Legal Counsel

Job Description:

Legal Counsel

Location: London, Leeds, Manchester or Bristol

Working Model: Hybrid Working + Flexible

Type: Permanent

Salary: Competitive Salary (DOE) and fantastic benefits

Hours: Full time – 37.5 hours

Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.

The role holder will provide legal support in relation to the UK Insurance Business Unit, with a focus on Commercial Sales activities, and will take a strong leadership role in managing legal risk across this key segment of the UK Insurance Business Unit activities.

We make health happen

The role holder will be a key part of the Bupa UK Insurance Legal team with responsibility for the provision of strategic commercial and regulatory legal advice to ensure the effective management of legal risk to underpin delivery of the UK Insurance Business Unit strategy and Bupa’s purpose in accordance with our values.

You’ll help us make health happen through:

1. Acting as a business partner by providing expert legal and commercial support to stakeholders in UK Insurance Business Unit to help it achieve its commercial goals aligned with Bupa’s strategy and risk appetite.
2. The provision of advice and support to the Commercial Sales team in drafting and negotiating agreements for the provision by corporate clients of private medical insurance, dental insurance and health trust benefits to their staff, to achieve agreed business outcomes and ensure compliance with applicable law and regulation, including Bupa’s own policies, guidance and procedures.
3. Working closely with stakeholders to deliver effective support and advice as a key team member in RFI, RFP and competitive tender processes.
4. Providing an escalation point for complex technical legal queries ensuring their effective, timely and commercially sound resolution.
5. Dealing with a wide range of “business as usual” requests.
6. Keeping up to date with external best practice and developments in the law and regulation in order to maintain up to date knowledge and ensure continuous improvement.
7. Ensuring that appropriate procedures are in place to provide the business with adequate advance notice of changes in law and regulation and an understanding of the commercial implications of such changes.
8. Developing and maintaining written resources including know-how, procedures, templates and guidance.

Key Skills needed for this role:

1. A qualified lawyer who can demonstrate exceptional commercial awareness, with good knowledge of data protection, information security and IP law.
2. Experience of drafting and negotiating customer-facing agreements, including in relation to the provision of healthcare benefits, and advising on how to manage any associated risks and strengthen relationships with counterparties.
3. An understanding of trust arrangements and the specific legal requirements that apply in relation to these.
4. Strong drafting and negotiating skills with a high attention to detail and bring tenacity, critical thinking and excellent analytical skills to legal problems.
5. Exceptional commercial awareness and can build credibility with business function stakeholders, influence outcomes and provide practical and pragmatic solutions.
6. Experience of making risk-based decisions in a complex operating environment with multiple competing demands. You understand the balance between commercial mechanisms and contractual mechanisms to manage risks and are able to articulate those risks in an appropriate manner.

Benefits:

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• Various other benefits and online discounts

Bupa:

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Time Type: Full time

Job Area: Legal, Risk & Audit

Locations: Angel Court, London, Bupa Place, Dental Vantage Park, Kirkstall Forge, Victory House, Brighton

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