Legal Officer
Immingham
£Excellent plus benefits
Are you a Legal Officer, Paralegal or Legal Executive with ideally experience gained within a commercial/contracts setting? Do you want to work for a company that offers excellent career prospects and actively encourages a healthy work/life balance. If so, we have been retained by our client, one of the largest industrial and healthcare gases producers in Europe, to source their new Legal Officer to be based out of Immingham although hybrid working is possible.
The role, reporting to the Legal & Compliance Manager and working closely with the commercial and purchasing teams, offers an excellent opportunity for an experienced paralegal, Legal Executive or similar, to move to an in-house legal department and all the benefits that brings. Alternatively, the role offers excellent career and personal development opportunities for a Legal Officer already working an in-house department. It also offers an excellent salary and benefits package.
The work will involve not only contractual matters but will also cover company secretarial, data protection, competition law and compliance functions. Key responsibilities include the following:
Key Responsibilities
- Working with the Head of Legal & Compliance and the commercial and purchasing teams reviewing and drafting legal documents including contracts and schedules, non-disclosure agreements and change control notices.
- Dealing with legal and contractual queries from the wider business and providing advice on internal legal processes and approvals
- Drafting and reviewing formal correspondence as required
- Helping the legal team to ensure that contracting activities are carried out in accordance with legislation and company policies and procedures.
- Assisting with other legal matters that affect the organisation, for example lease renewals.
- Supporting the legal department by managing efficient legal document filing system, including preparing legal documents for corporate approvals
- Manage and maintain the existing contract databases (customer and supplier)
- Liaising with and advising colleagues on a range of compliance matters including competitor interactions and other competition law issues
- Undertaking legal research to support compliance with changes to relevant legislation and regulations.
Requirements
- An understanding of the processes and legal requirements that sit around company law
- Graduate (ideally LLB) or a paralegal with a good secondary education
- knowledge and understanding of contract law.
- knowledge of commercial property law (desirable)
- Familiarity of company secretarial requirements and activities
- Experience and understanding of data protection principles.
- Some drafting experience particularly in respect of contracts, formal documents/correspondence and contractual terms (essential)
- Experience of reviewing commercial sections of quotations and contract documents
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications and the ability to compose professional written communications.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a team of highly talented people who are passionate about what they do. Along with an excellent salary the company offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes bonus, pension, generous holidays, hybrid working, Private medical insurance, gym membership etc.
If this sounds like you, we encourage you to apply without delay!