Lawyer, Group Legal, Group Operations & Commercial Legal (12 Month FTC)

End Date

Tuesday 22 October 2024

Salary Range

£84,186 – £93,540

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

JOB TITLE: Lawyer, Group Operations & Commercial Legal (12 Month FTC)

LOCATION: Leeds, Halifax, Edinburgh, Bristol, Cardiff, Chester

HOURS: Full Time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

We currently have an excellent opportunity for a lawyer to join the Group Operations & Commercial Legal team on a 12 month secondment.

A bit about the team:

The Group Operations & Commercial Legal team sits within Group Legal, a divisional team within the Legal & Secretariat function, 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, supportive 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 great insight into the operations, technology and strategy of the Group!

Join a collaborative and welcoming legal 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 are lots of opportunities to get involved with innovative and cutting-edge 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 outsourcing arrangements to ensure we achieve robust terms with the Group’s suppliers and support the legal side of the regulatory notification process.

Job Description

No two days here are the same! The types of work that you will do in this role include:

• negotiating, drafting and advising on a variety of key 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;
• supporting transitional services agreements (in the context of business acquisitions or disposals) and intra-group service arrangements;
• helping the business resolve performance or other contractual issues arising from ongoing supplier arrangements including resolving contentious matters;
• ensuring projects align with regulatory requirements and helping with horizon scanning;
• identifying key legal risks, advising on their implications for the Group and supporting the business by providing clear, pragmatic, solution-focused advice;
• supporting the team’s initiatives to provide training to the Group Sourcing team and Group-wide business partners on relevant legal topics;
• supporting the team’s helpline service for quick and easy access to legal support for ad-hoc queries; and
• being 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 in private practice.
• Strong commercial awareness together with a customer-focused 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 of advising clients from the financial services sector and an awareness of the regulatory requirements for outsourcing in this sector.

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

We’re dedicated to giving you opportunities and support to develop you to optimise your potential. This role provides the opportunity to develop numerous transferable skills including negotiation skills, commerciality and problem solving. It’s the chance to join a brilliant legal team at an exciting time for the Group!

As a new colleague, you’ll join us on our journey to build a 21st century bank that reflects modern Britain, and craft an inclusive culture where all colleagues feel encouraged and valued.

We’re committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve, and to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit. We support the principles of agile working and are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We’re an equal opportunity employer and deeply value diversity within our organisation.

Together we make it possible.

As part of the Group’s commitments as a result of ring-fencing legislation, colleagues based in the Islands are required to be exclusively dedicated to the non-ring-fenced bank and its subsidiaries. This means that colleagues who are based in the Islands would not be able to undertake roles for the Ring Fenced Bank from their existing location and would need to consider relocation when applying for roles.

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.

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