Legal Advisor

Arup; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global engineering firm in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Legal Advisor to provide high‑quality, commercially focused legal support. The ideal candidate will advise on contracts and risk management while liaising with commercial leaders. Qualifications include being a qualified lawyer with substantial post-qualified experience and strong business partnering skills. The firm offers competitive pay, a career growth environment, and various health and wellbeing benefits.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Flexible benefits

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer with experience in highly commercial work environments.
• Excellent business partnering adeptness as a brand ambassador for the legal function.
• Strong organisational skills with attention to detail and accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Advise on, draft and review a wide range of contractual agreements.
• Supervise junior team members, trainees, and apprentices.
• Integrate legal and commercial best practices across the business.

Skills

Post-qualified experience

Business partnering skills

Organisational skills

Attention to detail

Ability to prioritise

Education

Qualified lawyer

Job description

Why Arup?

Arup's purpose, shared values and collaborative approach has set us apart for over 75 years, guiding how we shape a better world.

Unleash your creativity and take your skills to new heights while working on inspiring projects. At Arup, we believe in empowering our people to produce work that sets the bar for quality. Our passionate team shares our values, and that's why they love coming to work every day.

The Opportunity

Location: Manchester (Leeds, Liverpool, Birmingham and Bristol also considered)

We are seeking an experienced Legal Advisor to provide high‑quality, commercially focused legal support across a key part of our business. Acting as a trusted partner to commercial and project leaders, you will be the primary point of contact for legal matters, advising on contracts, strategic issues, and risk management. You will work closely with colleagues across the UK, India, Middle East, Africa and Europe as part of Arup’s global legal network.

Reporting to the Regional General Counsel, you will run day‑to‑day legal work independently, provide supervision to junior colleagues, and maintain strong professional networks across the business regionally and globally.

The Legal Advisor will utilise their commercial legal expertise in the following areas of work:

• Advise on, draft and review a wide range of contractual agreements.
• Develop expertise in relevant legal subject areas.
• Create and deliver legal guidance, tools and training to the business.
• Support opportunity enablement and effective risk management.
• Ensure high‑quality technical delivery of legal services.
• Shape appropriate contractual legal frameworks for Arup services.
• Supervise junior team members, trainees and apprentices.
• Integrate legal and commercial best practice across the business.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to deliver practical legal solutions.
• Build strong internal and external business relationships.

Is this role right for you?

We seek dynamic legal professionals with the following skills and attributes:

• Qualified lawyer with demonstrable post-qualified experience in highly commercial work environments.
• Excellent business partnering adeptness (expected to be a brand ambassador for the legal function at Arup).
• Strong organisational skills with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines in a fast‑paced environment.
• Experience of working within a professional services or industry-relevant setting to Arup is highly desirable.

What We Offer you

At Arup, we care about each member’s success, so we can grow together. Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognises the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive – through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.

We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup’s legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling members to share in the results of our collective efforts.

We also provide Private medical insurance, Life assurance, Accident insurance and Income protection cover. In addition, you’ll have access to flexible benefits to help you look after all aspects of your wellbeing and give you the freedom and flexibility to find the best solutions for you, your family, and your individual needs.

Different People, Shared Values

Arup is an equal opportunity employer that actively promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of age (within legal limits), gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, neurotype or mental health, race or ethnicity, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. We are an open environment that embraces diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas – this drives our excellence.