COMMERCIAL LAWYER BIRMINGHAM OR MANCHESTER Role Overview Vario is a market leading alternative legal services provider within the law firm, Pinsent Masons. It is unique in the legal sector. Vario is a practice group within Pinsent Masons which incorporates; Flexible Services, Consulting and Technology, Legal Project Management and Managed Legal Services (MLS). This role sits within our MLS team. Our MLS team design outcome focussed solutions with clients, combining high quality, flexible and agile people with tech to meet these needs. Our clients achieve more through simplification, standardisation and automation of their processes and documents. The Commercial Lawyer is responsible for supporting our clients by utilising our industry experience, knowledge of the client and our legal skills to provide solution focussed advice and outcomes. We have deep relationships with our clients and take the time to understand their business, their needs, and their operating environment. Through our bank of international legal experts, our industry insight and our ability to interrogate data, we provide our clients with meaningful insights, efficiencies and improvements with regards to their contracting methods, legal spend and general risk management. This is an exciting time to join a newly established team with a high growth trajectory. Our standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, however, we are happy to consider flexible working requests. Candidate Overview We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience: Qualified Lawyer with 3 - 5 yearsâ PQE gained within a busy private practice or inhouse legal team Strong commercial awareness and a solid understanding of industry trends, risk mitigation and able to recognise and drive efficiencies Technical excellence in drafting, reviewing, negotiating and advising on a wide range of mainstream commercial contracts work Highly responsive, able to manage to deadlines and strong stakeholder management skills Familiar and comfortable with working with technology for document drafting, review and matter management Experience of working on data protection advice would be advantageous but not essential Experience of working on contract repapering or harmonisation projects would be advantageous but not essential Experience within the financial services industry would be advantageous but not essential What can we offer you? Agile working (the opportunity to work from home, subject to diary commitments) Carersâ leave (up to five paid daysâ leave towards caring responsibilities) 25 daysâ annual leave entitlement and the opportunity to purchase or roll over 5 days Contributory pension of up to 5% Private healthcare policy Death in service cover (4 x base salary) Eligibility to apply for an interest free season ticket loan, an interest free gym membership loan and/or an interest free rental deposit loan Cycle to work scheme What happens next? Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email. We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate. Our strength lies in our differences. We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a founding member of the Mindful Business Charter, signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. Itâs with different perspectives that weâll find solutions to our clientsâ most complex challenges. Itâs how weâll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents. Our in-house recruiter, Victoria Greaves, would be happy to have an informal chat about this role, provide this job advert or our application form in an alternative format, and/or discuss any reasonable adjustments to be made either during the recruitment process or after offer stage. You can contact Victoria by emailing careerspinsentmasons.com LI-VG1