Legal Advisor

We are currently recruiting for a Legal Advisor to join our Reading based client. The Legal Advisor is accountable for the negotiation, onboarding, contract performance delivery and governance of strategic partnerships, ensuring a quality service is provided to the business across all requirements. You will ideally have a minimum of 1 years' experience in a similar role

• Location: Reading, hybrid working availablewith a minimum of 2 days in the office
• Working Hours: Mon - Fri, 9am - 5.30pm
• Salary: Maximum of £60000

Your role as a Legal Advisor will be to:

• Transaction support: working on low level commercial matters such as draft contract documents, non-disclosure agreements, letters of engagement, amendments and extensions
• Document management (including filing), updating and inputting to the risk register and contract management system together with managing the signature process
• Legal diary management and organisation
• Prepare, review and negotiate a variety of commercial contracts and documentation (SLA's, KPI's, Intellectual Property protections) to assist and support various business activities. Identifying, quantifying and mitigating risks, escalating as appropriate and aligning risk with business strategy
• Assisting the legal team in legal governance and embedding best practice across the organisation

Experience and skills required for the Legal Advisor:

• Ideally suited for a newly qualified Solicitor
• A minimum of 1 year's experience in a similar role
• Excellent relationship management and communication skills necessary for interaction with internal and external customers.
• Knowledge of, and experience in contract negotiation, preparation and administration
• A sound working knowledge in commercial contract law, including relevant commercial aspects relating to suppliers and strategic partnerships (GDPR, Intellectual Property, SLA's)

For more information, please contact Julie Harding on 0118 956 7064 /