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About the Role
As a Senior Commercial Legal Counsel within our Office of General Counsel, you will manage and deliver core support to service lines by drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, leading stakeholder relationships, and collaborating with other teams on legal issues. You will also manage and develop the team, act as a subject matter expert, and help protect the firm while enabling excellent client service.
Responsibilities
- Manage and deliver core support to service lines: drafting and negotiating commercial contracts with key clients, including master services agreements and public-sector framework agreements, and key suppliers, subcontractors and third parties, ensuring risks are appropriately identified and managed
- Lead relationships with key stakeholders across given service lines and support functions
- Work cross-functionally with the firm’s other Quality and Risk teams, client-facing partners and staff on legal issues and emerging risks faced by the firm’s business
- Manage and develop the team to maximise performance and realise potential, actively seeking to improve ways of working (e.g. augmenting legal advice delivery via AI tools)
- Act as a decision maker, a subject matter expert for core areas of expertise, an escalation point for junior team members, supervising junior team members where required
- Help protect the firm whilst enabling it to deliver excellent services to our clients
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer with significant commercial contracting experience gained within a regulated professional services business
- Extensive experience of the legal and risk management issues faced by professional services businesses
- Experience of supplier-side public sector contracting
- Knowledge of adjacent areas of law, such as data protection, intellectual property etc.
- Proven track record of collaborating effectively with related teams/functions (e.g. procurement, financial crime, ethics, data office)
- A pragmatic and commercial, solutions-based approach
- A self-starting attitude and the ability to manage conflicting demands
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the drafting of contractual terms
Skills
- Commercial contracting
- Legal and risk management
- Supplier-side public sector contracting
- Data protection
- Intellectual property
- Collaboration
- Pragmatic and commercial approach
- Solutions-based approach
- Self-starting
- Managing conflicting demands
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
- Contractual drafting
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Flexible working
- Reduced hours
- Job shares
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Qualified lawyer
Benefits
- Reward, benefits and leave policies detailed on website
About the Company
- Grant Thornton UK LLP is part of a global network of independent audit, tax and advisory firms, made up of some 58,000 people in over 135 countries.
- We're a team of independent thinkers who put quality, inclusion and integrity first.
- We empower clients through strategic insight, curiosity, and genuine partnership.
- We empower our people with real opportunity, an inclusive culture and work life balance.
- The Office of General Counsel is Grant Thornton UK’s legal function, comprising two sub teams – Disputes and Contracts.
- The Contracts Team works with all of GT’s service lines and business functions to enable growth whilst managing risk across all our commercial relationships.
- We work closely with our client-facing colleagues to help deliver the best outcomes for our firm and our clients.
- Our culture thrives on the contributions of all our people; we never settle for what is easy, we look beyond to deliver the right thing, for everyone.
- Building an inclusive culture where we value difference and respect our colleagues helps our people to perform at the best of their ability and realise their potential.
- Our open and accessible culture means you’ll interact with leaders who are interested in you and everything you bring to our firm.
- We’re also committed to supporting you through different life stages, with a range of family friendly and wider leave policies.
- Life is more than work. The things you do, and the people you’re with outside of work matter.
- From secondments, to fundraising for local charities, or investing in entrepreneurs in the developing world, you’ll be giving back to society.
- Our firm’s values – purposefully driven, actively curious and candid but kind.