Commercial Contracts Lawyer

Gallagher; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in insurance and risk management is seeking an experienced Solicitor to join their Legal team in the UK. This role involves managing a diverse portfolio of commercial contracts, providing strategic legal advice, and ensuring compliance with industry regulations. Ideal candidates will be qualified solicitors with experience in the insurance sector. A competitive salary and comprehensive benefits are included.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Defined contribution pension scheme

Life insurance up to 10x salary

Health cash plan or Private medical insurance

Employee Stock Purchase plan

Discounted gym membership

Qualifications

• Qualified solicitor with experience in commercial contracts.
• Experience within the Insurance sector is highly desirable.
• Eligible to work in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Act as the Legal lead on material commercial and regulatory arrangements.
• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of contracts including NDAs.
• Provide legal counsel on regulatory and legal change programmes.

Skills

Experience in commercial contracts

Knowledge of FCA regulations

Problem-solving

Strong communication skills

Ability to influence stakeholders

Education

Qualified solicitor

Job description

Overview

Are you a qualified solicitor with a passion for commercial contracts and a knack for managing legal risk? Gallagher, a global leader in insurance brokerage and risk management, is seeking a talented Solicitor to join our Legal team. This role offers the opportunity to work on a diverse portfolio of commercial contracts, provide strategic legal advice, and contribute to transformational projects across the UK and EMEA.

As a Solicitor in our Commercial Contracts team, you will play a key role in supporting Gallagher’s insurance broking and risk management businesses. You will be responsible for drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of contracts, including NDAs, Client Services Agreements, Insurer TOBAs, Delegated Authority Agreements, and more. You will also act as a legal representative on regulatory and legal change programmes, ensuring that Gallagher remains compliant and competitive in a fast-evolving industry.

This role can be based in any of our Gallagher offices across the UK on a hybrid basis.

How you\'ll make an impact

• Act as the Legal lead on material commercial and regulatory arrangements, aligning legal review with business objectives.
• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of contracts, including NDAs, Client Services Agreements, Insurer TOBAs, Delegated Authority Agreements, and more.
• Provide legal counsel on regulatory and legal change programmes, representing the Commercial Contracts team in transformational projects.
• Manage a high volume of contract matters across the UK and EMEA, ensuring timely and effective delivery.
• Collaborate with external counsel, managing engagement and budgets as needed.
• Deliver legal training to trainees, paralegals, and non-lawyers, fostering a culture of legal awareness.
• Develop legal templates, playbooks, and efficiency initiatives to enhance service delivery.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, including senior management, across Gallagher’s businesses in the UK and EMEA.

About You

• Qualified solicitor with experience in commercial contracts.
• Experience within the Insurance sector is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of the FCA regulations.
• Proven ability to influence internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and commercial awareness skills.
• Eligible to work in the UK.

Compensation and benefits

On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to buy extra days
• Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to
• Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x
• Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up
• Health cash plan or Private medical insurance

Other benefits include:

• Three fully paid volunteering days per year
• Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount
• Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan
• Critical illness cover
• Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally
• Season ticket loan
• Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase
• Emergency back-up family care
• And many more…

We value inclusion and diversity

Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long-term health conditions or disabilities.

We understand that applicants may have disabilities; if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.

Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with the Gallagher Global Support team. If you’d prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch.

Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on protected characteristics by applicable laws. Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.