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Location: Cardiff
Salary: £60,000 – £70,000
NQ - 4PQE Legal Counsel
The opportunity
TSR Legal are currently recruiting for a NQ - 4PQE Legal Counsel to join the growing in-house legal team. This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded lawyer who enjoys working closely with the business, providing practical legal advice and helping teams navigate a broad range of commercial matters.
You will work alongside senior stakeholders across sales, procurement, technology, finance, operations, and other business functions, acting as a trusted legal partner and helping the organisation achieve its commercial objectives while managing legal and contractual risk.
This is a varied role with significant exposure to the wider business and the opportunity to make a real impact within a fast-paced, international environment.
Key responsibilities
- Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements, including customer, supplier, partnership, SaaS, technology, and services agreements.
- Provide clear, pragmatic, and commercially focused legal advice to stakeholders across the business.
- Support sales and procurement teams throughout the contract lifecycle, from initial review through to negotiation and execution.
- Identify, assess, and manage legal and contractual risks, escalating material issues where appropriate.
- Advise on contractual terms including liability, indemnities, warranties, intellectual property, confidentiality, data protection, termination, and governing law.
- Develop and maintain standard contracts, templates, playbooks, and legal guidance.
- Support the business with contract management processes and help improve legal workflows and efficiency.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues across Legal, Compliance, Privacy, Finance, Sales, Procurement, Technology, and Operations.
- Monitor relevant legal and regulatory developments and advise the business on their potential impact.
- Support wider legal and strategic projects as required.
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About You
We are looking for a qualified solicitor or lawyer with strong commercial experience, ideally gained within an in-house legal team or a commercial law firm.
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You will have
- Strong experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts.
- A practical, solution-oriented approach to legal advice.
- The ability to understand commercial priorities and balance them against legal and regulatory risk.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Confidence working independently and managing competing priorities.
- Strong attention to detail without losing sight of the bigger picture.
- The ability to explain complex legal issues clearly to non-lawyers.
- Experience working with technology, SaaS, data, professional services, or other B2B commercial arrangements would be advantageous.
- A collaborative approach and the confidence to build effective relationships across a business.
Apply now
On offer is the opportunity to join a leading firm, who can offer a broad range of commercial work, extensive benefit package, as well as excellent working environment.
If you believe you have the skill set required, please contact Ryan at TSR Legal on 07554 389913 or ryan@tsrlegal.co.uk confidentially.
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