Job Description
Legal Counsel
Wotton under Edge - located approximately 45 minutes from Bristol and Cheltenham
Hybrid working (office based a minimum of 3 days a week)
Up to £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 as part of our global legal and secretarial team (“L&S”).
You will report to the Group Legal Director based in our head office in the UK and work closely with senior stakeholders, including divisional and functional heads.
Person specification
As part of the L&S team, your focus will be providing pragmatic legal advice while supporting our core values of Innovation, Inspiration, Integrity and Involvement.
You will have strong technology law experience and be adept at negotiating commercial contracts to reduce legal risk in a dynamic and complex business environment.
You will have superior interpersonal skills to influence and inform your stakeholders, both within the L&S team and wider business.
Key responsibilities
1. Act as a key contact and advisor for stakeholders in a range of business units and corporate support departments as a subject matter expert for software, AI, cyber security, e-commerce and other technology law areas, and also assisting with general day-to-day legal queries and issues.
2. Review, draft and negotiate high-value, complex commercial contracts with customers, sales intermediaries, suppliers and other key business partners.
3. Support L&S change projects that underpin the business’s key objectives across multiple disciplines.
4. Assist in maintaining the L&S team’s templates, precedents, and other know-how materials.
5. Provide practical solutions to complex legal problems as an experienced business partner.
6. Address a broad range of legal and business issues while maintaining clear priorities and meeting deadlines.
7. Support the Group Legal Director and other senior lawyers as required, both in the UK and internationally.
8. Contribute to the growth of the L&S team by sharing knowledge, delivering training, mentoring more junior colleagues, and supporting the onboarding of new colleagues.
Key requirements
9. Qualified solicitor (England and Wales) with 3 - 5 years’ experience in delivering pragmatic legal advice in a demanding private practice or in-house business environment.
10. Strong commercial contract expertise, with particular emphasis on open source and commercial software licensing, SaaS subscriptions, e-commerce, and data processing agreements.
11. Experience and confidence navigating and applying AI, cyber security (e.g. CRA, NIS2) and other regulations in the technology sector.
12. Superior analytical skills and a creative, flexible approach to problem solving.
13. An ability to interact with people at all levels in the business.
14. Impeccable integrity and a willingness and ability to lead by example.
15. Strong attention to detail and drafting expertise.
16. A “can do” attitude and a deep understanding of the challenges of a fast-moving, revenue generating business.
17. An appetite to learn continually and share your experience and knowledge.
Desirable
Additional experience in one of the following areas of law would be beneficial:
o Mergers and acquisitions
o Property and construction
o Employment
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)