Legal Counsel

Aptean; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global software solutions provider is seeking a Legal Counsel - Commercial to support its UKI business. The role involves drafting and negotiating contracts, ensuring compliance, and providing legal advice to key stakeholders. Ideal candidates should be qualified solicitors with 3-6 years of experience in a commercial in-house role, particularly in technology contracts. This position offers the flexibility of remote work.

Qualifications

• 3 - 6 years post-qualification experience (PQE) as a Commercial Solicitor.
• Experience of working in a commercial in-house role.
• Experience in technology contracts (e.g. SaaS/software).
• Desirable experience with data processing agreements.

Responsibilities

• Analysing, summarising, advising on, drafting and negotiating contracts.
• Assisting with the legal requirements of RFPs/Tenders.
• Ensuring compliance with relevant laws and corporate policies.
• Negotiating with outside parties on contractual issues.
• Managing legal risks within the business.
• Providing legal advice to a range of internal stakeholders.
• Supporting contract renewals and variations.

Skills

Strong commercial acumen and business sense

Excellent contract negotiation skills

Ability to work independently and collaboratively

Excellent analytical skills

Excellent communication skills

Diplomatic skills

Research skills

Drafting skills

Fluent English language skills

Education

Qualified solicitor

Job description

Overview

Legal Counsel - Commercial

UK remote

About Aptean

Aptean is a global provider of mission-critical, industry-specific software solutions. Aptean’s purpose-built ERP and supply chain management solutions help address the unique challenges facing process and discrete manufacturers, distributors, and other focused organizations. Aptean’s compliance solutions are built for companies serving specific markets such as finance, healthcare, biotech, and pharmaceuticals. Over 10,000 organizations in more than 20 industries across 54 countries trust Aptean’s solutions at their core to assist with running their operations.

General Summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join the legal team of a high-growth software development business in a supportive and innovative work environment. As a Legal Counsel, you will work closely with the Senior Legal Counsel and Vice President of Legal to provide legal support and assistance across Aptean’s UKI business.

Responsibilities

• Analysing, summarising, advising on, drafting and negotiating all kinds of contracts between Aptean’s customers and Aptean’s vendors, including software and SaaS agreements, order forms, novation agreements and variation agreements
• Assisting with the legal requirements of RFPs/Tenders
• Ensuring compliance with relevant laws and Aptean’s corporate policies
• Negotiating with outside parties on contractual issues
• Assisting in managing legal risks within the business
• Providing legal advice to a wide range of internal stakeholders, including account managers, sales and service delivery personnel
• Supporting contract renewals and variations

Required Experience

• Qualified solicitor. 3 - 6 years post-qualification experience (PQE) as a Commercial Solicitor
• Experience of working in a commercial in house role
• Experience in technology contracts (e.g. SaaS/software) including negotiating software/SaaS contracts with customers
• Experience with data processing agreements is desirable

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong commercial acumen and business sense
• Excellent contract negotiation skills
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively
• Excellent analytical, communication, diplomatic, research and drafting skills
• Fluent English language skills

About Aptean

At Aptean, our mission is to solve tomorrow’s unique challenges today with unrivaled, purpose-built software and superior customer experiences from people who care. Aptean is a global provider of mission-critical, industry-specific software solutions. Aptean’s purpose-built ERP and supply chain management solutions help address the unique challenges facing process and discrete manufacturers, distributors and other focused organizations. Aptean’s compliance solutions are built for companies serving specific markets such as finance, healthcare, biotech and pharmaceuticals, over 10,000 highly specialized organizations in more than 20 industries and 80 countries rely on Aptean to streamline their everyday operations. “At Aptean, our global and diverse employee base is our greatest asset. It is through embracing and understanding our differences that we are able to harness our individual power to maximize the success of our customers, our employees and our company.” – TVN Reddy

Aptean pledges to promote a company culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are central. We are committed to applying this principle as we interact with our customers, build our teams, cultivate our leaders and shape a company in which any employee can succeed, regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, sexuality and gender identity, religion, disability or age. Celebrating our diverse experiences, opinions and beliefs allows us to embrace what makes us unique and to use this as an asset in bringing innovative solutions to our customer base.