Legal Counsel / Reg Corp Counsel

KION Group; Banbury; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A multinational company specializing in intralogistics is seeking a legal counsel to provide legal, commercial, and risk management support. This role involves drafting and negotiating contracts, ensuring compliance, and managing legal risks in the UK and Ireland. Ideal candidates will have a degree in law, relevant legal qualifications, and experience in commercial legal work. The position offers competitive compensation with benefits including a bonus scheme and enhanced pension.

Benefits

Competitive Compensation and Benefits

Bonus Scheme

Enhanced Pension

Career Progression

Qualifications

• Degree in law required.
• Solicitor or equivalent, admitted in a common law jurisdiction.
• Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of legal specialization.
• Advanced understanding of contract concepts and practices.
• Proven record in commercial legal work.

Responsibilities

• Draft and negotiate contracts and variations.
• Provide legal advice for business activities.
• Ensure compliance with Dematic policies.
• Engage with business teams on legal/commercial matters.
• Administer contracts in line with policies.

Skills

Legal drafting skills

Negotiation skills

Knowledge of contract law

Commercial legal work

Risk management

Financial acumen

Stakeholder engagement

Compliance knowledge

Education

Degree in law

Solicitor admitted in common law jurisdiction

Job description

This role will provide legal, commercial and risk management support to the Dematic Business as a key internal business partner and advisor. The focus of this role will be in the areas of commercial and contract law, construction law as it relates to project and services provided by Dematic in the intralogistics industry, as well as the provision of legal advice more generally to the business inclusive of matters relating to corporate governance, claims and litigation and compliance.

The incumbent will be required to draft and support the business in negotiating a broad range of contracts for the Dematic business operations in the UK, Ireland and Scandinavia.

We offer:

• Competitive Compensation and Benefits

• Bonus Scheme

• Enhanced Pension, Annual Leave, and BUPA

• Career Progression

Learn More Here: https://www.dematic.com/en-us/about/careers/what-we-offer/

Tasks and Qualifications:

Legal Responsibilities:

• Proactively promote and practice effective and professional legal advice for Dematic UK’s business activities and service offerings.

• Support pre-contractual legal considerations such as review and analysis of ITT’s/ RFQ’s and provision of ad hoc (strategic) advice to the sales- procurement and/or execution teams.

• Drafting and negotiating contracts, variations, and related documents forms as required in conjunction with senior management.

• Support and advice the business teams on contract compliance, contract awareness, contract change management and related matters.

• Render support as required in relation to Corporate Governance and Compliance Matters.

• Liaise, where necessary, and act as intermediary, with other specialist or external advisors.

• Ensure a consistent pass through of contractual positions and risks to suppliers/subcontractors where possible by rendering appropriate assistance to the procurement team.

• Engage closely with the business teams to ensure that legal/commercial outputs are in compliance with Dematic policies.

• Attend contractual meetings with customers (including co-operation with purchasing on supply contracts) on contractual issues prior to closing.

• Ensure a consistent pass through of contractual provisions to other Dematic entities and departments where necessary.

• Ensure that contract (templates) are kept up to date in line with new legal developments and Dematic’s best practice.

• Support other Legal Counsel in rendering assistance to European or Group Legal in relation to both contentious and non-contentious matters where appropriate.

Risk Management:

• Ensure that contracts are administered in line with Dematic policies.

• Ensure insurance commitments are reflected within the business contracts.

Financial Management:

• Support on ad hoc financial duties.

• Liaise with Treasury regarding credit security matters.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree in law.

• Solicitor or equivalent, admitted in a common law jurisdiction; additional European/civil law qualification is a plus.

• Demonstrates and applies comprehensive knowledge of field of specialization to the successful completion of complex assignments.

• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of complex concepts, practices, and procedures of particular area of contract specialization.

• Demonstrates broad knowledge of organization's business practices and issues and contributes to resolution of those issues in support of regional management team.

• Proven record in commercial legal work.

• Proven record in private legal practice is a plus.

• Thorough legal drafting and good negotiation skills, coupled with business driven legal advisory tasks.

• Deep knowledge of standard form engineering contracts typically used in the industry such as MF1 and FIDIC.

• Deveral years commercial experience and specifically negotiating commercial construction related contracts is a plus.

• Language skills: English native/advanced; additional language skill is a plus.

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