Legal Counsel

Renishaw; Wotton-under-Edge; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A precision engineering leader is seeking a Legal Counsel in Wotton-under-Edge to provide pragmatic legal advice. The role involves drafting and negotiating commercial contracts while maintaining legal compliance. Candidates should be qualified solicitors with 2-5 years PQE and excellent analytical skills. Competitive benefits, including a hybrid working policy, a 9% pension scheme, and various employee assistance programs, are offered. Join a company that values innovation and integrity.

Benefits

9% non-contributory pension

Discretionary annual bonus

Subsidised onsite restaurants

Free parking

Health Cash Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• 2-5 years PQE in commercial legal advice ideally from a demanding environment.
• Proven track record in drafting high-value commercial contracts.
• Ability to lead and influence stakeholders at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Act as a contact for stakeholders to influence strategy.
• Provide day-to-day legal advice to UK sales.
• Negotiate complex commercial contracts.

Skills

Commercial law knowledge

Drafting skills

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Attention to detail

Education

Qualified solicitor (England and Wales)

Job description

Job Description

Renishaw is a global leader in precision engineering, manufacturing, and technology innovation. With a strong heritage in advanced manufacturing and metrology, we deliver cutting‑edge solutions across industries including aerospace, automotive, healthcare, and electronics.

As part of the Legal & Secretariat (L&S) team, your focus will be providing pragmatic legal advice while supporting our core values of Innovation, Inspiration, Integrity and Involvement.

You will be adept at drafting and negotiating commercial contracts to reduce legal risk in a dynamic and complex business environment.

You will have superior interpersonal skills to influence and inform your stakeholders, both within the L&S team and wider business.

Key responsibilities

• Act as a key contact for stakeholders in a range of business units and corporate support departments to help influence and implement business strategy and direction.

• Act as a primary contact for the UK sales subsidiary providing day‑to‑day advice to sales and marketing colleagues.

• Review, draft and negotiate high‑value, complex commercial contracts with customers, sales intermediaries, suppliers, service providers and other key business partners.

• Support the business with responses to tenders and customer queries.

• Support on L&S change and process improvement projects that underpin the business’s key objectives across multiple disciplines.

• Support operational and commercial functions with day‑to‑day legal queries and issues.

• Work with product development teams to ensure compliance with commercial and IP frameworks.

• Assist in maintaining the L&S team’s templates, precedents and other know‑how materials.

• Provide practical solutions to complex legal problems as a key business partner.

• Procure and manage external specialist counsel (as required).

• Support senior lawyers as required, both in the UK and internationally.

• Contribute to the growth of the L&S team by sharing knowledge, delivering training, mentoring more junior colleagues and supporting the onboarding of new colleagues.

• Conduct legal research as necessary.

Key requirements

• Qualified solicitor (England and Wales) with 2‑5 years PQE and experience in delivering pragmatic, commercial legal advice in a demanding private practice or in‑house environment.

• Excellent technical knowledge of commercial law and drafting skills.

• Superior analytical skills and a creative, flexible approach to problem solving.

• An ability to interact with people at all levels in the business.

• Impeccable integrity and a willingness and ability to lead by example.

• Strong attention to detail and a “can do” attitude.

• An appetite to learn continually and share your experience and knowledge.

Desirable

• Working in house – ideally within the manufacturing or industrial sectors

• Mergers and acquisitions

• Real estate and property

• Construction

• Software licensing and AI

• Contract management and other legal tools

• Fluency in another language

Benefits

When you join Renishaw, we're committing to your future career. That's because we believe in developing our people's skills and promoting them internally. We also offer a benefits package that's highly desirable; including a 9% non‑contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, *subsidised onsite restaurants and *coffee shops, free parking, *car sharing scheme and *24 hour fitness centres. (not available at all sites).

We also want to promote a healthy work‑life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a hybrid working policy which allows for a combination of home and office based working depending on the nature of your role. We also offer a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, Health Cash Plan, the option to join BUPA Renishaw Health Trust and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.

At Renishaw we believe that our success is powered by welcoming a workforce of diverse and talented people. Through encouraging an inclusive culture, where all our employees are free to be themselves, we can achieve our core values: Innovation, Inspiration, Integrity, and Involvement.

If you are excited about the role but feel as though you don’t meet all the requirements, we would encourage you still to apply. You might just be the right person for this role or another opportunity at Renishaw.

We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, or require any reasonable adjustments please contact the recruitment team on01453 524600 or [e-mail].

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Employment Type

Permanent

Time Type

Full time

Requisition Number

R8890 Legal Counsel (Open)