Legal Director - Pensions
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Job role: Legal Director
Hours: Part-time or full-time considered, Monday to Friday (16-37.5 hours per week)
Hill Dickinson are proud to be named as a Top Ten Employer for Working Families 2025 for the second year running and so, we are happy to consider flexible working opportunities to help you balance your work and home life.
Team: Pensions
Location: Leeds or Manchester
Benefits: At Hill Dickinson we understand that incentives go far beyond a good salary, so we have created a comprehensive benefits package tailored around our people.
Here Are Some Examples Of What We Offer
- 30 days annual leave
- Birthday privilege day and Christmas shutdown
- Holiday buy, sell and carryover scheme
- 2 charity volunteering or pro bono days
- Annual travel allowance
- Optional private medical insurance via BUPA
- Annual fitness allowance
- Flexible pension scheme
- Electric or hybrid vehicle lease scheme
- ISA saving scheme and independent financial advice
Role Overview
Introduction to the role:
An opportunity has arisen for a Legal Director to join our Pensions team in either Leeds or Manchester. The successful candidate will be confident in delivering advice and guidance on a range of pensions matters ensuring an exceptional level of service to clients.
Introduction To The Team
Our specialist Pensions team, led by Barry Gibb, is described as ‘extremely reliable, responsive and pragmatic’ by Legal 500, and is comprised of two further partners, Paula Warnock and Liz Graham, along with one legal director, two associates, one trainee and a legal administration assistant.
It is a successful and busy team with a thriving trustee practice along with advising a number of blue-chip corporate clients on a wide range of pension matters. Regularly working alongside city firms, the team engages in detailed, interesting work and is supported by a full-service commercial practice.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide clear pensions advice
- Advising both trustee and corporate clients
- Benefit change projects and de-risking exercises
- Drafting scheme documentation
- Interpreting rules, trustee powers and discretions
- Scheme funding negotiations and funding solutions
- Restructuring and winding up
- Buy-in and buy-out projects
- Pensions litigation
- Supervision and development of junior lawyers
What Are We Looking For
Important criteria:
- Qualified solicitor
- Proven pensions experience
- Ability to build strong relationships both internally and externally
- Experience in drafting complex scheme documentation
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Strong organisation skills with the ability to prioritise
- Proficient in use of legal document management systems
- Attention to detail
- Flexibility to support client development and attend networking events
If you don't meet all of the criteria above but feel that you could add real value to Hill Dickinson, we encourage you to submit an application and if successful, we can help you develop along the way.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Hill Dickinson is committed to providing fairness and equal opportunity for all regardless of age, gender, gender identity, ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital or transgender status, nationality, religion or belief.
We understand that our power as a firm comes from empowering our people and that it is only by encouraging and enabling individuals to be themselves at work that we can truly benefit from their rich and varied strengths.
Hill Dickinson is an equal opportunities employer. All applications received by the firm will be considered based on their merit alone and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background and from all routes to qualification, with both the SRA and CILEx.
Disability Support
We are a Disability Confident employer, which means if there is anything that we can do to make your visit easier, so you are able to perform at your best, please let us know. You can contact the HR team at hrteam@hilldickinson.com should you require any adjustments to the application or interview process.
At Hill Dickinson, we welcome applications from individuals that are looking to return to the law as well as all routes to qualification, with both the SRA and CILEx.
All successful candidates will be subject to our standard pre-employment screening, including a basic criminal record check via Disclosure and Barring Service. Any offer of employment made is conditional upon completion of all checks.
Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.