Senior Legal Counsel - Emea

Role: Senior Legal Counsel - EMEA

Location: Office based or Remote in United Kingdom, Spain or Netherlands

Role ID: 2024-2257

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world

Ricardo plc a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company – at the intersection of transport, energy and global climate agendas and a leader in sustainability consultancy, solving complex environmental challenges through industry-leading analysis, advice and data. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

The role will be focused on providing legal contractual support for deals in the EMEA Region across all legal disciplines. Though the role is predominately focused on supporting deals in the EMEA region, you will be called upon to provide support on a variety of aspects covering legal operations and governance.

Many of our projects are complex in nature and you will be required to work with other disciplines to create effective solutions. Having legal expertise in UK and/or EU law is key to this role.

Key responsibilities

You must be curious, passionate, and dedicated senior commercial lawyer with a strong interest in services to: (a) provide support and Legal Counsel to Ricardo’s practice areas; (b) manage and scale our business; and (c) who will be committed to helping Ricardo’s organisation grow. You have to be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, and be an effective and confident negotiator, with strong drafting skills and excellent attention to detail. You must be adept at using business acumen, creativity and collegiality (both internally and in dealing with external parties) to negotiate terms that you can explain and address legal risks in a way that protects and propels your client’s business forward.

Key competencies and experience

* Qualified lawyer entitled to practice in the United Kingdom, Spain or Netherlands (or another European jurisdiction where Ricardo has an office).
* Significant relevant legal experience, (a mixture of law firm and in-house experience is desirable)
* Sound spoken and written English essential.
* Substantial experience drafting and negotiating complex legal agreements, preferably in the services sector.
* Experience supporting a large sales organisation.
* Experience leading and managing projects and multiple priorities, stakeholders and deadlines.
* The ability to both work collaboratively as part of a team and on an individual basis without a lot of guidance or oversight, always with a view towards being of service to clients and other legal team members.
* Exceptional business judgment, relationship-building skills and creativity.
* A keen interest in creative legal problem solving, including researching novel and ambiguous areas of law.
* The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and entrepreneurial environment.
* Strong written and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to match your tone to your audience.

Desirable

* Regulatory, privacy, litigation and/or IP law experience, whether in-house or in private practice.
* Legal transformation experience.
* Experience of and/or curiosity about working with Legal Tech.
* Language skills (proficiency in another European language other than English is desirable)

Working with Ricardo

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment.

Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

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