Legal Counsel (in-house)

Vitality; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health services company is seeking a Legal professional to support various business units by providing high-quality legal services. The role focuses on drafting and reviewing contracts, enhancing claims functions, and ensuring effective stakeholder relationships. It requires a practising solicitor or barrister with at least 2 years’ PQE and offers a hybrid working model with extensive benefits, including a bonus scheme and health insurance.

Benefits

Bonus Schemes

Pension contribution up to 12%

Award-winning health insurance

Life Assurance covering four times annual salary

Qualifications

• Practising Solicitor or Barrister with 2 to 3 years’ PQE. Candidates from Commonwealth jurisdictions accepted.
• Strong communication skills for internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, adapting to changing briefs.

Responsibilities

• Review and draft contracts including insurance and marketing agreements.
• Support the Legal function across various business units.
• Assist with legal research and documentation.

Skills

Practising Solicitor or Barrister with 2 to 3 years’ PQE

Ability to communicate effectively internally and externally

Comfortable working to tight deadlines

Job description

Overview

Team – Legal

Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2days per week in the Vitality London Office. Full time, hours per week.

12 Month FTC with the potential to go permanent. We are happy to discuss flexible working!

Top 3 skills

• Practising Solicitor or Barrister with 2 to 3 years’ PQE. Open to candidates in other Commonwealth jurisdictions
• Ability to communicate effectively internally and externally at all levels
• Comfortable working to tight deadlines with loosely defined and changing internal briefs

Role purpose (What this role is all about)

Varied role across multiple business units, supporting the Vitality business by providing high quality legal services, with a focus on supporting the sales and product distribution function of the business, working on the company’s intellectual property portfolio, providing contract support to the marketing and sponsorships team, providing general advice on a range of contracts and commercial matters, and assisting the claims team and with any litigation as necessary. The role involves building a function that generates trust and confidence within its stakeholders and providing support to the Legal Team. This position will be primarily UK-focussed, but with opportunity for the role to expand into Vitality’s global business and international markets.

Key Actions

• Reviewing and drafting a range of contracts, including: insurance distribution agreements; IT and intellectual property agreements; marketing and sponsorship agreements; general third party supplier agreements
• Working closely with external counsel on the company’s intellectual property portfolio
• Where necessary, providing support to Vitality’s claims function in relation to health and life insurance matters, as well as supporting on any litigation which may arise
• Provide advice and support to all areas of the business including up to executive level and for the following business units: Sourcing (Procurement); Insurance Distribution; IT; Claims; Marketing and Sponsorships
• Undertake legal research as required
• Reviewing and drafting a range of documentation, including terms and conditions, product documentation and marketing materials
• Promoting and representing the Legal function across the organisation, ensuring strong working relationships between Legal and the whole of the Vitality business

What you need to thrive

• Ability to innovate and solve problems practically
• Comfortable juggling multiple priorities at once
• Able to work individually
• Confidence to drive decisions for the business
• Able to integrate with a mixed cross-departmental team

What’s in it for you

• Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
• A pension of up to 12% – We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
• Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
• Life Assurance – Four times annual salary

These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!

If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, we will :

• Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been.
• Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
• Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
• Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
• Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
• Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
• Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
• Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
• Be there for you when you need us.
• Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.

We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.