Group Legal & Commercial Director
- Employer
- QED Legal
- Location
- England, London
- Salary
- £80000 - £105000 per annum + Additional benefits
- Closing date
- 12 Apr 2019
- Reference
- SC23934A
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- Practice area
- Company and commercial, Information technology and telecoms, Public law
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- PQE
- 5 years, 6 years, 7 years+
- Position
- Head of Legal, Legal counsel, Solicitor
- Sector
- In-house
Job Details
Our client is looking for a Group Legal & Commercial Director to join their busy and growing business. This is a varied and interesting role with a focus on drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts and agreements. Candidates will need to point to a proven track record in negotiating commercial contracts and dealing with procurement for UK public sector organisations.
As the Group Legal & Commercial Director you will be involved in varied and challenging work and play a key role in decisions.
Based in Westminster, London the ideal candidate will:
- Be a UK qualified solicitor with a background in drafting and negotiating commercial contracts ideally with an IT / ICT / technology bias
- Have a strong grounding in procurement & negotiating commercial contracts with UK public sector customers and clients
- Be able to manage the commercial / legal relationships with partners and customers, including dispute resolution, and having regard to commercial risk
- Be an excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills and a commercial / business outlook to their work
You will need to be hungry and ambitious and keen to push your career forward in a vibrant, fast moving in-house legal department.
Our client envisages that candidates with at least 5 years PQE will have the relevant skills / knowledge for this position, however this has been given as an approximate guide for applicants and our client is happy to consider the applications of candidates who fall outside of this PQE range but who have the relevant experience.
For more information on this great in-house opportunity please contact Simon Campbell at QED Legal. If this position isn't for you but you know someone who could be suitable then please let us know. We offer a reward fee for any successful referrals. For full details please see our website.
Company
QED
An acronym of the latin phrase quod erat demonstrandum which translates as "thus it is demonstrated" or "that which was to be demonstrated". It is most often used as an annotation at the end of a complex mathematical, scientific or philosophical argument to show that the author had proven what he had set out to prove. In recent times it has also been translated as "Quite Easily Done".
As a recruiter you have to network and speak to large amounts of people and lots of law firms to really understand the market and have the connections to match people with opportunity quickly when the time arises. A good recruiter needs to be Quick, Excellent and Dynamic in everything that they do. Allow the team at QED to demonstrate what they can do for your firm or your career.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
• Partner moves – both full equity and fixed share equity
• Team moves
• Firm Mergers / Bolt-on’s
• Succession / retirement planning
• In House Counsel
• Patent / Trademark Attorneys
• Other jurisdictions – placing lawyers into and from other countries
• Professional Support Lawyers
• Associate moves – focusing not just on team and culture fit but also client and work quality and room for future advancement.
• Assistant moves – lawyers cannot afford to make mistakes with their career moves. In the crucial early years exposure to the correct mentor and clients is essential.
• Legal professionals – FILEX, MILEX, ILEX, Licenced Conveyancers, paralegals, legal assistants and fee earners
• Support services - practice managers, COLP / COFA – regulatory and compliance, office managers, IT developers, case management specialists, law costs draftsmen and negotiators, legal secretaries, legal cashiers
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