Legal Counsel - Pensions

People's Partnership; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading not-for-profit organization seeks a Legal Counsel specializing in pensions. You will provide legal advice, manage risks, and support stakeholders on various legal issues. Join a diverse team with a commitment to fairness and simplicity, ensuring a rewarding work environment.

Benefits

Generous pension contributions

Real living wage

Income protection

Employee healthcare

Parental and adoption leave

Learning & development opportunities

Travel season ticket loans

Subsidised restaurant

Onsite gym

Volunteering days

Qualifications

• Substantial post qualification experience in a commercial or pensions environment.
• Experience providing legal advice on pensions and commercial matters.

Responsibilities

• Provide pensions legal advice and solutions to drive the business forward.
• Draft, review and negotiate documents with third parties.

Skills

Communication

Analytical

Judgement

Attention to Detail

Education

UK qualified lawyer

Tools

Pensions Law

Commercial Law

Data Protection Law

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About People’s Partnership

At the heart of our not-for-profit organisation is a commitment and a motivation to make the future-saving experience a simple one for our members. We champion fairness and simplicity, not profit-chasing. Imagine a financial adventure where everyone's a winner, fuelled by our exceptional service and brought to life by the fantastic individuals who work for us. We're a diverse employer with a flexible, hybrid working approach, ensuring everyone gets the opportunity to come to work and be the best version of themselves.

Description

Legal Counsel – Pensions

About People’s Partnership

At the heart of our not-for-profit organisation is a commitment and a motivation to make the future-saving experience a simple one for our members. We champion fairness and simplicity, not profit-chasing. Imagine a financial adventure where everyone's a winner, fuelled by our exceptional service and brought to life by the fantastic individuals who work for us. We're a diverse employer with a flexible, hybrid working approach, ensuring everyone gets the opportunity to come to work and be the best version of themselves.

What You'll Be Doing

The role is focused on the provision of pensions legal advice, taking ownership and accountability for providing commercial and practical solutions that help drive the business forward. The Legal Counsel will be responsible for dealing with requests from the Trustees of the pension schemes and proposals from the business’ internal teams (such as Propositions and Business Development), as well as providing ad hoc legal advice to the wider business. As part of the wider legal team, the Legal Counsel will be required to assist on a broad range of commercial, corporate, and other legal issues.

They will be expected to support key stakeholders, projects and department activities, ensuring that the business’, and where not in conflict with the business, the Trustees’ interests are protected (taking account of their respective risk appetites).

• To be a subject matter expert in pensions and to provide comprehensive, pragmatic and timely legal advice and guidance to the business, management and staff on legal issues affecting them
• Identifying, managing and mitigating legal risks, including disputes and litigation
• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating documents with third parties
• Preparing internal briefing papers
• Monitoring the impact of regulatory frameworks and other relevant legislation affecting the organisation in its pensions activities and ensuring business areas understand any relevant potential impact
• Contributing to the development of new and existing template documents and precedents, ensuring they reflect the organisation’s risk appetite and are in line with current legislation and best practice
• Working closely with key stakeholders to develop processes and procedures in line with the team’s cross-business focus
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• UK qualified lawyer (or overseas equivalent) with substantial post qualification experience within a commercial, financial and/or pensions environment.
• Experience of providing legal advice in relation to pensions or general commercial matters
• Experience of providing legal advice in a secondary area of law relevant to the business such as procurement, investment, litigation and/or data protection law.
• Excellent standard of communication skills – orally, in reports and in presentations
• Analytical with excellent judgement and strong attention to detail
• Proven ability to manage internal and external stakeholders - able to communicate at all levels across the business
• Comprehensive knowledge of the law and regulation as it applies to pensions law
  
  

What You Can Expect From Us

• Generous pension contributions with an employer contribution of up to 14%
• Real living wage
• Income protection, critical illness cover & death in service insurance
• Employee healthcare
• Parental and adoption leave
• Learning & development opportunities and study support
• Travel season ticket loans
• Subsidised restaurant in our Crawley office
• Volunteering days and charity payroll giving
• Onsite gym
• Ride-to-Work scheme
• Social clubs and events
  
  

You can learn more about how we support our employees on our website

Disability Statement

People's Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to treating all our people (and all who apply for a role at People's Partnership) equally and enabling them to perform at their best and demonstrate what they have to offer. We are a disability committed employer, please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made to our recruitment process (application, selection assessments where relevant, and interview) to enable you to show us the best “you”.

Perks

Our people are our strength so finding ways to value and reward them is important to us. That’s why we offer an award-winning pension – it’s what we’re good at – plus health care cover, an onsite gym, access to a personal trainer; even the odd massage. And if they’re feeling peckish after all that activity, they can always refuel in our subsidised restaurant. Discover more of People's Partnership's employee benefits including our training programme, which is designed to give our people the support they need to develop a fulfilling career.

Salary Range

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Legal

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