Commercial & Legal Contracts Manager

ZipRecruiter; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading industrial machinery business is seeking a Commercial & Legal Contracts Manager to oversee all legal contracts for their UK operations. The role includes managing contract lifecycles, engaging with various internal stakeholders, and mitigating legal risks. Candidates should possess expertise in B2B legal contracts and have relevant qualification with a competitive salary of c.£60,000 - £65,000 plus benefits. This position offers a hybrid working model, with 2 days remote each week.

Benefits

Car option

Benefits package

Qualifications

• Expert in B2B legal contract review, drafting, and negotiation.
• Proven experience in contractual ownership and risk mitigation.
• Ability to engage with finance and technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage the legal contracts lifecycle including review, drafting, and negotiation.
• Maintain and update all contractual templates.
• Advise on contractual risk and commercial issues.

Skills

B2B Contract Review and Negotiation

Legal Risk Mitigation

Stakeholder Engagement

Contract Management

Education

Law / Business Degree or Equivalent

Relevant Professional Qualification (IACCM/WorldCC)

Job description

Overview

A UK market leading, £300m+ industrial machinery/equipment business seeks a Commercial & Legal Contracts Manager to lead all legal contracts aspects for their UK rental, lease and service business units.

Salary – c.£60000 - £65000 + car option + benefits

Location – Hybrid c. 2 days p/w WFH + 3 days p/w Berkshire HQ office

Type – Permanent

The Commercial & Legal Contracts Manager will join a globally recognised brand group within a specific UK subsidiary which has seen huge growth in both revenue and profitability in the last few years, positioning it as the market leader in its field.

This role will have a particular focus across the sales, rental and leasing side of the business and be the subject matter expert for all contractual and commercial legal issues within. You will have responsibility for one CCM team member, report directly to the BU director and have dotted line support from the group’s European legal team.

An opportunity suited to a Commercial Contracts Manager / Legal Contracts Manager able to be the business's UK SME for all legal contractual matters, mitigating legal risk while enabling commercial solutions.

Responsibilities

• Management and hands of ownership of the legal contracts lifecycle (review, drafting, negotiation, adherence, SLA’s and all wider related documentation such as NDA’s at pre & post award stages)
• Maintaining and updating all contractual templates and centralised documentation management/storage
• Leading non-standard T&C’s review, negotiation and drafting (Sales & Supply sides)
• Advise on contractual risk and commercial issues from bid/tender to post award stages
• Post award contractual SLA, extension, termination and claims management (with liaison with 3rd parties as required)
• Support of wider commercial and legal issues including GDPR, HR, Real Estate/Property
• Liaison with European group level legal team to update, implement and flow down relevant legislation, policy, compliance and commercial changes

Qualifications

• Likely Law / Business degree and/or relevant professional qualification such as IACCM/WorldCC
• Expert knowledge in the review, drafting and negotiation of B2B legal contracts T&C’s (sales, supply and ancillary legal doc’s such as NDA’s)
• Proven experience of contractual ownership, ensuring legal risk/liability mitigation and commercial enablement/advantage maximisation
• Ability to partner and converse with sales, procurement, finance and technical internal stakeholder groups
• Negotiation engagement with B2B customers and suppliers
• Owning contractual templates, including drafting amendment and updating where necessary
• Management, support, mentoring of contracts/legal specialist team members a benefit
• Experience of B2B machinery/equipment/technology industries with rental and lease arms, a benefit (not mandatory)

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