Job reference 337235
In house Senior Legal Advisor - Commercial Transactions
Competitive salary plus £5,500 car allowance, healthcare, 18% annual bonus potential, 27.5 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising with service and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
Permanent, Full time
Royal Mail Sheffield/ London
Royal Mail is looking for an experienced Senior Legal Advisor with an expertise in Commercial Transactions to join our Group Legal (GL) function. In this pivotal role, you'll support a broad range of commercial and technology transactions, helping shape how the organisation delivers strategic, operational and contractual outcomes across the UK Group.
About the Role
As a key member of the Commercial Transactions Team, you will provide high-quality, commercially focused legal advice across a wide portfolio of commercial and tech matters. You'll work closely with stakeholders from across the business to ensure all transactions are delivered efficiently, meet required risk profiles, and align with Royal Mail's strategic and commercial objectives. You'll also play an important role in developing self-service tools, training stakeholders, driving continuous improvement, and using management information to support better decision‑making.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide clear, robust and commercially focused legal support on a wide range of commercial and technology transactions.
* Ensure transactions are delivered efficiently, on time and to an agreed risk profile.
* Understand Royal Mail's strategic and operational needs and help shape legal solutions that enable the business to achieve its goals.
* Work collaboratively with teams across Group Legal and with functions including Procurement, CoSec, Property, Finance, Investor Relations, DPO, Group Tax and Communications.
* Build strong relationships with business stakeholders to support effective engagement and outcomes.
* Develop and promote self‑serve tools and on‑demand solutions to streamline legal support.
* Lead training programmes and produce guidance to upskill colleagues on commercial law topics.
* Support continuous improvement initiatives, including enhancing reporting and MI usage to drive efficiency and reduce risk.
* Manage outsourced legal matters, ensuring quality and value for money.
About You
You are a commercially minded legal professional who can simplify complexity and provide clear, pragmatic advice. You are comfortable working in a fast‑paced environment and engaging with stakeholders across diverse business areas. You enjoy collaborating widely, driving change and identifying opportunities to improve how legal support is delivered.
What You'll Bring
* Qualified solicitor with 5+ years' post‑qualification experience in commercial transactions.
* Strong organisational skills with a focus on execution and delivery.
* Excellent communication, presentation and negotiation skills.
* Ability to operate flexibly across a broad range of commercial contracts and stakeholders.
* High level of comfort with technology and digital tools.
* Experience supporting Technology contracts would be beneficial but not essential.
Extra Benefits
* Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
* Supportive and generous company sick pay
* Funded Dental - As a manager you are eligible to a level of employer funded dental insurance
* Health Assessment - As a manager you are eligible to an employer funded health assessment every 2 years
* Benefits Account - You will have access to your personal benefits account on our 'My Bundle+' platform. There are more than 800 retail offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills as well as employer provided and voluntary benefits to suit your lifestyle.
* Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It's free, and it's for everyone.
Available only to permanent employees
Next Steps
The next stage of the selection process will be a virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions. We plan to hold interviews on w/c 27th April.
Trust is the foundation of Royal Mail. We aim to be transparent about the qualities we seek and what a career with us entails, building trust from the start of your journey with us. Your interview is the first step, and we want you to shine. To help you prepare, we'll provide your interview questions in advance, so you can have your best examples ready. At Royal Mail Group, we value trust and our people.
We understand that candidates may not meet all the criteria for the role. If your experience is different, but you have relevant skills we'd love to hear from you.
Royal Mail Group is committed to inclusion and representing the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all individuals. As a proud Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant, we especially encourage applications from the Armed Forces community, including cadet instructors and spouses/partners.
We are committed to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to support you during the hiring process, please discuss these with your recruiter when contacted.
We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.
For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/
Closing Date: 12th April. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.
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