Legal Counsel

Senior Legal Counsel  

Wotton under Edge/Hybrid working (office based a minimum of 3 days a week, 45 minutes from Bristol and Cheltenham)

Salary circa £100,000 depending on experience

Renishaw is a global leader in precision engineering, manufacturing, and technology innovation. With a strong heritage in advanced manufacturing and metrology, we deliver cutting-edge solutions across industries including aerospace, automotive, healthcare, and electronics.

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Legal Counsel at our UK head office to become part of our global legal, compliance and secretarial team (“L&S”). 

Person specification

As part of the L&S team, your focus will be providing pragmatic legal advice and support across a wide variety of corporate and commercial matters, while supporting our core values of Innovation, Inspiration, Integrity and Involvement.

You will have superior interpersonal skills to influence and inform your stakeholders, both within the L&S team and the wider business.

Key responsibilities 

• Support the business by leading on range of specialist corporate legal matters, including corporate M&A and strategic transactions 

• Review, draft, and negotiate high-value, complex commercial contracts with customers, sales intermediaries, suppliers, service providers, and other key business partners

• Support the business with responses to tenders and customer queries

• Support on L&S change and process improvement projects that underpin the business’s key objectives across multiple disciplines

• Support the business with day-to-day legal queries and issues

• Assist in maintaining templates, playbooks, procedures, and other know-how materials

• Provide practical solutions to complex legal problems as a key business partner

• Procure and manage external specialist counsel (as required)

• Support the wider legal team as required, both in the UK and internationally

• Contribute to the growth of the L&S team by sharing knowledge, delivering training, mentoring, supervising or managing more junior colleagues

• Conduct legal research as necessary

Key requirements

• Qualified solicitor with a minimum of 6 years PQE and experience in delivering pragmatic legal advice in a demanding environment

• Highly experienced in advising on corporate M&A matters and various strategic transactions 

• Strong commercial awareness and negotiation skills

• Excellent attention to detail and drafting skills

• Superior analytical skills and a creative, flexible approach to problem solving

• An ability to interact with people at all levels in the business

• Impeccable integrity, a ‘can do’ attitude, and a willingness and ability to lead by example

• An appetite to learn continually and share your experience and knowledge. 

Desirable

Experience in any of the following areas of law:

• Real estate and property

• Construction

• Employment

• An understanding of the challenges of a fast-moving, revenue generating business (ideally in the technology, manufacturing and/or engineering sectors). 

Benefits 

When you join Renishaw, we're committing to your future career. That's because we believe in developing our people's skills and promoting them internally. We also offer a benefits package that's highly desirable; including a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, *subsidised onsite restaurants and *coffee shops, free parking, *car sharing scheme and *24 hour fitness centres. ( not available at all sites).

We also want to promote a healthy work-life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a hybrid working policy which allows for a combination of home and office based working depending on the nature of your role. We also offer a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, Health Cash Plan, the option to join BUPA Renishaw Health Trust and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.

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At Renishaw we believe that our success is powered by welcoming a workforce of diverse and talented people. Through encouraging an inclusive culture, where all our employees are free to be themselves, we can achieve our core values: Innovation, Inspiration, Integrity, and Involvement.
 
If you are excited about the role but feel as though you don’t meet all the requirements, we would encourage you still to apply. You might just be the right person for this role or another opportunity at Renishaw.
 
We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, or require any reasonable adjustments please contact the recruitment team on 01453 490384 or recruitment@renishaw.com.

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