Job Description
Legal Counsel
Wotton under Edge/Hybrid working (office based a minimum of 3 days a week, 45 minutes from Bristol and Cheltenham)
£70-£85,000, depending on experience
Renishaw is a global leader in precision engineering, manufacturing, and technology innovation. With a strong heritage in advanced manufacturing and metrology, we deliver cutting-edge solutions across industries including aerospace, automotive, healthcare, and electronics.
We are currently recruiting for a Legal Counsel at our UK head office to become part of our global legal, compliance and secretarial team (“L&S”).
Person specification
As part of the L&S team, your focus will be providing pragmatic legal advice and support across a wide variety of corporate and commercial matters, while supporting our core values of Innovation, Inspiration, Integrity and Involvement.
You will have superior interpersonal skills to influence and inform your stakeholders, both within the L&S team and the wider business.
Key responsibilities
1. Support the business on range of corporate legal matters, including corporate and strategic transactions
2. Review, draft, and negotiate high-value, complex commercial contracts with customers, sales intermediaries, suppliers, service providers, and other key business partners
3. Support the business with responses to tenders and customer queries
4. Support on L&S change and process improvement projects that underpin the business’s key objectives across multiple disciplines
5. Support the business with day-to-day legal queries and issues
6. Assist in maintaining templates, playbooks, procedures, and other know-how materials
7. Provide practical solutions to complex legal problems as a key business partner
8. Procure and manage external specialist counsel (as required)
9. Support more senior lawyers as required, both in the UK and internationally
10. Contribute to the growth of the L&S team by sharing knowledge, delivering training, mentoring the legal graduate and legal apprentice, and supporting the onboarding of new colleagues
11. Conduct legal research as necessary
Key requirements
12. Qualified solicitor with 2 - 5 years PQE and experience in delivering pragmatic legal advice in a demanding environment
13. Strong commercial awareness and negotiation skills
14. Excellent attention to detail and drafting skills
15. Superior analytical skills and a creative, flexible approach to problem solving
16. An ability to interact with people at all levels in the business
17. Impeccable integrity, a ‘can do’ attitude, and a willingness and ability to lead by example
18. An appetite to learn continually and share your experience and knowledge.
Desirable
Experience in any of the following areas of law:
19. Real estate and property
20. Construction
21. Employment
22. M&A
23. An understanding of the challenges of a fast-moving, revenue generating business (ideally with experience in-house in the technology, manufacturing and/or engineering sectors).
Benefits
When you join Renishaw, we're committing to your future career. That's because we believe in developing our people's skills and promoting them internally. We also offer a benefits package that's highly desirable; including a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, *subsidised onsite restaurants and *coffee shops, free parking, *car sharing scheme and *24 hour fitness centres. ( not available at all sites).
We also want to promote a healthy work-life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a hybrid working policy which allows for a combination of home and office based working depending on the nature of your role. We also offer a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, Health Cash Plan, the option to join BUPA Renishaw Health Trust and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.
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Employment Type:
Permanent
Time Type:
Full time
Requisition Number:
R9019 Legal Counsel (Open)