Lawyer à Grande-Bretagne

As support to the Legal Dept, to offer prompt legal guidance and general legal assistance to Acrelec’s global business operations in all areas of corporate and commercial law, with a focus on creating synergy and enabling growth through established procedures and practical, consistent advice. Managing external lawyers and legal professionals to ensure high-quality commercial, governance and compliance advice. Helping the business in evaluating and advising on strategic and business initiatives to guarantee legal compliance and best results while keeping a coherent, global approach with other attorneys in the Legal department and the wider group of companies.

• Contracts: Managing initial drafting, evaluation and negotiation through to execution including Non- Disclosure Agreements, Sales / Purchasing Agreements, Sub-contracts, Lease agreements, customer proposed terms and conditions and SaaS licensing.
• Serves as a legal point of contact for internal and external customers on contractual matters, governance and compliance, ensuring timely review and approval / reconciliation of variations.
• On all standard and nonstandard contracts, provide redlined recommendations and often negotiate directly with customer attorneys or purchasing staff until consensus has been reached.
• Maintain contractual records and documentation such as receipt and control of all contract correspondence, customer contact information sheets, contractual changes, status reports and other documents for all projects.
• Supporting on commercial changes to Group companies and the maintenance of corporate registers in the Group.
• Support in training managers and other employees in contracting practices and procedures, group policies and initiatives and supporting legal integration and change management work throughout the Region.
• Monitor compliance by company employees with established procedures. Identify areas of recurrent pressure.
• Support Legal Dept to ensure company products and services are offered with appropriate, competitive terms and conditions.
• Ensure that signed contracts are communicated to all relevant parties to provide contract visibility and awareness, interpretation to support implementation.
• Monitor transaction compliance (milestones, deliverables, invoicing etc.).

• Have a broad understanding of all aspects of corporate and commercial law and solid international experience. Knowledge of licensing, SaaS platforms and data regulation is a benefit.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills, proven ability to manage a team, external counsel and internal clients.
• Strong commercial awareness and the ability to deal with problems in a pragmatic and logical way
• Ability to lead, take responsibility and act autonomously including an ability to take difficult decisions and provide substantiated arguments.
• Skilled to work in highly competitive sectors and a fast-changing environment.

• Strong relevant experience from major firms / brands and relevant company experience
• Have a broad understanding of all aspects of commercial law with international experience
• Fluent/native in good spoken and written English with a good level of French being a benefit

• Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal skills
• Strong character able to defend contractual positioning
• Have excellent negotiation skills
• Have good attention to detail and proven drafting ability
• Confident and articulate
• Strong commercial instincts and the ability to work within a competitively challenging environment
• Able to develop solutions to complex legal questions
• Ability to work under pressure and deliver results
• Highly self-motivated and directed
• Collaborative and pro-active in style