Senior Legal Counsel in Crawley

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What You’ll Do At Elekta

The Senior Legal Counsel is an emerging professional with demonstrated expertise in:

• sophisticated transactional matters, including negotiating and drafting complex commercial contracts;
• general corporate legal and business matters;
• litigation management.

The Senior Legal Counsel is a trusted advisor to various functions and an active participant on local and global projects. This position often will mentor attorneys at the Legal Counsel level.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for advising assigned clients with regard to any and all other legal issues.
• Interacts with senior leadership on key corporate transactions by providing prompt, practical, and commercial oriented advice.
• Handles complex commercial contracting matters, including drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and managing a variety of contracts for various business areas.
• Manages litigation, arbitration, settlement negotiations and outside legal resources.
• Assists with acquisitions, divestitures and restructurings.
• Collaborates, facilitates, and implements legal and risk management strategies to assigned business units.
• Develops and implements best practices, including the proactive development of forms, templates, and training materials to streamline transactional processes.
• Acts as a resource/mentor for other members of the team.
• Performs other related duties as assigned or requested by senior management.
• Develops and provides training to business clients.

What You’ll Bring:

• English law qualified lawyer.
• 6+ years PQE.
• Strong negotiation, oral and written communication, presentation, training, organizational, and teamwork skills.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, as well as the ability to lead with strong organizational, time management, and project management skills, including experience developing creative solutions to transactional problems.
• Strong commercial transactions experience.
• Demonstrated expertise in sophisticated transactional matters, negotiating and drafting complex commercial contracts.
• Experience managing litigation and outside counsel.
• General understanding of laws and regulations relating to patient/data privacy, corporate compliance, anti-corruption and anti-competition.
• Knowledge of the Medical Device Industry, including Regulatory knowledge (FDA, MDR, etc.) is a plus.
• Sound and relatively broad knowledge of general business and commercial, contract, and commercial law.

What you’ll get:

In this role, you will work for a higher purpose; hope for everyone dealing with cancer, and for everyone regardless of where in the world, to have access to the best cancer care. In addition to this, Elekta offers a range of benefits.

Work Pattern: You are required to work from the Crawley HQ 4 days a week with 1-day WFH.

• Up to 25 paid vacation days (plus bank holidays).
• Holiday Purchase Scheme.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Attractive Employer Pension Contribution Package.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Life Assurance.
• Onsite subsidized restaurant, offering budget-friendly dining.
• Love electric (Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme).

Hiring process: We are looking forward to hearing from you! Apply by submitting your application and résumé in English, via the “Apply” button. For questions, please contact the Talent Acquisition Partner responsible, jessica.banfield@elekta.com. We do not accept applications through e-mail.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.