Senior Legal Counsel

Job Description Summary

Senior Legal Counsel

Home based/ flexible location

Able to consider reduced hours – 4 days/ week if preferred

As a Senior Legal Counsel, you will join our dynamic and collaborative Capita Legal Team reporting to the Head of Legal and have specific responsibility for our technology commercial contracts.

You will be a trusted legal business partner who builds good relationships with key stakeholders and works independently but as part of a team. You will have excellent communication and drafting skills, with attention to detail and accuracy. You will have a technology commercial contract experience, preferably in an in-house role, experience with the likes of Amazon, Azur, Salesforce and Google.

You will enjoy a competitive salary, and a flexible location, as the role is home based. You will also benefit from our diverse and inclusive culture, our learning and development opportunities, and our employee benefits and rewards.

Capita’s lawyers are hardworking, collaborative, resilient and friendly, and we would welcome applications from like-minded people who are interested in joining the team.

Job Description

What we’re looking for:

Essential:

• Qualified UK lawyer in- house with experience in technology contracts to support the design and sale of technology – this would suit PQE 5 – 8 years
• Legal commercial contracts specialist with technology contracting experience of selling products through hypers scalers, experience of automation, IPR and AI

In addition you will also have:

• Able to demonstrate good data protection knowledge
• Must have experience of reviewing, negotiating and drafting bespoke contracts not just working on industry standard form contracts.

What you’ll be doing:

• Providing accurate, timely and pragmatic legal advice.
• Reviewing, drafting and negotiating mutually beneficial relationships with relevant third parties in line with the governance framework and Capita preferred positions (where available).
• Drafting standard governance policies and procedures and corporate legal templates.
• Briefing the Head of Legal) on contractual relationships of concern, other areas of legal risk and opportunities.
• Stakeholder management, which includes a close working relationship within GSS and wider organisation.
• Liaising with business to provide proactive corporate legal support for all corporate activity, including finance, regulatory and mergers and acquisitions.
• Making judicious decisions on deviations from Capita preferred positions, with escalations to relevant individuals where appropriate.
• Contributing to the maintenance of precedents, template agreements and know-how..
• Assisting with internal reporting and ad-hoc projects.

About Capita

Capita is an outsource, helping clients across the public and private sectors run complex business processes more efficiently, creating better consumer experiences.

Operating across 8 countries, Capita’s 34,000 colleagues support primarily UK and European clients with people-based services underpinned by market-leading technology.

We’re a vital support service for our clients, enabling the everyday interactions that we expect to run seamlessly, to run seamlessly.

Check out our website www.capita.com for more information

What’s in it for you?

• 23 days’ holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave
• company matched pension, life assurance, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks…and plenty more
• volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice - opportunity to take a paid day out of the office
• access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform
• opportunity to gain additional qualifications through our Learning Academy or apprenticeships to help develop your career

Unlock Your Potential with Capita

At Capita, your career can take you wherever your ambition leads. You'll become part of a diverse network of talented, forward-thinking professionals working across a wide range of disciplines and sectors. We’re committed to your growth — offering endless opportunities to expand your skills, explore new paths, and advance your career.

Join us and discover a career with purpose. #CareersWithPurpose

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What we hope you’ll do next:

Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

We’re truly committed to building a diverse and representative workforce and as part of our strategic plans we are aiming to accelerate gender and ethnic representation in leadership. As such we would particularly welcome applications from people who are female and/or are from Black, Asian and other ethnic minority backgrounds.

We’re an equal opportunity and Disability Confident employer, which means we recruit and develop people based on their merit and passion. We’re committed to providing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and working environment for everyone. If you need the job description or application form in an alternative format (such as large print or audio), or if you’d like to discuss other changes or support you might need going forward, please email [email protected] and we’ll get back to you. For more information about equal opportunities and process adjustments, please visit the Capita Careers website.