Lawyer, Group Legal, Group Operations & Commercial Legal

End Date
Friday 08 March 2024
Salary Range
£82,539 - £91,710
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Hybrid Working, Job Share, Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion
Job Description Summary
We currently have an excellent opportunity for a lawyer to join the Group Operations & Commercial Legal team on a permanent basis.
Job Description

• JOB TITLE:Lawyer, Group Legal, Group Operations & Commercial Legal
• LOCATION:Edinburgh, Chester, Cardiff/Newport, Halifax, Leeds, or Bristol
• HOURS:Full Time
• WORKING PATTERN:This role involves spending up to 2 days a week, or 40% of your time at one of our offices.

We currently have an excellent opportunity for a lawyer to join the Group Operations & Commercial Legal team.
The Group Operations & Commercial Legal team sits within Group Legal to support large scale and complex commercial contracts. Our purpose is to deliver strategic legal advice which is central to the operations of the Group. We’re a collaborative, encouraging and development-focused team.
The team delivers legal support across the organisation working alongside the Group Chief Operating Office, Group Property and the Payments teams as well as customer facing business areas. The work is varied, fast paced and will provide phenomenal insight into the operations, technology and strategy of the Group!
Join a collaborative and welcoming team with members based in all of the key Legal & Secretariat hubs. Together we help the business to implement some of the Group’s most strategic and varied projects. There’s lots of opportunities to get involved with innovative and ground breaking work such as FinTech deals to grow our digital capability, supporting cyber security initiatives to keep customers safe and change projects to help the organisation meet its net zero targets. We lead on legal advice relating to material sourcing arrangements to ensure we achieve robust terms with the Group’s suppliers and support the legal side of the regulatory notification process.
What we need from you

• Negotiate, draft and advise on a variety of Group-wide supplier contracts for both IT (including SaaS and Cloud arrangements) and other operational services, such as business process outsources or consultancy services, working closely with the business, platform and Group Sourcing teams;
• Support transitional services agreements (in the context of business acquisitions or disposals) and intra-group service arrangements;
• Help the business resolve performance or other contractual issues arising from ongoing supplier arrangements including resolving contentious matters;
• Ensure projects align with regulatory requirements and help with horizon scanning;
• Identify key legal risks, advising on their implications for the Group and supporting the business by providing clear, pragmatic, solution-focused advice;
• Support the team’s initiatives to provide training to the Group Sourcing team and group wide business partners on relevant legal topics;
• Join the team’s helpline service for quick and easy access to legal support for ad hoc queries; and
• Be responsible for the effective selection and management of external legal counsel.

Is this role for you?
Essential:

• Applicants must be a fully qualified lawyer with a current practising certificate for a UK jurisdiction or equivalent legal qualification.
• Experience of negotiating commercial contracts, outsourcing arrangements and technology agreements gained either in an established in-house legal team or a leading private practice firm.
• Strong commercial awareness together with a customer-focussed approach.
• Excellent influencing and communication skills together with a pro-active approach as you’ll be required to interact with executives, deliver messages in a cohesive and simple way and build your internal network with senior leaders.

Desirable:

• Experience advising clients from the financial services sector and an awareness of the regulatory requirements for outsourcing in this sector.

About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey!
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.