Job Description

Legal Counsel

Derby (Three days Derby/hybrid)

Full time

Why join Rolls-Royce?

At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting, and connecting people everywhere.

By joining Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.

Position Summary

An exciting opportunity exists for a Legal Counsel – Commercial Aviation Contracting to join the team in Derby. This role will support a variety of activities, as required, across the Commercial Aviation Contracting team as part of the General Counsel team.

In this role you will provide legal support to Customer and Business Development Team in Civil Aerospace working as part of General Counsel in Civil Aerospace. The Commercial Aviation Contracting team comprises of three areas: Sales & Contracting, Engine Leasing and Future Programmes.

• Sales & Contracting team works as to support the contracting new business opportunities with our commercial airline customers across the globe.
• Engine Leasing team supports leasing of engines to customers and engine financing and exchange activity across the business.
• Future Programmes team in involved in a broad range of business development and contracting opportunities for new engine programmes and opportunities with aircraft manufacturers.

What you will be doing:

• Transaction support: Provide contract and commercial legal subject matter and business partner support and expertise for Customer Team activities across the Commercial Aviation Contracting team. This will include a degree of international travel, sometimes at short notice to support customer negotiations.
• Legal advice: Deliver timely, cost effective, pro-active, and technically correct legal advice in a user friendly and decisive manner.
• Risk management: At all phases of our transactions, identify and assess potential risks and liabilities proposing and negotiating solutions to manage, minimise or mitigate such risks or liabilities whilst achieving the expected financial returns.
• Tools development: Assist the team in the development of new precedent documents, fallback positions, and playbooks to assist in the efficient deployment of our products and services to customers.
• Training and learning: Develop and implement training and knowledge management, deploying best practice and actively sharing knowledge with colleagues in the legal function and the business.
• External law firm management: Secure support from and manage interaction, as appropriate, with our external law firms in a cost-efficient manner.
• Relationship building: Work closely with internal clients, building and maintaining strong and collaborative relationships across all businesses and functions.