Junior Legal Counsel

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Mitie as a Junior Legal Counsel and gain hands-on experience in a dynamic work environment. You will support the Projects business units with legal needs, negotiate contracts, and ensure compliance with governance processes. This role offers a chance to develop professionally while contributing to critical national infrastructure projects.

Benefits

Flexible lifestyle benefits platform

High street discounts

Cycle-to-work scheme

Enhanced pension contributions

Mitie Stars recognition program

Qualifications

• Experience in projects and construction law, including familiarity with standard form construction contracts.
• Ability to multi-task and work well under pressure.
• Commitment to excellence in client service.

Responsibilities

• Review new business opportunities and negotiate construction contracts.
• Promote compliance with governance and approval processes.
• Support the development of legal training exercises.

Skills

Communication

Negotiation

Influencing

Education

Professional qualification as a Solicitor

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Sharepoint

Job description

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About Mitie

Mitie is the UK's leading facilities management and professional services company. We manage and maintain some of the nation's most recognised landmarks and work with a wide range of blue-chip private and public sector clients. Our expertise, care, technology, insight and focus on sustainability create amazing work environments, helping our customers to be exceptional, every day.

The Mitie Projects Division delivers transformational projects for Mitie's FM clients and others, in the fields of e.g. data centre construction and fit out, design and build projects, mechanical and electrical critical infrastructure projects, design commissions, fabric services, fire protection, M&E, solar PV, and high voltage and electrical works (among others). See here Engineering Project Management | Turnkey Solutions | Mitie for more details of the breadth and variety of the Mitie Projects businesses.

The role:We are looking for a proactive junior legal counsel who is keen to learn and develop real hands-on experience in a varied work environment supporting the Projects business units with their day-to-day legal needs. A clear commercial approach, enthusiasm and a flexible and questioning attitude are the key requirements - as well as some commercial contract negotiation experience.

Why Join Us?

• Exceptional Environments: Help us ensure that critical national infrastructure runs efficiently and safely, allowing our customers to provide exceptional services.
• Dynamic Work Culture: Be part of a team that values integrity, trust, diversity, and going the extra mile.
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Review new business opportunities, advise on and negotiate various forms of construction contracts, and identify and work with the business units to develop strategies to manage risks and mitigations.
• Promote compliance with Mitie's governance and approval processes.
• Support the development of and the rollout of legal training exercises within the division.
• Collaborate with other members of the legal team to support the development and implementation of strategy and policies.
• Build and maintain strong relationships to provide timely and commercial legal support.
• To provide swift support on other legal and commercial issues as they arise such as termination of contracts, payment issues and other formal and informal dispute related matters, working closely with, finance, commercial and operations directors within the business and taking the lead on legal decisions concerning those matters.
• Assist with the development and maintenance of a reliable, and comprehensive precedent bank to enable standard documents to be prepared, adapted and produced quickly.
• Instructing and managing external legal advisers ensuring advice received is concise, constructive and commercially appropriate.
• Supporting other members of the Projects Legal team where required.
  
  

Essential

What we are looking for:

• Professional qualification as a Solicitor
• Experience in projects and construction law, including familiarity with standard form construction contracts such as JCT, NEC and/or FIDIC, or other experience in drafting, negotiating and advising on complex commercial contracts
• A commitment to excellence in client service with a pragmatic approach and the ability to give concise legal advice
• Good influencing and communication skills
• Ability to multi task, work well under pressure and to use own initiative
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite and Sharepoint
  
  

Desirable

• Experience of a fast paced in-house legal function
• Experience of instructing/managing external legal services providers
• Dispute resolution experience (although this is a predominantly non-contentious role)
  
  

Location

We would prefer candidates based within a commutable distance of Manchester. Travel within the UK will be required to attend negotiations/meet key stakeholders. Flexible working arrangements may be available to the successful candidate.

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Shabana Randall at [e-mail].

Since 1987, Mitie’s 72,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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