Senior Legal Counsel

Aptean; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global software solutions provider is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel to provide legal support to businesses in the UK and Ireland. The role involves drafting and negotiating software contracts, ensuring compliance, and mitigating legal risks. Ideal candidates should have 6-9 years of experience in IT law and excellent communication skills. This role is remote, allowing for flexibility in work arrangements.

Qualifications

• 6-9 years of experience working in-house in a software/IT company.
• Proven experience in drafting and negotiating software/IT contracts.
• Ability to work well independently and in a team.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, summarize, advise on, draft and negotiate contractual documentation.
• Ensure compliance with corporate policies.
• Negotiate contractual issues and legal disputes.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Diplomatic skills

Research skills

Drafting skills

Education

Qualified lawyer

Job description

Overview

Senior Legal Counsel UK remote

Aptean is a global provider of mission-critical, industry-specific software solutions. Aptean’s purpose-built ERP and supply chain management solutions help address the unique challenges facing process and discrete manufacturers, distributors, and other focused organizations. Aptean’s compliance solutions are built for companies serving specific markets such as finance, healthcare, biotech, and pharmaceuticals. Over 10,000 organizations in more than 20 industries across 54 countries trust Aptean’s solutions at their core to assist with running their operations.

General Summary

As a Senior Legal Counsel, you will provide legal support and assistance to the Aptean businesses located in UK and Ireland.

Responsibilities

• Analyzing, summarizing, advising on, drafting and negotiating all kinds of contractual documentation including software license agreements and SaaS agreements for customers
• Ensuring compliance with Aptean’s corporate policies
• Negotiating with outside parties on contractual issues and legal disputes
• Anticipating and mitigating potential legal problems within the organization and developing strategies to avoid costly litigation and reduce potential areas of risk
• Consulting with management, commercial advisors, tax experts, accountants and marketing staff

Work experience and requirements

• Qualified lawyer with 6-9 years of experience working in-house in a software/IT company drafting and negotiating software/IT contracts with customers
• Excellent analytical, communication, diplomatic, research and drafting skills
• Ability to work well independently and in a team in a dynamic, rapidly changing workplace
• A combination of law firm and in-house company experience

About Aptean
Aptean is a global provider of mission-critical, industry-specific software solutions. Aptean’s purpose-built ERP and supply chain management solutions help address the unique challenges facing process and discrete manufacturers, distributors, and other focused organizations. Aptean’s compliance solutions are built for companies serving specific markets such as finance, healthcare, biotech, and pharmaceuticals. Over 10,000 highly specialized organizations in more than 20 industries and 80 countries rely on Aptean to streamline their everyday operations.

Aptean pledges to promote a company culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are central. We are committed to applying this principle as we interact with our customers, build our teams, cultivate our leaders and shape a company in which any employee can succeed, regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, sexuality and gender identity, religion, disability or age. Celebrating our diverse experiences, opinions and beliefs allows us to embrace what makes us unique and to use this as an asset in bringing innovative solutions to our customer base.