Contracts Manager - Legal

Brush Transformers; Loughborough; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic contracts manager to join their legal team. This role offers the chance to lead contract reviews and support compliance initiatives within the power distribution sector. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in contract law, particularly within construction and energy, and possess excellent negotiation and relationship-building skills. With a focus on collaboration across departments, this position provides opportunities for professional growth and influence within the organization. If you're ready to embrace a challenging role and contribute to impactful projects, this is the opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 10+ years PQE as a solicitor in construction/energy or a contracts manager with legal skills.
• Proactive attitude with strong negotiation and relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Review and negotiate contracts with customers and suppliers in the energy and construction sectors.
• Collaborate on compliance initiatives and support legal issues within the business.

Skills

Contract Law

Negotiation Skills

Relationship Building

Compliance Knowledge

Attention to Detail

Education

UK Qualified Solicitor (10 years PQE)

Contracts Manager with Legal Skills

Job description

About The Role

Job Summary:

We are currently seeking a contracts manager to support our business within the UK. This position will be based at the offices of our Switchgear business based in Blackwood, S Wales. Flexible working of up to two days from home will be considered. Equally the successful candidate may be required to travel to other BRUSH locations including Loughborough, Leicestershire from time to time.

We require, first and foremost, a commercial contracts manager who has ideally had experience within construction and energy environments and is familiar with NEC and other model terms and conditions for those industries. The successful candidate will lead on all local contract reviews and support our power distribution businesses with other legal and compliance activities.

This position sits within the Group Legal & Compliance function providing general and project support to the Group Legal Director who is based in the St Neots, Cambs office, as well assisting our Group Compliance Manager with embedding compliance initiatives within the business.

Key Responsibilities:

This is an excellent opportunity for either a commercial contracts manager or a qualified in-house lawyer who wants to embrace a challenging role at an interesting time for our business. Success in this role will lead to wider opportunities within the business allowing the individual to grow with and influence the business.

• Contract review. The review, analysis and negotiation of business contracts with customers, suppliers and other third parties. Our customers and suppliers are part of the energy and construction industries and we supply both power products and undertake maintenance services to this group.
• Compliance Integration. The role will be expected to collaborate with the Group Compliance Manager and be accountable for the continued integration of Group compliance policies within the Power Distribution business.
• The role extends to supporting the balance of the Power Distribution business with generic legal issues from disputes and litigation through to property, intellectual property and insurance matters.
• In addition to working in a collaborative and collegiate fashion across the business, with key stakeholders such as finance, sales, tendering and project management the role will form part of the Brush Group L&C Department and report into the Group Legal Director. They will be involved in department projects and discussions of an L&C nature.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Experience & Skills:

Qualifications

• Either (i) A UK qualified solicitor having at least 10 years PQE who has worked within the construction and/or energy industry – preferably in an in-house role; or
• (ii) A contracts manager who has rounded legal skills and experience and again, has a construction and/or energy background.

Skills

• The breadth of this new role demands a proactive person with a ‘can do’ attitude who is resilient and uses their initiative and common sense. They will need to be good at influencing and relationship building and a ‘detailed’ person.

Knowledge

• In order to be successful in this position you will require a good technical knowledge of contract law as well as be commercially aware.
• Any additional legal or compliance experience would be beneficial in this role.

Experience

• Relevant experience of working in a commercial/construction department in private practice or in-house. The perfect applicant might have a ‘blended’ experience of both private practice and in-house contracts experience within the energy or construction sectors.

About The Company

BRUSH Switchgear provide agile and adaptive engineering solutions and products, including consultancy services, design, and project management as well as award-winning product technology, to a wide range of projects.

A chosen partner for national and regional power generation and distribution network operators, through innovation and a commitment to delivering solutions that address grid-resilience and drive system change, we support the global drive to net-zero, helping create a future-proof Infrastructure.