Senior Legal Advisor

TN United Kingdom; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team at a leading airline, where your legal expertise will support strategic projects and enhance compliance across various sectors. This role offers a unique opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment, contributing to sustainability goals and managing an extensive property portfolio. With a focus on personal development and flexibility, you will thrive in a culture that values diversity and innovation. Enjoy a competitive salary, bonus potential, and excellent travel benefits while being part of a team that embodies a positive and inclusive spirit.

Benefits

Up to 30% bonus

25 days holiday

7% pension

Life Assurance

Flexible benefits package

Excellent staff travel benefits

Qualifications

• Experienced corporate lawyer with significant in-house experience.
• Expertise in finance and commercial contracting is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal support across various teams including Strategy and Sustainability.
• Advise on financing, security arrangements, and fleet transactions.

Skills

Corporate Law

Finance Expertise

Commercial Contracting

Multitasking

Relationship Building

Education

Qualified Corporate Lawyer

Equivalent Legal Qualification

Job description

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easyJet has been disrupting the way people travel for 27 years and isn't stopping anytime soon! They welcome diversity in all forms and strive to make their workplace inclusive for everyone. With their Orange Spirit culture, working at easyJet is a unique experience that accelerates personal development. They value flexibility, balance, and wellbeing and are happy to talk about different working arrangements. As Europe's leading airline, easyJet offers a vast network of over 1000 routes across 36 countries and leads the industry in digital and sustainable innovations. They support, empower, and excite their employees and customers in their own unique way. Join the #belongherewithus movement and be part of easyJet's story.

The General Counsel Office (GCO) at easyJet ensures legal, regulatory, and contractual compliance while protecting the business and customers. With a team of around 100 people, including professionals with diverse qualifications and capabilities, GCO handles essential projects such as aircraft procurement, system trials, and government negotiations. GCO offers a fulfilling work environment with hybrid working, flexibility, and travel perks, and employees are deeply embedded within the business as valued partners. The GCO team embodies easyJet's Orange Spirit - positive, inclusive, purpose-driven, problem solvers, and united. With multiple individual and team awards, GCO is successful and ready to support employees in achieving their own success.

What you'll be doing

Reporting to the Head of Legal (Corporate, Finance, Procurement & Ops), this role provides essential legal support across various teams including Strategy, Sustainability, Treasury, Fleet, Engineering & Maintenance, and Facilities. It is ideal for a senior-level transactional lawyer seeking to broaden their experience in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Key responsibilities include supporting strategic corporate projects, advising on financing and security arrangements, collaborating with the Sustainability team on ESG goals, advising on fleet transactions, supporting procurement processes, and managing an extensive property portfolio. Additionally, the role involves contributing to continuous improvement initiatives within the legal team.

Requirements of the Role

Senior Legal Advisor(15027)Description

Senior Legal Advisor

Luton

easyJet has been disrupting the way people travel for 27 years and isn't stopping anytime soon! They welcome diversity in all forms and strive to make their workplace inclusive for everyone. With their Orange Spirit culture, working at easyJet is a unique experience that accelerates personal development. They value flexibility, balance, and wellbeing and are happy to talk about different working arrangements. As Europe's leading airline, easyJet offers a vast network of over 1000 routes across 36 countries and leads the industry in digital and sustainable innovations. They support, empower, and excite their employees and customers in their own unique way. Join the #belongherewithus movement and be part of easyJet's story.

The General Counsel Office (GCO) at easyJet ensures legal, regulatory, and contractual compliance while protecting the business and customers. With a team of around 100 people, including professionals with diverse qualifications and capabilities, GCO handles essential projects such as aircraft procurement, system trials, and government negotiations. GCO offers a fulfilling work environment with hybrid working, flexibility, and travel perks, and employees are deeply embedded within the business as valued partners. The GCO team embodies easyJet's Orange Spirit - positive, inclusive, purpose-driven, problem solvers, and united. With multiple individual and team awards, GCO is successful and ready to support employees in achieving their own success.

What you'll be doing

Reporting to the Head of Legal (Corporate, Finance, Procurement & Ops), this role provides essential legal support across various teams including Strategy, Sustainability, Treasury, Fleet, Engineering & Maintenance, and Facilities. It is ideal for a senior-level transactional lawyer seeking to broaden their experience in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Key responsibilities include supporting strategic corporate projects, advising on financing and security arrangements, collaborating with the Sustainability team on ESG goals, advising on fleet transactions, supporting procurement processes, and managing an extensive property portfolio. Additionally, the role involves contributing to continuous improvement initiatives within the legal team.

Requirements of the Role

What you'll bring to the team

You should be an experienced corporate lawyer, either in the UK or with an equivalent qualification. Ideally, you possess finance and commercial contracting expertise. Your significant in-house experience, whether gained directly or through client secondments, is a key asset. You excel at understanding the commercial landscape, effectively cutting through complexities to identify core issues and prioritize tasks. Multitasking is a strength, allowing you to manage competing priorities and intricate scenarios. You're proactive, self-motivated, and thrive in fast-paced environments, often taking the initiative to resolve challenges. Building strong relationships is your forte, with a history of earning trust and openness from others.

You're unafraid to express your views but also highly respectful of differing perspectives, consistently acting in the best interests of easyJet. You're comfortable in an informal, open-plan office setting, and your passion for easyJet, its brand, values, and commitment to operational excellence and customer experience, shines through. Your uniqueness and individuality are celebrated and embraced.

What we offer in return

Competitive base salary

Up to 30% bonus

25 days holiday

BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes

7% pension

Life Assurance

Flexible benefits package

Excellent staff travel benefits

Location & Hours of Works

This full-time role will be based inLuton and will be 40 hours per week. Hybrid working with 3 days in the office.

About easyJet

At easyJet our aim is to make low-cost travel easy – connecting people to what they value using Europe’s best airline network, great value fares, and friendly service.

It takes a real team effort to carry over 90 million passengers a year across 35 countries. Whether you’re working as part of our front-line operations or in our corporate functions, you’ll find people that are positive, inclusive, ready to take on a challenge, and that have your back. We call that our ‘Orange Spirit’, and we hope you’ll share that too.

Apply Complete your application on our careers site.

We encourage individuality, empower our people to seize the initiative, and never stop learning. We see people first and foremost for their performance and potential and we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates.

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Business Area

Legal

Primary Location

United Kingdom-London-London Luton Airport

Organisation

Legal

Schedule

Full-time

Unposting Date

Ongoing