Why this role is important for CPI’s
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CPI has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Solicitor to join their established and growing legal team. Reporting to General Counsel & Company Secretary, the Senior Solicitor will be responsible for providing comprehensive and advanced, in-house legal support to the CPI Group of Companies.
The Role
Key tasks in the role will include (but are not limited to the below), please download the job description for full details available on the CPI careers page:
1. To effectively manage the team’s goals and performance, sharing and translating area strategy, ensuring identification and delivery of departmental goals, through utilisation of appropriate management styles, providing feedback and motivation to team members and enabling individuals to meet their potential. This includes providing strong managerial support, performance management, and recruitment, development, and allocation of resource to ensure project delivery and longer-term planning of deliverables.
2. To progressively provide supporting day-to-day intellectual property, commercial and contract law advice, mainly assisting internal clients in relation to confidentiality agreements, standard contractual terms, and on bespoke advanced transactional agreements including funding agreements, collaboration agreements, contractual joint ventures, and complex sales agreements.
3. To provide creative legal advice across the full range of business activity where legal input (of all types) is required, which may include:
4. Corporate transactional advice, which may include transactions in relation to the disposal of subsidiaries, the attraction of investment into subsidiaries, corporate restructuring, membership models, and related due diligence matters;
5. Intellectual property advice;
6. Property and construction law advice relating to the Group’s current and any future premises
7. Commercial contentious matters pre-litigation with a view to early settlement, for example in relation to faulty goods and services or bad purchasing transactions
8. Supporting the Governance team on legal matters relating to purchasing, procurement law and subsidy control;
9. Supporting the HR team on matters related to employment law;
10. Maintaining contractual legal templates used in the Group’s business development, and procurement activities; and
11. Providing advice on regulatory matters.
12. To deliver legal training to Group staff on confidentiality, intellectual property, contractual matters, and any other areas of law where required.
The person we are seeking
Must be educated to Degree level (or equivalent) in a business or legal subject, be a qualified solicitor in England and Wales with a current Practising Certificate and;
13. Have substantial experience of working in a commercial law firm, or in industry as an in-house lawyer
14. Have experience of complex commercial contract matters
15. Have proven experience of managing direct reports, or as a minimum day to day supervision of legal work
16. Have experience of working in a cross-functional role, interfacing with people at all levels within a business
17. Have an up to date understanding of intellectual property and contract/ commercial law and best legal and commercial practice in a business environment
18. Have experience in high value and/ or complex transactions, including with overseas companies
19. Possess the ability to provide quality legal advice with a commercial slant in line with business objectives
20. Demonstrate an understanding of the commercial realities and needs of a business
21. Have experience of dealing with a wide range of matters creatively
22. Have extensive experience of dealing with confidentiality and secrecy arrangements
23. Possess knowledge of basic contracts in an intellectual property context
What does CPI offer you?
At CPI, we offer a wide range of benefits to our employees, this includes:
24. Up to 36 days holiday, including bank holidays – Plus a holiday purchasing scheme
25. Generous pension scheme
26. Life assurance and accident insurance schemes
27. Flexible working
28. Learning and Development Opportunities
29. Free parking