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Senior Legal Counsel - Commercial Technology
SSQ
Bristol
Hybrid
GBP 60,000 - 100,000
Full time
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Job summary
An established industry player is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel to join their dynamic in-house legal team. This role involves leading negotiations for complex technology contracts, advising on risk management, and partnering with the business to develop innovative service offerings. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience in technology agreements and will play a key role in supporting the sales cycle. With a focus on career progression and high-caliber work, this position offers a hybrid working model, allowing for a balanced work-life integration. If you are ready to take your legal career to the next level, this opportunity is for you.
Benefits
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in advising on complex technology agreements.
- Proven track record in leading negotiations for large contracts.
Responsibilities
- Lead negotiations for multi-million pound cross-border technology contracts.
- Advise on deal structure and potential pitfalls in proposals.
Skills
Education
Job description
Our client, a leading Technology Services Consultancy, seeks to recruit a senior counsel to join their in-house legal team (due to business growth) to lead complex contractual and commercial deals, negotiating with listed clients in Commerce & Industry, Financial Services and / or Public Sector.
Our client is globally recognised as being at the forefront of new technology and regularly provides services in the field of SaaS & Data Licensing, API Development, Robotics & Automation, Digital Transformation Cybersecurity, Cloud Services, IT Infrastructure (Migration & Integration) & Managed Services.
You will deliver business-focused solutions, acting as a strategic legal and deal advisor and partner directly with the business, to assess and understand how risks can be managed and mitigated, while advising on deal structure and strategy. Your role will involve:
- Leading negotiations for multi-million pound cross-border complex technology based contracts for software implementation and application management services, including regularly facing off with client legal teams and their external counsel.
- Advising the Business on potential pitfalls in design, build and run/operate proposals.
- Primarily providing support during the sales cycle from supporting the engagement teams with their responses to tenders and bid response development to negotiating contracts for services.
- Review and negotiation of engagement contracts across Consulting and MSAs/framework agreements including direct discussion with clients and their legal advisors.
- Working closely with the business to discuss and develop commercial offerings as they move to a more innovative way of pricing their services.
Must haves!
Qualified lawyer with 8+ years experience, advising on large, complex technology agreements.
Our client is a trusted name in the market, who offers long term career progression, high calibre work and hybrid working 1-2 days in per week. For more information please apply or contact miles.gillhespy@ssq.com
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