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Location: Welwyn Garden City Salary: Hidden Recruiter: PayPoint Date Advertised: 2024-07-01 |
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Reporting to the Head of Legal, Contracts and Commercial Legal Team, PayPoint group and part of an in-house team of 10, this is a role for a qualified solicitor to provide support to the PayPoint group on IT and general commercial contracts.
This role is based in our office in Welwyn Garden City 3 days a week with 2 days from home.
MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE
Take a lead role in engaging with the IT and Procurement teams in order to build strong relationships with those key stakeholders, and therefore provide effective support by: - reviewing, negotiating and drafting a range of IT and commercial contracts; - providing legal advice
We are looking for a person who can run matters independently, drive delivery and has the ability to build relationships, and cooperate with a variety of stakeholders. We have a close-knit team so we are looking for someone with strong team values and who likes to work with their team members.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential:
Desirable:
Exposure to an in-house environment. Exposure to a financial services environment.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:
Most of the role comprises drafting, reviewing, and providing comments on supplier and IT agreements and other manner of agreements depending on requirements within the PayPoint group and dealing with ad hoc contractual issues as and when required.
Being a point of contact for the Legal Team within the key stakeholders including dealing with pipeline meetings. e-mail requests and telephone calls from internal customers, senior management, and lawyers, escalating where necessary. Attending meetings and liaising with client account managers and others internally to establish client “go live” dates and prioritising of workload to ensure deadlines are met. Supporting other members of the Legal team at PayPoint. Assisting in the development of precedents along with related policies and process improvements.
Person Specification:
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