Paralegal
Location: Hybrid/Doncaster (DN4 5JQ)
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Salary: £26,000 - £30,000 per annum dependent on experience,
Benefits: plus 22 days holiday, pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme
About the Job
As a valued member of the Legal team, you will assist in delivering daily legal support to the business across all capabilities and sectors. You’ll support the Company Secretarial team, advising on governance, ethics, regulatory and compliance issues.
Here at Unipart, we don’t just have a way of working, we have The Unipart Way. It allows everyone in our team to pursue their own personal and professional goals to a world class level, through Unipart’s ‘From Gate to Great’ training and development program.
As a Paralegal you will support the legal safeguarding and governance, risk and compliance framework of Unipart.
As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:
• Carry out initial contract reviews and provide legal advice, either alone or alongside colleagues in the Commercial Contracts team
• Review and negotiate NDAs, apprenticeship agreements, collaboration agreements and other similar contracts
• Undertake legal research
• Draft ancillary documents for share and/or business sales and purchases
• Assist with the management of professional subscriptions and licences
• Proofread documents, deal with signature and execution, co-ordinate the Legal team shared drive and contract management system
• Ensure the prevention of the business signing up to onerous commercial and/or legal obligations in contracts
• Attend training webinars or sessions and feed back to the team/knowledge sharing
• Ensure the adherence to Unipart’s governance processes and delegated authorities
• Ensure template and precedent documents are up to date and fit for purpose and assist with the implementation of these within the business
• Assist with the delivery of training to Unipart colleagues
• Support the roll out of new legal tools and smarter ways of working
• Provide legal support for disputes and litigation including debt collection claims
• Work with external law firms and advisors; manage billing and field queries
About You
We’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in this role!
Essential
• Law degree or experience in a paralegal/legal administrator role in an in-house legal team or commercial law firm
• A desire to progress in a career as a paralegal
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to glean information, appreciate its importance and communicate matters clearly to colleagues of all levels across the business
• Organised, self-motivated and able to work with minimal supervision
• Able to accept and follow instructions, listen, make notes, question appropriately and co-operate
• Adaptable and able to balance a varied and wide-ranging workload
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• A team player who is positive, reliable, enthusiastic and proactive
Desirable
• Precise and detailed drafting and research skills with the ability to identify, assess and advise on key legal and business risks, knowing when to escalate issues as they arise
• An understanding of the key principles of contract, commercial and corporate law
• Knowledge of the rail industry, logistics, technology and/or manufacturing sectors
• Knowledge of the digital sector and interest in intellectual property matters
• Corporate governance or company secretarial experience
Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and do your best work every day.
You may also have experience in the following: Paralegal, Construction law, Legal Assistant, Administrative Support, Administrator, Legal Executive, Legal Secretary, Legal Administrator, Law Graduate, Legal Graduate, etc.
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