Group Legal Counsel

If successful, the UK & Ireland Group Legal Counsel would be responsible for supporting a wide range of commercial legal matters in the UK and Ireland, including commercial and contract law, supporting a number of departments across the business on company procedures, risk management, and compliance.

Job Scope

You will require awareness and detailed knowledge of:

• Contracts - common terms and conditions
• Commercial awareness - common causes of complaints and claims
• Dispute resolution
• Contract law

Key Responsibilities

• Commercial Contracts: Preparing, reviewing, and negotiating a broad range of commercial agreements (including goods and services agreements, master service agreements, and framework agreements) with customers and suppliers, aligning with legal standards and Matthew Algie’s values.
• Data Privacy: Supporting with subject access requests and ensuring marketing compliance.
• Regulatory Compliance and Governance: Staying ahead of UK legal developments, from data protection to the FCA, and ensuring such awareness/compliance across the business.
• Corporate Governance: Regulatory compliance, board governance, corporate structuring.
• Working with and managing external counsel supporting the team on varying projects/matter.
• Contributing to cross-jurisdictional legal teams from corporate housekeeping to reporting.
• Providing day-to-day advice to colleagues across the business on a wide variety of other commercial issues, working collaboratively to manage commercial transactions, identifying risks, and providing solutions-driven, commercial advice.
• Support in the management of insurance claims.
• Knowledge of legal principles, obligations, responsibility of international contracts law/ UK law.
• Work alongside various departments, including Purchasing, Sales, Tender, and Commercial teams.
• Responsibility for the Customer Contract Register and ensure contract tracker is in place initiating activity to have all customers in valid contract.
• Typing of correspondence such as letters, emails, and legal documentation.
• Assist in collecting and compiling compliance documentation for various standards and audits the company faces as a food, beverage, and distribution company.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications / Training

Essential:

• Qualified solicitor

Experience:

• Minimum 2 years PQE with strong experience with commercial contracts work.
• In-house experience desirable.
• Experience within the wholesale food and beverage industry beneficial but not essential.

Skills / Knowledge

• Degree Level Educated.
• Organised Manner.
• IT Competent.
• Skilled Communicator.
• Attention to detail.

Personal Attributes

• Excellent communication skills.
• Proactive.
• Self-motivated.
• Reliable.
• Organised.
• Efficient.
• Eager to learn.
• Detail focused.
• Analytical.

Application

If this sounds like you, then you could be the right fit for us! Please click APPLY, upload your CV, and we’ll be in touch as soon as we can.

Thanks, from the Team @ Matthew Algie

Equal Opportunities

We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all staff and job applicants. We aim to create a working environment in which all individuals are able to make the best use of their skills, free from discrimination or harassment, and in which all decisions are based on merit. Our selection for recruitment does not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnicity, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, or gender reassignment status (protected characteristics).