Senior Governance Lawyer, NSE OGC, 12 months FTC (maternity cover)

Deloitte LLP; Winchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Deloitte LLP is seeking an experienced commercial lawyer to join their expanding Office of the General Counsel team in an international capacity. This role involves providing legal support across various jurisdictions in Europe and the Middle East, advising on complex legal issues while partnering with senior stakeholders in a hybrid work environment. Candidates should have exceptional interpersonal skills, strategic thinking abilities, and a proactive approach to managing legal demands in a dynamic setting.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Comprehensive career development programs

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to influence multiple stakeholders.
• Proven strategic thinker who works effectively within a multi-disciplinary model.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice on all commercial matters including procurement and outsourcing.
• Lead legal aspects of major projects and develop strong relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Advise on the use of Generative AI and new technologies.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Flexibility

Communication

Job description

Exciting new international role for an experience commercial lawyer.You will have the ability to lead on a wide variety of commercial legal issues impacted a large professional services firm.The team work flexibly with only 1-2 days a week in the office.The NSE Office of the General Counsel team is small, but growing.You will have the opportunity to join this team to support across many jurisdictions in North and South Europe and the Middle East and work alongside senior and influential stakeholders on innovative, large scale and interesting projects.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte?It’show we approach the thousands of decisions we make everyday. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, whereverwe arein the world, welead the way,serve with integrity, take care of each other ,fosterinclusion, andcollaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision wemake and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it mattersmost .

Connect to your opportunity

There is an opportunity to join a growing in-house legal team in an international role.Deloitte North South Europe (NSE) is a member firm within Deloitte’s global network and brings together over 30 countries across North and South Europe.Further information about Deloitte NSE can be found here.

As the needs of the business evolve, the demands on the Office of the General Counsel (OGC) are expanding.This new opening for an experienced commercial lawyer to join the central team within NSE OGC creates an opportunity to broaden and enhance a wide range of legal skills and experience in an international environment.

This is a key role within the NSE member firm to support the growth and ambition of the business.The role will report directly into the Legal Director and form part of the NSE OGC central legal team.As the team grows, the role holder will have further responsibilities including as a people leader.

The key stakeholders will come from across the business and within our Enabling Functions and will include senior leadership and importantly country General Counsels across the region and globally.The role is broad and will require strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills.

Key features of the role:

• Providing high quality, commercially sound, practical and timely legal advice through day-to-day support on all Commercial legal matters (contentious and non-contentious) for the member firm.This will include high value procurement, outsourcing (including to internal Deloitte delivery offerings globally), intellectual property, sustainability and technology (including the use of Cloud and AI).Given the breath of the business the role holder may also be involved in corporate, structuring, governance and finance matters.
• Leading the legal aspects of major projects and initiatives that the role supports across the member firm either directly or with appropriate support as required, including from local country OGC teams, the Global teams and always in collaboration with the risk and compliance teams.
• Advising the member firm as it responds to the growing demand for the use of Generative AI and support the business through the implementation and use of new technologies.
• Partnering with key stakeholders across the business and develop strong relationships with senior stakeholders within NSE and Global.This will include business leaders and lawyers in common and civil law jurisdictions.
• Acting as an ambassador for NSE and a ‘bridge’ between local OGC teams and NSE to share information, support on commercial legal issues and develop an integrated and efficient approach across the region.
• Keeping abreast of the growth aspirations and strategic developments across the region alongside developments in legislative and regulatory matters and advising, coordinating and supporting local OGC teams to ensure a unified approach wherever possible.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with third party advisors as needed and support the delivery of any advice in a cost-effective manner.
• Supporting the development of the team as it grows and take responsibility for new direct reports as needed.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

You will be able to demonstrate the following skills:

• Ability to build consensus and work in a collaborative manner with all levels within an organisation and the ability to influence multiple stakeholders.
• Open minded approach and ability to evolve and embrace change.
• Strategic thinker who can work effectively within a multi-disciplinary model.
• Ability to communicate clearly, influence, engage and inspire others.
• Practical, down to earth and inclusive approach.
• Highly organised and proactive with strong attention to detail.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with strong ability to build connections and networks.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrate alignment with and behaviour consistent with our Shared Values.
• Excellent drafting and presentation skills.
• Flexible approach and able to learn new areas quickly.

Connect to your business - Enabling Functions

Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. From IT to HR, marketing and more, our teams help to support the wider business in everything they do. Bringing your individual skills and specialist knowledge, you can make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.

Be part of Deloitte North and South Europe

At Deloitte, you’ll be joining an innovative firm, working together to make positive change happen. In the UK, we are part of Deloitte North and South Europe (NSE), the second largest member firm in the Deloitte network.

Deloitte NSE combines operations in Belgium, Central Mediterranean (Italy, Greece, Malta) Ireland, the Netherlands, the Nordics (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden), Switzerland and the UK, as well as countries further afield in the Middle East, including Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Palestinian Ruled Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen).

There are more than 75,000 people that make up our dynamic teams across these regions, and we have an unmatched breadth and depth of capabilities in a wide range of business areas across different regions.

Respect and Inclusion

In the NSE Ambition we’ve committed to creating an inclusive environment for all and addressing inequality, to deliver on and scale our inclusion agenda. Our vision is to provide equal opportunities to mitigate systemic bias, develop our people to succeed and thrive through targeted development, evolve and drive our culture around allyship.

Our NSE Ambition focuses on five characteristics - purpose led; universal leaders, inclusive culture; advisory growth, delivery strength; global scale, local touch; and, digital first – which will differentiate our business in the future, enable us to stand further apart from the competition, attract and retain the best talent and be a recognised leader in societal impact – to become THE winning firm. At Deloitte, we tackle our clients’ and society’s challenges to create progress and possibility for those our work affects. We make an impact that matters. That’s our purpose.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"The support that Deloitte offers is great, and the work is always interesting and motivating.”

"The amount of investment in me in terms of training and development has been incredible - it has undoubtedly helped me to progress my career."

- Jim, Enabling Functions

Connect to your agile working options

Location: This is an NSE role that is available to all NSE geographies, candidates must reside in an NSE Geography to apply. Applicants can expect some travel in support of delivery and collaboration, managed in line with our WorldClimate ambition.

Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You’ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.

You’ll be joining oneofour innovative virtual communities.Which means you’ll be part of the NSE team.You’ll spend most of your time working from home like all of yourNSEcolleagues intheEnabling Functions, or in a local collaboration space when needed. Our hybrid-working model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity.

You’ll have all the support you need to succeed, including robust tech and home workstation set-up guidance, as well as access to a variety of flexible working spaces and all sorts of social activities for you to join. We’re continually innovating our working practices too, so you can expect to see new and excitingtechnologydevelopments coming soon. The future of work is evolving fast and we’realreadyleading the way by enabling flexibilityfor our peopleandmaking it easy for us all to connect and collaborate.

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers