Strategic Contracts & Compliance Specialist

Penta Consulting; Epsom; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Christmas & Birthday Leave

Bike to Work

Travel Season Ticket Loan

Company Social Events

Company Incentive Trips

Employee Assistance Programme

Enhanced Family Planning Policies

Job summary

Penta Consulting is seeking a Legal and Commercial Associate to manage day-to-day legal and commercial activities across the business, ensuring contracts, procurement, and compliance are efficiently handled. The role reports to the Head of Legal Operations and acts as the operational owner of legal workstreams.

You will support sales, operations, finance, and compliance teams, manage contract lifecycles, onboarding, and documentation, and drive process improvements with automation where possible.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in an in-house legal role or commercial legal role.
• Experience in a commercial, operational or compliance environment (professional services or staffing industry preferred).
• Strong understanding of legal agreements, commercial risk, compliance and legal operational efficiencies and best practices.
• Knowledge of regulatory and operational compliance standards.
• Skilled in relationship management across internal and external teams.
• Proficient with CRM systems, document management, reporting tools and Microsoft Office suite.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end contract lifecycle for group companies, clients, suppliers, and ad-hoc requests from initial review through to execution, renewal, and termination.
• Draft, review, negotiate, and finalise a wide range of commercial agreements including NDAs, MSAs, MPAs, Collaboration Frameworks, RFIs, SOWs, amendments.
• Ensure contractual terms reflect agreed positions, flow downs, and risk mitigation measures.
• Maintain and improve standard contract templates in line with regulatory changes and business requirements, liaising with external counsel where necessary.
• Ensure client and supplier documentation is valid, up to date, and aligned with internal regulatory requirements (KYC’s, credit checks, licenses).
• Act as the primary legal and commercial point of contact for client and supplier relationships, supporting negotiations and resolving queries.
• Monitor contractual compliance and service obligations, escalating risks or breaches as required.
• Provide day to day legal and commercial support to sales, operations, finance, contracts and compliance teams.
• Support the sales function by reviewing and negotiating client terms to facilitate timely deal closure.
• Translate legal risk into clear, pragmatic commercial advice for non-legal stakeholders.
• Ensure all contracts comply with internal policies and external regulations.
• Maintain contract records, flag key dates, renewals, and expiries.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

Communication

Tools

CRM systems

Document management

Reporting tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Penta Consulting is seeking a Legal and Commercial Associate to manage day-to-day legal and commercial activities across the business, ensuring contracts, procurement, and compliance are efficiently handled. The role reports to the Head of Legal Operations and acts as the operational owner of legal workstreams.

You will support sales, operations, finance, and compliance teams, manage contract lifecycles, onboarding, and documentation, and drive process improvements with automation where possible.