Commercial Lawyer

Commercial Lawyer

As our business continues to grow from strength to strength, we are looking for a corporate/commercial lawyer with both contentious and non-contentious experience to join our small but dynamic legal team. You will be responsible for drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts, in-house legal advice, providing legal opinions, manage compliances, intellectual property matters, litigation etc. You will be based at Tata Technologies European Headquarters in Coventry.

Key Responsibilities:

-Leading and supporting all legal aspects for negotiating on a wide variety of contractual and commercial matters, including drafting, strategy, risk and mitigation analysis, and internal reviews, in particular outsourcing contracts (vendor and customer);

-Prepare and give training to the business teams and update legal precedents;

-Respond with a sense of urgency to questions and problems escalated to the Legal Team;

-Educate company executives in regard to legal and risk management issues;

-Develop and review internal guidelines, policies and processes on various legal and business issues;

-Develop subject matter expertise in one of more areas that benefit Legal and/or our business;

-Support, promote and implement Legal Team global initiatives;

-Provide legal advice on regulatory matters (eg Data Protection, Export Control, Supplier Management) striving to protect the company's legal interests in accordance with corporate policies;

-Assist in managing the contracting process ensuring compliance with contract specifications and resolution of any problems or issues.

-Keep up to date on changes in corporate law.

-Management of Legal MIS and other reports

-Knowledge of litigation management and employment tribunals

-Coordinate and work within the global Legal Team

-You will be expected to demonstrate an ability to manage your own workload but work effectively and efficiently with other members of the globally dispersed Legal Team.

-Strong communication skills are therefore essential.

Key Relationships:

-You will be on site legal counsel, and therefore being able to interact with a multi-national legal team.

-Sales, HR and Marketing.

Candidate Profile

-The candidate will be a UK qualified lawyer with PQE experience in contract and commercial law, preferably in-house within the outsourcing industry but suitable candidates with strong relevant legal skills from either an in-house background or a private practice background will be considered;

-Strong communication and negotiation skills and experience in dealing with internal and external customers and suppliers;

-Ability to work under pressure and prioritise heavy and variable workload;

-Proven accuracy and attention to detail;

-Proactive and hands-on approach;

-Enthusiastic and hard-working;

-Ability to work as part of a global team;

-Excellent communication skills;

-Confidence and gravitas to persuade and influence people;

-Ability to deal with ambiguity;

-Good communication skills and good team player