainability, marketing and business operations across a wide range of stakeholders.
• In-house experience with proven strong drafting, communication, and excellent organisational skills;
• Excellent interpersonal skills, optimistic in outlook, confidence and passion to build effective working relationships and partner with the business;
• Ability to demonstrate a pro-active and commercial approach in identifying solutions and mitigating risk in a manner which supports business objectives;
• Experience with JCT / NEC contracts

HOW TO APPLY

Contact Pasquale Agatiello at eNL on 0121 454 1004 for a confidential discussion or email Pasquale.agatiello@enllegal.co.uk attaching your most up to date CV.

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As part of our candidate care process, we aim to respond to all applications in 7 days. If you have not been contacted within this timescale, your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please note our advertisements use PQE/salary levels purely as a guide. At eNL we value diversity and inclusion. We want to attract people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristics protected by law in the jurisdictions in which we operate.