William Grant & Sons
Legal Counsel - 6 Month FTC
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Role Description
You will provide front-line legal support to senior leaders across our Operations, Central Services and Global Technology Business Units, providing pragmatic, risk-based legal advice and acting as a trusted business partner. Your key focus will be commercial and IT contracts, but you will also support compliance and advance the Company’s CSR and legal compliance agenda across the operational teams. This means one day you might be advising on a framework agreement for the purchase of luxury packaging; then negotiating a major technology transformation contract; and then advising the business on the latest packaging legislation. In a fast-paced, dynamic business, pretty much any and every type of legal work is in scope. You won’t be on your own though. There is an internal legal team you can lean on to support you and you’ll instruct and work with external counsel too.
What We Can Offer You
- Competitive salary and benefits designed to promote employees' financial wellbeing
- Bonus plan eligibility
- Generous holiday entitlement with an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement
- Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service)
- Defined contribution pension plan
- Employee Assistance Programme offering support on everyday matters
- Life Assurance cover, a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary
- Product allocation to enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities
- Learning resources to help you be your best self
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Main Responsibilities
You will provide front-line legal support to senior leaders across our Operations, Central Services and Global Technology Business Units, providing pragmatic, risk-based legal advice and acting as a trusted business partner. Your key focus will be commercial and IT contracts, but you will also support compliance and advance the Company’s CSR and legal compliance agenda across the operational teams. This means one day you might be advising on a framework agreement for the purchase of luxury packaging; then negotiating a major technology transformation contract; and then advising the business on the latest packaging legislation. In a fast-paced, dynamic business, pretty much any and every type of legal work is in scope. You won’t be on your own though. There is an internal legal team you can lean on to support you and you’ll instruct and work with external counsel too.
Our Ideal Candidate
- Top performer in every place you’ve studied and worked
- Curious, inquisitive, ambitious, and enjoys challenges
- Self-starter, confident but not arrogant
- Savvy communicator who knows how to find the right answers
- Energy and a desire to have fun at work
- 3-5 years of practising law with significant commercial contracts experience
- Looking for an opportunity to broaden skills and try something new
About William Grant & Sons
A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS
William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.
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We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience, and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.
At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience, and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.
OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY
Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.
INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive.
This vacancy is being advertised directly by William Grant & Sons. Unauthorised copying, reposting, or distribution of this advert by job boards, aggregators, or recruitment agencies is not permitted without prior written approval.
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