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About the Role
As a Commercial Legal Counsel within our Office of General Counsel, you will draft and negotiate commercial contracts with key clients and suppliers, work cross-functionally on legal issues, advise on various commercial contracting matters, stay updated on contract law and professional liability, and leverage AI tools to protect the firm while enabling excellent client service.
Responsibilities
- Draft and negotiate commercial contracts with key clients, including master services agreements and public-sector framework agreements, ensuring risks are identified, considered and mitigated.
- Draft and negotiate commercial contracts with suppliers, subcontractors and third parties (collaboration, reseller, sponsorship agreements etc.) to support the firm’s growth.
- Work cross-functionally with the firm’s Quality and Risk teams, client-facing partners and staff on legal issues faced within the firm’s various service lines.
- Advise on a wide range of other commercial contracting issues, including international contracts, data-sharing agreements, secondment agreements, and software supply contracts.
- Keep a close eye on the law relating to contracts and professional liability, share knowledge with the team and deliver training to relevant parts of the firm, and help us leverage AI tools for our work.
- Help protect the firm whilst enabling it to deliver excellent services to our clients.
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer with commercial contracting experience.
- An understanding of professional services businesses and risk management issues faced by them.
- 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.
- Knowledge of adjacent areas of law, such as data protection, intellectual property etc.
Skills
- Commercial contracting
- Risk management
- Solutions-based approach
- Self-starting
- Managing conflicting demands
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
- Contractual drafting
- Data protection law
- Intellectual property law
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Flexible working
- Reduced hours
- Job shares
Experience Level
- Qualified lawyer
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.
Equal Opportunity
- Embracing uniqueness, the culture at Grant Thornton 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.
- The things that set you apart, we value them.
- That’s why we give you the freedom to bring your whole self to work and pursue your passions inside and outside of work.
- 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, that’s why we’re happy to look at flexible working options for all our roles, and we’ll always do our best to keep your work and life in balance.
- The impact you can make here will go far beyond your day job.
- From secondments, to fundraising for local charities, or investing in entrepreneurs in the developing world, you’ll be giving back to society.
- It’s that drive to do the right thing that runs through our every move, grounded in our firm’s values – purposefully driven, actively curious and candid but kind.
- We’re looking for people who want to contribute, spark fresh ideas and go beyond expectations.
- People who want to be able to proudly do what’s right, for the firm, our clients, our people and themselves.
- It’s how it should be.