Legal Counsel - Vendor Contracts

Gallagher; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global brokerage firm is seeking a Legal Counsel to manage legal risks associated with vendor contracts, focusing on technology and procurement agreements. You will oversee contract negotiations, ensure compliance, and deliver training to internal stakeholders. This position offers remote work flexibility with occasional travel to London. The ideal candidate is a qualified solicitor with relevant experience in commercial contracts and strong relationship-building skills.

Benefits

25+ days holiday

Defined contribution pension scheme

Life insurance

Income protection

Health cash plan or Private medical insurance

Employee Stock Purchase plan

Discounted gym membership

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a commercial contracts lawyer, in-house or in private practice.
• Broad knowledge of IT contracts and vendor agreements.
• Basic understanding of Data Protection and GDPR.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate technology and vendor contracts, ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Build strong relationships with internal teams and manage external counsel engagements.
• Deliver legal training to internal teams and develop legal templates and guidance.

Skills

Commercial contracts law

Vendor agreements

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder influence

Education

Qualified solicitor or barrister

Tools

Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM)

AI tools

Job description

Introduction

Indulge your passion for problem-solving and embrace the thrill of addressing risk head-on at Gallagher's global brokerage team. Join a family of diverse minds, united by a relentless pursuit of excellence. As part of our team, you'll be the architect of protection, safeguarding businesses and empowering their ambitions. Together, we'll build a legacy of trust and triumph in the dynamic world of risk management.

We believe that every candidate brings something special to the table, including you! So, even if you feel that you’re close but not an exact match, we encourage you to apply.

Overview

As Legal Counsel, you will play a pivotal role in managing legal risk, with a particular focus on technology and procurement agreements. Your responsibilities will include drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and advising on a diverse range of vendor contracts, such as SaaS agreements, consultancy arrangements, data provision contracts, HR services agreements, and data processing agreements. You will ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, mitigate legal risks, and align contract reviews with the strategic objectives of key internal stakeholders, including Procurement, IT, and Data Protection teams.

In this role, you will act as a vital legal intermediary between the business and external counsel, overseeing engagements and managing budgets as needed. Furthermore, you will deliver legal training to trainees, paralegals, and non-lawyers, while also developing legal templates, playbooks, and efficiency initiatives to enhance service delivery.

This position offers the flexibility of remote working, with occasional travel to London required.

How you'll make an impact

• Draft, review, and negotiate technology and vendor contracts, ensuring regulatory compliance and mitigating legal risks.
• Build strong relationships with internal teams, including Procurement, IT, and Data Protection, and manage external counsel engagements when necessary.
• Provide accurate and practical legal advice, reflecting English law, and deliver legal training to internal teams.
• Develop legal templates, guidance notes, and playbooks, and leverage Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) and AI tools to enhance efficiency.
• Stay informed about changes in laws affecting vendor contracts, including data protection, financial services regulation, and AI laws.

About you

• Qualified solicitor or barrister.
• Proven experience as a commercial contracts lawyer, either in-house or in private practice.
• Broad knowledge of IT contracts and vendor agreements.
• Basic understanding of Data Protection and GDPR.
• Experience influencing internal and external stakeholders.
• Right to work in the UK.

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Compensation and benefits

On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days
• Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to
• Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x
• Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up
• Health cash plan or Private medical insurance

Other benefits include:

• Three fully paid volunteering days per year
• Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount
• Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan
• Critical illness cover
• Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally
• Season ticket loan
• Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase
• Emergency back-up family care
• And many more…

We value inclusion and diversity

Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long-term health conditions or disabilities.

We understand that applicants may have disabilities, if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.

Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with [e-mail] . If you’d prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch.

Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.