Michael Page
Interim Legal Counsel
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An excellent opportunity for an experienced Interim Legal Counsel
An excellent opportunity for an experienced Interim Legal Counsel to join a household name in Northamptonshire on an immediate 2 to 3 month assignment. The initial focus will be working through a backlog of commercial contracts and agreements, alongside providing broader legal support across the organisation.
This is a full time hybrid role requiring 1 to 2 days per week in the office.
Client Details
Our client is a large, purpose led charity operating across a diverse and complex organisation. Its legal team supports a wide variety of operational, commercial, property, governance and regulatory matters, giving the successful lawyer excellent exposure to senior stakeholders and genuinely varied work.
This is an opportunity to use your commercial legal expertise within an organisation where the work has a clear wider purpose and where pragmatic, commercially minded advice is highly valued.
Description
The Interim Legal Counsel will be:
- Taking ownership of a backlog of commercial contracts and agreements across the organisation, drafting, reviewing and negotiating a broad range of supplier and operational contracts
- Providing practical legal advice on commercial relationships, tenders, contractual risk, disputes, licensing, funding, sponsorship and other business agreements
- Supporting the wider legal team with commercial property matters including leases, renewals, licences, assignments, disposals and property projects where experience allows
- Advising senior stakeholders on legal risk, governance, regulatory compliance and emerging legal developments
- Supporting broader matters including data protection, healthcare regulation, charity law, complaints, regulatory issues and contract management where required
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Profile
The Interim Legal Counsel should be:
- A solicitor or equivalent with substantial post qualification experience
- An experienced commercial contracts lawyer who can independently draft, review and negotiate a broad range of agreements
- Able to quickly assess contractual risk, prioritise a busy workload and provide clear, pragmatic advice to non legal stakeholders
- Ideally experienced within an in house legal team, charity, healthcare, public sector or similarly regulated organisation
- Additional experience across commercial property, charity law, governance, regulatory matters or healthcare would be highly advantageous
- Immediately available or able to start at very short notice
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Job Offer
This is an immediate 2 to 3 month interim opportunity offering a varied workload within a highly regarded national charity.
The role provides hybrid working with only 1 to 2 days per week in the office and the chance to take ownership of a substantial commercial contracts workload while also gaining exposure to a much broader in house legal remit.
If you're an experienced Interim Legal Counsel, apply now or contact Michael Bailey for more information.
Desired Skills and Experience
Interim Legal Counsel, Commercial Contracts, Contract Law, In House Legal, Charity Law, Commercial Property, Property Law, Regulatory Compliance, Governance, Data Protection, Healthcare Law, Legal Risk, Contract Management, Supplier Agreements, Northamptonshire
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