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In GCT, we’re keen to have you on board if you are a great team player and willing to learn quickly. It’s a fantastic opportunity to gain real, hands-on experience in a law firm.

As Senior Legal Advisor, you will be responsible for providing legal, commercial and contractual advice, combined with an understanding of IM’s regulatory landscape, and at times in a strategic setting. Your advice will support the IM Group entities to remain compliant with its contractual, regulatory and legal obligations. You will need to develop a strong understanding of core operational areas of GCT, including In-House Legal (IHL) and others, and the wider business (including our Practice Areas and Group Services). Your key responsibilities and accountabilities will include:

1. Review, advise on and negotiate a variety of contracts including (non-exhaustive) supplier, SaaS, consultancy, sponsorship, legal panel and referral agreements within the contracting parameters and risk appetite set by IM’s Group entities
2. Support the management of legal operations, including the triage and delegation of all new queries received into the IHL inbox, supporting other colleagues as necessary
3. Resolve BAU and ad-hoc queries on a daily basis with a particular focus on commercial and strategic enablement, and deal with complex queries with guidance and supervision
4. Understand key operations of each Practice Area and Group Services and ensure legal advice is contextual, pragmatic and commercial
5. Maintain strong relationships with stakeholders across the IM Group
6. Identify and explore opportunities to build and integrate legal operational efficiencies in IHL and GCT
7. Identify and escalate potential risks, compliance or reputational concerns
8. Develop a strong understanding of the day-to-day operations of IHL and the commercial appetite of each IM Group entity
9. Develop a strong understanding of key regulators underpinning the operations of each IM Group entity, e.g., SRA, FCA, ICO, ASA, CAP rules, relevant legislation and guidance
10. Undertake legal research and identify any relevant legal and regulatory changes that may impact IM Group
11. Support GCT and wider firm projects
12. Meet personal KPIs and work as part of a team to ensure GCT meets its wider KPIs
13. Be commercially enabling when responding to and resolving queries
14. Demonstrate Irwin Mitchell’s key values / behaviours in daily work

About You

Your Role

Proven experience in reviewing, advising on and drafting a variety of commercial contracts, along with a friendly, enthusiastic, personable and can-do approach. Great communication skills, both written and verbal, are essential. You should have good initiative to work independently and as part of a team, with strong time management and attention to detail. Building and maintaining strong relationships across the IM Group is crucial.

We’re proud of our values, and we’re looking for people who share them:

• To be pioneering with an imaginative outlook
• To be approachable and caring
• To be tenacious in the pursuit of our objectives
• To be efficient in the provision of our services
• To work with a foundation of integrity

If this sounds like you, we’d love to receive your application.

Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.

We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!

Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.

Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.