Legal Counsel
Rolls-royce, Cheetham Hill, Manchester
Legal Counsel
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Rolls-royce, Cheetham Hill, Manchester
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 3 weeks ago, 3 Jul | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
Job ref: 971ceeb1da204d3d82f49af49c35ca61
Location ref: Cheetham Hill, Manchester
Full Job Description
- Working with the Senior Legal Counsel and Head of Legal to draft and prepare broad range of Supply Chain agreements including for design and engineering services, partnering future supply contracts and arrangements, and licensing and confidentiality agreements in support of the Business's industrialisation and supply chain strategies.
- Providing, as directed, legal counsel and guidance to internal stakeholders on contractual matters, including identifying and mitigating legal risk and ensuring compliance with the Business's internal governance framework and laws and regulations.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams such as supply chain, procurement, commercial, finance and/or engineering/programme/operations, to ensure contractual terms align with business objectives, draft and negotiate favourable terms, and resolve contract-related disputes in a timely and efficient manner.
- Drafting legal documents, policies, procedures and correspondence including template contracts, NDAs and data addendums, document preparation for closing and signing, proofreading and document review.
- Reviewing contracts, including documenting key contractual clauses and summarising key legal risks, preparing legal research including presenting findings and preparation of presentations (including PowerPoint), minutes, spreadsheets and reports.
We are seeking a qualified Commercial Lawyer with demonstrable post-qualification experience to join our team. This role involves drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial agreements, including standard terms of business, NDAs, MoUs, preliminary transaction agreements, and bespoke services and supply-side agreements. Ideally, you will have experience working in-house or on secondment and be capable of quickly integrating into a small legal team providing comprehensive legal support to a rapidly expanding and dynamic civil nuclear business involving across development, engineering, and design activities for SMR technology., - Qualified lawyer with the right to work and eligible to practice in the UK.
- Good academic credentials and post-qualification experience.
- Excellent drafting and negotiation skills across a broad range of commercial agreements.
- Strong commercial understanding, pragmatic approach, and outstanding interpersonal skills., Obtaining Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance
- Satisfactory completion of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
- Satisfactory completion of a basic financial probity check
Direct job link
https://www.jobs24.co.uk/job/legal-counsel-127065336