Lawyer - Group Legal, Group Operations & Commercial Legal (FTC)

Lloyds Banking Group; Gildersome; Hybrid; GBP 87,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK bank is seeking a qualified Lawyer to join their Group Operations & Commercial Legal team on a fixed-term basis until September 2026. The candidate will negotiate and draft supplier contracts while resolving contractual issues. Strong commercial awareness and excellent communication skills are essential. This role offers a hybrid working arrangement, competitive salary, and a comprehensive benefits package, including a generous pension contribution and 30 days holiday.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

Annual performance-related bonus

30 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives

Generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Must be a fully qualified lawyer with a current practising certificate.
• Experience negotiating commercial contracts and technology agreements.
• Strong commercial awareness and excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate and advise on Group-wide supplier contracts.
• Help resolve performance or contractual issues.
• Identify legal risks and provide pragmatic advice.

Skills

Commercial awareness

Excellent influencing skills

Customer-focused approach

Education

Qualified lawyer with UK practicing certificate

Job description

JOB TITLE: Lawyer - Group Legal, Group Operations & Commercial Legal (FTC until 30/09/2026)

SALARY: £87,552 - £97,280

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Chester, Halifax, Leeds, Bristol & Newport

HOURS: Full Time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

This isn't just a legal job - it's a chance to work alongside forward-thinking colleagues, help drive transformation and make a real impact in an organisation providing banking services to customers and businesses across the UK.

This role is for a commercial lawyer to join the Group Operations & Commercial Legal team as a fixed term employee until 30th September 2026.

We're a collaborative, enthusiastic and development-focused team which strives to provide excellent inhouse legal support and embrace technology to deliver legal services in the most effective way for our stakeholders.

The team delivers legal support across the organisation working alongside the Group Chief Operating Office, our People & Places team as well as customer facing business areas across all Lloyds Banking Group brands. The work is varied, fast paced and will provide phenomenal insight into the operations, technology and strategy of the Group!

There's lots of opportunities to get involved with innovative and groundbreaking work such as FinTech deals to grow our services, supporting cyber security initiatives to keep customers safe and working with third party suppliers to deliver tech transformation. We lead on legal advice relating to material procurement arrangements to ensure we achieve robust terms with the Group's suppliers and comply with our legal and regulatory requirements.

Day to day you'll:

• Negotiate, draft and advise on a variety of Group-wide supplier contracts for both IT (including SaaS, Cloud and AI solutions) and operational services (such as business process outsources or professional services)

• Help the business resolve performance or other contractual issues arising from ongoing supplier relationships including resolving contentious matters

• Ensure projects align with regulatory requirements and help with horizon scanning

• Identify key legal risks, advise on their implications for the Group and supporting the business by providing clear, pragmatic, solution-focused advice

• Support the team's initiatives to provide training to our internal business partners on relevant legal topics

• Join the team's helpline service providing stakeholders with quick and easy access to legal support for ad hoc 'phone a friend' queries

• Support the effective selection and management of external legal counsel.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you'll need

• Must be a fully qualified lawyer with a current practising certificate for a UK jurisdiction or equivalent legal qualification.

• Experience of negotiating commercial contracts, outsourcing arrangements and technology agreements gained either in an established in-house legal team or a leading private practice firm.

• Strong commercial awareness together with a customer-focussed approach.

• Excellent influencing and communication skills together with a pro-active approach as you'll be required to interact with executives, deliver messages in a cohesive and simple way and build your internal network with senior leaders.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Experience advising clients from the financial services sector and an awareness of the regulatory requirements for outsourcing in this sector.

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.>

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you're excited about being part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you!