Internal Job Title:Interim Senior Commercial Counsel (5-month FTC)
Business:Lucy Group Ltd
Location: Oxford (Hybrid)
Job Reference No: 4117
Job Purpose:
As Interim Senior Commercial Counsel, reporting into the Lucy Group Head of Legal, this role requires a problem-solving and solutions oriented senior legal professional, and, as a senior member of the in-house Legal Department. The role is an active business partner and trusted adviser to the businesses and Group functions, able to work with colleagues at a number of different levels of the business.
Business Overview:
Lucy Group is a multinational private company based in Oxford, UK. Through our various businesses, we’re on a mission to enable the global shift to electrification and make the built environment sustainable. With around 1800 people across five continents and a turnover exceeding £400m, we’re growing rapidly, both organically and through acquisition.
Key Areas of Operation:
* Lucy Electric:electrical equipment, controls, and automation for medium and low voltage secondary power distribution.
* Lucy Controls:intelligent street lighting, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and smart city management solutions.
* Lucy Real Estate:sustainable living through residential property development, lettings and management, primarily in Oxfordshire.
Job Dimensions:
This role is responsible for providing commercial legal support to all Lucy Group companies under the direction of the Group Legal Department. The role holder will provide commercial legal advice and support to all Lucy Group companies on corporate, commercial, employment, property and intellectual property matters. It will support in areas such as tenders and contracts review, non-disclosure agreements and a broad range of other legal processes and documentation.
Key Accountabilities:
These will include:
* Advise the Lucy Electric and Lucy Controls businesses on a variety of legal matters including M&A, corporate, sales and purchasing commercial contracts, IP, IT and litigation, with minimal supervision.
* Support the Group Head of Legal with a review of tenders and contracts (both sales and procurement) for the various Lucy Group companies.
* Apply business and legal judgment to proposed deals, relationships, and other issues requiring legal or compliance attention.
* Manage external legal counsel, where required, to ensure advice is given in a timely and cost-effective manner and within budgetary constraints.
* Provide advice to operational teams on appropriate strategies in relation to disputes that have not yet been formalised.
* Ideally, advise on regulatory including international trade controls and data privacy law.
Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience
Minimum:
* Degree or equivalent – qualified lawyer
* Expert knowledge of company law, contract law, property and intellectual property law. Strong drafting and analytical skills
* Basic experience of coordinating the work of others (4 to 6 months)
* Excellence: Knows the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement. For example, pursues, explores, and develops ways to ensure own work is as effective as possible within all relevant processes. Shares an analysis of process problems with stakeholders; discusses how to resolve the issue.
* Trusted: Gains the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity. For example, demonstrates integrity, upholding professional codes of conduct. Instills trust by following through on agreements and commitments despite competing priorities and by being honest and straightforward.
* Working Together: Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. For example, finds many ways to add value to the team; probes to draw out richer input from others; is a valued resource who goes out of the way to help others.
* Daring to Differentiate: Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful. For example, constantly looks for new ideas and innovative ways of doing things; makes the effort to get involved in new areas. Offers original ideas and promising new solutions.
* Caring: Recognizes the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization. For example, grasps the uniqueness of each individual and challenges others who use stereotypes. Seeks out opportunities to learn and put into practice ideas from others with different perspectives, backgrounds, etc.
Technical Skills
* Policies, Processes and Procedures: Has sound knowledge of the policies, processes and procedures for their role and their department/function. Assists with developing and improving them and ensures the compliance of their respective policies, processes and procedures for their department/function. Assists with the development and creation of new policies, processes and procedures. No skill components assigned
* Policy and Regulation: Works at an advanced level to interpret and apply knowledge of laws, regulations and policies in the area of expertise. Typically works independently and provides guidance. No skill components assigned
* Planning, Prioritising and Organising: Applies comprehensive knowledge / skills to their day to day planning, prioritising and organising of their work, tasks and/or events including for the year ahead, ensuring business alignment where appropriate. Develops appropriate plans or performs necessary actions based on recommendations and requirements. Supports others in their planning, prioritising and organising activities.
* Data Management: Devises and implements master data management processes, including classification, security, quality, ethical principles, retrieval and retention processes. Derives data management structures and metadata to support consistency of information retrieval, combination, analysis, pattern recognition and interpretation, throughout the organisation. Plans effective data storage, sharing and publishing within the organisation. Independently validates external information from multiple sources. Assesses issues which might prevent the organisation from making maximum use of its information assets.
* Document Management: Works at an advanced level to use document management tools to manage, view, organize, and store documents. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
* Role Orientated Support: Works with expert competence to employ customer-oriented behaviours that help to connect with internal/external customers in productive and efficient ways, creating positive, defining moments and resolving any issues or answering any questions through to a suitable outcome. Able to offer specialist advice and guidance where necessary and give targeted training when required. Viewed as the departmental/functions SME in their field.
* Legal Research: Conduct research on specific legal issues and providing updates on new legislative changes affecting Lucy Group companies including via the legal pages on the group intranet.
* Microsoft Office Suite: Comfortable using the software and has a broad understanding of the functions including some advanced functions on some or all of the applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams)
* Analytical Skills: Evaluates the need for analytics, assesses the problems to be solved and what internal or external data sources to use or acquire. Specifies and applies appropriate mathematical, statistical, predictive modelling or machine-learning techniques to analyse data, generate insights, create value, and support decision-making. Manages reviews of the benefits and value of analytics techniques and tools and recommends improvements. Contributes to the development of analytics policy, standards and guidelines
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