Legal Business Partner - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Seymour John

Seymour John
Seymour John
Verified Company
Birmingham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Legal Business Partner - Hybrid working


The role will partner with the Business Area, maintaining close working relationships with your colleagues to give them the relevant legal advice and support they need or where appropriate work with other specialist legal colleagues to provide this.

To ensureany legal service you provide is of high quality and meets relevant business standards. Part of your role will be to find ways to continuously improve the legal service and enhance efficiency.


Responsibilities

  • Daily you will be required to lead the provision of general legal work and advice which facilitates the delivery of the Business Area's services. You will also signpost to advice on wider governance issues of relevance to the Business Area including thedemocratic process and Information Governance.
  • You will have sufficient expertise in regard to the law relating to the work of the relevant business area to be able to provide clear and authoritative advice, support, critical analysis and challenge to colleagues on a daytoday basis. This will includeworking alongside other Business Partners to the Business Area, particularly Finance, Communications and HR.
  • You will be solutionfocused and be able to consider and develop innovative ways to resolve a diverse range of issues and problems that arise.
  • You will advise on, draft, review, contracts, commercial property documentation, title information, Funding agreements, and other legal documents.
  • It is expected you will remain aware of and up to date on relevant legal developments, understanding and communicating their implications to the business. You will be the first point of contact to provide legal advice and guidance for your business area.

Experience and skills:


  • A good understanding of the overall legal issues that affect the organisation. You will need to be confident dealing with a range of commercial issues including property law, contracts, and agreements (including funding agreements), alternative deliverystructures and innovative approaches to service delivery.
  • Excellent business knowledge, particularly of the units you support not just of what they do but of their plans, their strategy, their interactions with other business departments and with external stakeholders such as suppliers, customers, auditors,regulators.
  • A knowledge of procurement law would be an advantage.
  • Excellent communication skills to be able to present legal advice in a way that ensures relevant business people understand the legal issues that affect their roles and that they are able to act on this understanding.
  • Qualified solicitor or barrister with demonstrable experience.
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