- Prepare and negotiate contractual arrangements, including services agreements, outsourcing agreements, software licences, digital marketing agreements, terms and conditions of purchase, variation agreements, termination agreements and renewals, following Capital One's precedents.
- Advise on legal risks in relation to third party contracting, including review of supplier terms where appropriate and escalate to senior legal counsel.
- Be responsible for progressing requests for contractual changes from start to finish, ensuring relevant business processes are followed and involving appropriate stakeholders.
- Enable and assist with contract signing and storage electronically, through Capital One's systems.
- Legal advice and research on Contracts/ IT/ IP/ data protection issues.
- Develop and maintain great working relationships with supplier and sourcing managers, business leads and compliance specialists in Capital One UK and where appropriate within our US parent company.
- Identify and assess the impact of new laws related to contracting and train other business areas where appropriate.
- Manage your workload in a timely and effective manner and proactively communicate to stakeholders on progress.
- Take account of financial services regulation specific to third party contracts, escalating to the legal regulatory specialists where necessary.
- Ensure contracts procedures and policies are followed and risks escalated.
- Genuine focus on delivering a best in class legal service to our business.
- Opportunity to build your knowledge across legal areas.
- Forward thinking on maximising use of digital opportunities as part of providing legal advice and contract drafting.
- Active encouragement to develop, both personally and professionally, internal and external training.
- Access to US/enterprise wide knowledge and interactions.
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment, with flexibility to adapt to our changing business needs.
- A strong commercial mindset.
- Great communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Excellent organisation skills and attention to detail.
- Great team working.
- Legal experience and degree/ Legal Practice Course preferred.
- Experience of working in a role involving commercial contracts may be beneficial
- Bring us all this - and you'll be well rewarded with a role contributing to the roadmap of an organisation committed to transformation
- We offer high performers strong and diverse career progression, investing heavily in developing great people through our Capital One University training programmes (and appropriate external providers)
- Immediate access to our core benefits including pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance – with flexible benefits available including season-ticket loans, cycle to work scheme and enhanced parental leave
- Open-plan workspaces and accessible facilities designed to inspire and support you. Our Nottingham head-office has a fully-serviced gym, subsidised restaurant, mindfulness and music rooms. In London, you can heighten your mood with a run on our rooftop running track or an espresso at the Workshop Coffee café
- REACH – Race Equality and Culture Heritage group focuses on representation, retention and engagement for associates from minority ethnic groups and allies
- OutFront – to provide LGBTQ+ support for all associates
- Mind Your Mind – signposting support and promoting positive mental wellbeing for all
- Women in Tech – promoting an inclusive environment in tech
- EmpowHER - network of female associates and allies focusing on developing future leaders, particularly for female talent in our industry Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace.
Contracts Paralegal - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Capital One
Description
Nottingham Trent House , United Kingdom, Nottingham, NottinghamshireContracts ParalegalAbout the role
Capital One is excited to have a new opportunity within its dynamic Legal team for a paralegal to advise on supplier and other commercial contracts.
To complement our existing Contracts team within Legal, we are looking for a strong team player with great communication skills, contract drafting and negotiating skills and commercial acumen. If you are looking for a new, exciting step in your career this could be for you
Reporting to the senior legal counsel, your role will focus on providing legal advice on contracts between Capital One and third parties. We are looking for someone with enthusiasm who is prepared to bring their voice and ambition to support the team and help our business succeed.
What you'll do
Why join Capital One's Legal team?
What we're looking for
Where and how you'll work
This is a permanent position and can be based in our Nottingham offices.
We have a hybrid working model which gives you flexibility to work from our offices and from home.
We're big on collaboration and connection, so you'll be based in our Nottingham office 3 days a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Many of our associates have flexible working arrangements, and we're open to talking about an arrangement that works for you.
What's in it for you
What you should know about how we recruit
We pride ourselves on hiring the best people, not the same people. Building diverse and inclusive teams is the right thing to do and the smart thing to do. We want to work with top talent: whoever you are, whatever you look like, wherever you come from. We know it's about what you do, not just what you say. That's why we make our recruitment process fair and accessible. And we offer benefits that attract people at all ages and stages.
We also partner with organisations including the Women in Finance and Race At Work Charters, Stonewall and upReach to find people from every walk of life and help them thrive with us. We have a whole host of internal networks and support groups you could be involved in, to name a few:
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