Solicitor

Job Title: Solicitor

Location: Coxon, Sedgefield

Contract: 12 months

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Rates: £42,500 - 52,500

Job Description

SRG are looking for a solicitor to join a tech innovation company based in Coxon, Sedgefield. As part of the role, you will provide inhouse legal support for the business needs.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Embrace and role model the desired behaviours to exemplify our Company values, promoting an ethical, positive company culture.
• To maintain consistent and documented compliance with all relevant Safety, Health and Environmental (SHE), Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), Data Integrity (DI), quality and best practice requirements.
• To assist in advising on corporate and commercial matters, co-ordinating and liaising with external legal support from the Group's panel on very complex matters.
• To provide contract law and intellectual property advice, including advising on terms and conditions, and assisting internal clients as one of the main legal points of contact for the extensive range of NDAs put in place across the business monthly.
• To assist in dealing with general commercial contracting matters
• Assist in relation to any disputes relating to breach of contract with staff, customers, partners, or third parties.
• With support and supervision, to assist the Legal Team in providing legal support to the HR team.
• To assist with providing legal training to Group staff on legal matters.
• To assist the Legal Team in providing creative legal advice across the full range of business activity where legal input (of all types) is required, which may include:

o Advanced transactional agreements including funding agreements, collaboration agreements, contractual joint ventures, and complex sales agreements.

o Corporate transactional advice, which may include transactions in relation to the disposal of subsidiaries, the attraction of investment into subsidiaries, corporate restructuring, membership models, and related due diligence matters.

o Property and construction law advice relating to the Group's current and any future premises.

o Commercial contentious matters pre-litigation with a view to early settlement, for example in relation to faulty goods and services or bad purchasing transactions. o Supporting the Procurement team on legal matters relating to purchasing and procurement law.

o General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) compliance.

o Subsidy Control compliance; and o Maintaining contractual legal templates used in the Group's business development, sale, and procurement activities.

• To work in such a way that complies with companies ISO 9001 procedures and with Solicitor's Regulatory Authority requirements.
• To assist in providing legal support on all corporate and commercial transactions whether directly or in conjunction with external lawyers on complex matters. Transactions may range from thousands of pounds up to several million pounds.
• To take direction and support from Senior Solicitor colleagues / the Legal Lead and from the Director of Legal on all matters that the Director of Legal decides require supervision or where there are intervening commercial interests.

Experience and Qualifications

• Educated to Degree level (or equivalent) in a business related or legal discipline.
• Must be either a chartered legal executive or a qualified solicitor in England and Wales with a current Practicing Certificate and no disciplinary history. A Solicitor must be of at least one years' PQE including CPD and SRA compulsory training modules.

Competencies and behaviours

Leadership

• Promotes commitment to our PRIDE values, strategy, vision, and direction.
• Motivates, inspires, and build resilience in others by making the vision shareable by everyone, and ensuring that teams are purposefully empowered in order to work efficiently.
• Rewards and celebrates success with colleagues and teams.
• Future proofs work practices.
• Trusts others' judgment and demonstrates radical thinking, including a willingness to try new things, even at the risk of failure.

Decision Making

• Confidently draws reliable conclusions from diverse and sometimes incomplete data.
• Proactively sources and refers to how others have tackled similar problems previously.
• Considers risks, and consequences, and takes accountability for, the impact the decision has on the business including costs/ benefits.

Collaboration

• Displays a collaborative style in day-to-day working whilst motivating others to achieve optimal performance and results.
• Fosters an inclusive atmosphere throughout their teams where ideas and creativity can thrive, and people feel empowered to be their whole selves.
• Develops relationships which facilitate the resolution of complex tasks and can apply different techniques to effectively mitigate any conflict.

Delivery

• Prepares and maintains schedules for activities and events for projects.
• Delegates responsibilities for tasks and decisions to the appropriate staff; sets SMART objectives and monitors progress, fostering an atmosphere of purposeful empowerment in order to allow teams to function efficiently.
• Researches capabilities and constraints, in advance of a project, which could affect its approach and outcomes.

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.