Lawyer, Group Property Legal, Group Operations & Commercial Legal

End Date
Friday 08 March 2024
Salary Range
£82,539 - £91,710
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Job Description Summary
We currently have an excellent opportunity for an experienced commercial real estate lawyer to join the Group Operations & Commercial Legal team on a permanent basis dealing with the Bank’s occupied estate i.e. it’s branches, offices, data centres and warehouses located in the UK. In addition, the estate includes a small number of properties in the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, India and Europe.
Job Description

• JOB TITLE: Lawyer, Group Property 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 an experienced commercial real estate lawyer to join the Group Operations & Commercial Legal team on a permanent basis dealing with the Bank’s occupied estate i.e. it’s branches, offices, data centres and warehouses located in the UK.
In addition, the estate includes a small number of properties in the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, India and Europe.
The Group Property Legal team sits within Group Operations & Commercial Legal team, in Group Legal, to support the strategic review of the both the branch network and office estate, as well as wider Lloyds Banking Group (“the Group”) strategic projects.
With a focus on the oversight and management of the provision of Property Legal services by external panel law firms. We are a collaborative, encouraging and development-focused team.
The team delivers legal support across the Group working alongside the Asset Management and Future Workplace teams in the People & Place function as well as the Group’s external property advisers. The work is varied, fast paced and will provide outstanding insight into the operations, technology and strategy of the Group!
This is a particularly exciting time to be involved with the Group’s estate, given the significant changes which the Group’s portfolio is going through to meet the changes in the way financial services are delivered. On top of this is the opportunity to be involved and support the Bank’s strive to be net zero by 2030.
What we need from you

• Management and oversight of external panel law firms mainly in the UK, but also in the other jurisdictions that the Group operates in.
• Involvement in strategic projects impacting the Group’s estate including property acquisitions, disposals and the negotiation of commercial leases as well as issues arising from dilapidation claims or contentious property matters.
• Stakeholder management; being a trusted adviser to the Group’s Asset Management team and their external business partners (including asset managers, facilities managers and construction consultants) and working with other legal teams and SME’s within the Group.
• Legal and regulatory horizon scanning.
• Legal risk management.
• Budgetary control and responsibility 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. Due to the UK wide estate, if you are qualified in Scotland, you must also be dual qualified in England & Wales.
• Experience in commercial real estate, particularly a strong and confirmed knowledge of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 and negotiating commercial leases.
• Your experience should have been gained in private practice or an established in-house team.
• Be comfortable working independently and with minimal direction in a small team.
• 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 working in or for a financial services institution.
• Understanding of an outsourced model for legal work.

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.