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Legal Counsel – Salary circa £45,000
Are you someone who is ready to take the next step in your legal career? This is a great opportunity for a qualified lawyer who wants to build their commercial legal expertise in a supportive and fast-paced environment. Whether you've recently qualified or are looking to broaden your experience, you'll enjoy exposure to high quality commercial and regulatory distribution-related work solving complex problems and turning legal advice into practical business solutions. You'll work closely with colleagues across Aviva, build trusted relationships and gain exposure to strategic projects that help drive our growth.
A bit about the job
You’ll join a collaborative and supportive legal team which provides first class legal advice to Aviva’s UK General Insurance and Health businesses, working closely with colleagues across Legal, Compliance, Risk and the wider business. In this role, you’ll provide pragmatic, commercially focused legal advice and support on a broad range of distribution and commercial arrangements with partners, brokers, aggregators and other third parties across Aviva’s full suite of UKGI and Health products. You’ll build trusted relationships with stakeholders, draft and negotiate key agreements, and deliver clear, high-quality legal guidance in a fast-paced environment. You’ll also play an important role in enabling Aviva’s strategic priorities whilst identifying and mitigating legal risks, sharing best practice, and supporting effective business decision-making.
Skills & Experience required
- Solicitor, barrister or Chartered Legal Executive with the right to practise in the UK, bringing a strong commercial mindset and the ability to balance legal advice with business objectives.
- Proven experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts, with the ability to provide clear, concise and commercially focused legal advice. Experience of distribution, intermediary and/or partnership agreements as well as knowledge of the financial services sector, particularly insurance distribution, would be advantageous.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and work collaboratively across business functions and with external partners and advisers.
- Excellent communication, problem-solving and risk management capabilities, with the confidence to identify legal and regulatory issues early and support effective mitigation strategies.
- Able to manage a varied and demanding workload effectively while maintaining high standards of delivery.
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What you’ll get for this role:
Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.
- Salary circa £45,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
- Bonus opportunity 10% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.
- Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
- 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
- Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it
- Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
- Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
- Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
- Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
- Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
- We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools
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Aviva is for everyone:
We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.
We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending at least 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.
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We'd love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, or if you have any queries in relation to the vacancy, please send an email to beatrix.rozsa@aviva.com.
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