Commercial Contracts Lawyer London or Nottingham

This is an interesting in-house commercial legal role supporting projects across a progressive data technology business. The small team works at the heart of the business with responsibility for legal and contractual review.

Responsibilities

• Draft, develop and negotiate a wide range of commercial technology and data contracts including: sales contracts, services contracts, platform as a service contracts, purchase contracts (including for large scale technology procurements), NDAs, research and development agreements and collaboration agreements
• Advise internal clients and liaising with other third parties in the giving of commercial advice and the drafting of commercial documents
• Create new templates, processes and playbooks to support stakeholders with self-sufficiency and wider understanding of legal requirements
• Support the Company Secretarial function including drafting board papers, coordinating, arranging, minuting and attending meetings

You will need

• Be a UK qualified solicitor with around 6 years+ PQE
• Previous experience working in-house in a commercial contracts role ideally within the data, technology or energy sector
• Understanding of data privacy, competition law and supply chain compliance
• Strong organisational skills and technical ability
• Comfortable prioritising and delivering large workloads to time constraints
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Natural team player with exceptional attention to detail
• Willingness to manage your own administration requirements
• Ability to deliver advice and training confidently and clearly
• Ability to partner with the business combining sound legal advice informed by comprehensive understanding of products and strategy
• Previous experience of company secretarial matters and/or data privacy (useful not essential)

What's in it for you

• Hybrid working including a 4 day week!
• Gender neutral "Parenternity" leave for welcoming a child to the world
• Employee Assistance Programme and Mental Health Cover
• Monthly social events organised by our Social Committee
• Open lines of communication throughout the business - your voice matters!
• Regular Employee Forum meetings to gather suggestions from the business on making ElectraLink an even better place to work
• Training and development opportunities
• Exciting, innovative and fast moving company which is growing
• High challenge, high support working environment