Interim Legal Counsel

Michael Page Legal; Northampton; Hybrid; GBP 83,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

Michael Page Legal is handling an interim opportunity for an experienced Interim Legal Counsel to join a household name in Northamptonshire on an immediate 2 to 3 month assignment.

The role focuses on a backlog of commercial contracts and providing broader legal support across the organisation, with a hybrid pattern requiring 1 to 2 days in the office each week.

Qualifications

• Solicitor with substantial post-qualification experience.
• Experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts.
• Ability to assess contractual risk and provide pragmatic advice to stakeholders.
• In-house charity/regulatory exposure is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Taking ownership of a backlog of commercial contracts and agreements across the organisation, drafting, reviewing and negotiating a broad range of supplier and operational contracts
• Providing practical legal advice on commercial relationships, tenders, contractual risk, disputes, licensing, funding, sponsorship and other business agreements
• Supporting wider legal team with commercial property matters including leases, renewals, licences, assignments, disposals and property projects where experience allows
• Advising senior stakeholders on legal risk, governance, regulatory compliance and emerging legal developments
• Supporting broader matters including data protection, healthcare regulation, charity law, complaints, regulatory issues and contract management where required

Skills

Commercial contracts

Contract negotiation

Legal drafting

Regulatory awareness

In-house experience

Stakeholder communication

Education

Solicitor qualification

Job description

An excellent opportunity for an experienced Interim Legal Counsel to join a household name in Northamptonshire on an immediate 2 to 3 month assignment. The initial focus will be working through a backlog of commercial contracts and agreements, alongside providing broader legal support across the organisation.

This is a full time hybrid role requiring 1 to 2 days per week in the office.

Client Details

Our client is a large, purpose led charity operating across a diverse and complex organisation. Its legal team supports a wide variety of operational, commercial, property, governance and regulatory matters, giving the successful lawyer excellent exposure to senior stakeholders and genuinely varied work.

This is an opportunity to use your commercial legal expertise within an organisation where the work has a clear wider purpose and where pragmatic, commercially minded advice is highly valued.

Description

The Interim Legal Counsel will be:

• Taking ownership of a backlog of commercial contracts and agreements across the organisation, drafting, reviewing and negotiating a broad range of supplier and operational contracts
• Providing practical legal advice on commercial relationships, tenders, contractual risk, disputes, licensing, funding, sponsorship and other business agreements
• Supporting the wider legal team with commercial property matters including leases, renewals, licences, assignments, disposals and property projects where experience allows
• Advising senior stakeholders on legal risk, governance, regulatory compliance and emerging legal developments
• Supporting broader matters including data protection, healthcare regulation, charity law, complaints, regulatory issues and contract management where required

Profile

The Interim Legal Counsel should be:

• A solicitor or equivalent with substantial post qualification experience
• An experienced commercial contracts lawyer who can independently draft, review and negotiate a broad range of agreements
• Able to quickly assess contractual risk, prioritise a busy workload and provide clear, pragmatic advice to non legal stakeholders
• Ideally experienced within an in house legal team, charity, healthcare, public sector or similarly regulated organisation
• Additional experience across commercial property, charity law, governance, regulatory matters or healthcare would be highly advantageous
• Immediately available or able to start at very short notice

Job Offer

This is an immediate 2 to 3 month interim opportunity offering a varied workload within a highly regarded national charity.

The role provides hybrid working with only 1 to 2 days per week in the office and the chance to take ownership of a substantial commercial contracts workload while also gaining exposure to a much broader in house legal remit.