Sopra Steria
Senior Legal Counsel
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Looking to join a collaborative and supportive team? The role of Senior Legal Counsel provides pragmatic, commercial and risk-based legal advice to support the company’s technology, digital transformation, outsourcing and managed services business. The role requires partnership with the business to enable growth while managing legal, regulatory and reputational risk.
This is a hybrid role with occasional office presence required in our London office.
What you will be doing:
- Commercial Contracting - Draft, review and negotiate customer, supplier and partner agreements, supporting complex technology transactions.
- Technology and Regulatory Advice - Advising on technology law matters including safe adoption of AI tools, Intellectual property, Data protection and privacy and Cyber security.
- Procurement and Public Sector Support - Advising on public procurement law and procurement processes and supporting bids.
- Company Secretarial /Corporate Governance - Experience with company boards, minute taking, filings with Companies House, Corporate Governance (large private entity) and M&A
- Legal Department Operations - Self-service for business and Document standardisation
- Stakeholder Engagement - Build strong relationships with business leaders across sales, procurement, delivery, finance, HR, security and operations and participate in commercial and operational decision making.
- Governance and Risk Management - Identifying and managing legal and regulatory risks and supporting corporate governance initiatives.
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What you’ll bring:
- Qualified to practise law in the UK or in another common law jurisdiction,
- Registered Lawyer with at least four years’ experience
- Experience of technology and / or digital transformation is essential.
- General commercial legal counsel experience
- Previous experience of legal practice involving public sector contracts is desirable.
- Excellent stakeholder management, including internal clients, opposition stakeholders and external supporting law firms.
If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you! Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.
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