Senior Manager, Legal Counsel - Asset Management

Sponsorship isn't being offered with this position, please only apply if you have the right to work in the UK.

We’re looking for a Senior Manager, Asset Management to join us in our team. As a member of our agile working team, you will be responsible for supporting our client’s business by reviewing, drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts, as part of a wider general support service to the client’s contracts management and in-house legal teams. You will act as a senior point of contact within the team and will be relied upon to tackle the complex contracting work we undertake for our client.

If you believe in being a team player, can collaborate and communicate well with technical and non-technical audiences, while bringing a result-driven, focused, high energy, confident, curious, and most of all fun sense of self, then this is the place for you.

Responsibilities

• Being part of a team committed to overall delivery of legal services and compliance with all delivery commitments to the client, including reviewing, drafting and negotiating a wide range of IT focused commercial contracts across a Global remit. This may include Master Services Agreements, Amendment Agreements, Local Country Agreements, SAAS Agreements, Supply Agreements, Reseller Agreements, Contract Interpretation and advisory support, Dispute handling, professional and consulting services contracts, licensing contracts, other IP/IT contracts and general commercial contracts;
• Adhering to and developing delivery processes and commitments;
• Inputting and managing data on client systems and keeping them up to date;
• Helping develop contract templates, playbooks and other tools for use by the team;
• Helping develop more junior team members through mentoring, training, quality checking of work output and acting as a point of contact for legal queries;
• Remaining up to date on legal and other relevant developments within the industry.

Essential Criteria

• You are adaptable, authentic, accountable, and values driven.
• You’re a team player who exhibits personal leadership and leaves things better than you found them.
• We’re looking for someone who always gives their best and inspires others to do the same.
• This role requires the legal knowledge to take instructions from our clients, take appropriate action and serve as an escalation point on issues for more junior team members.
• Outsourcing / Consulting legal experience is essential.
• Experience working in the asset management/private equity space, with experience of working on real estate transactions.
• Law Degree and Qualified lawyer in the UK.
• Legally eligible to work in the country this role is based.
• Ability to handle a consistent and varied workload to meet client deadlines.
• Frequent client-facing experience in a legal context.
• Strong commercial awareness, working directly with business managers and other functions across an organisation.
• Extensive legal knowledge in order to act as a senior advisor to the client and serve as an escalation point on issues for more junior team members.

Desirable Criteria

• Ability to review data sets to assist with managing team capacity and identify insights and trends.
• Ability to manage workflow – efficiently allocating work within a team.
• Passion for driving efficiencies through better management of process, playbooks, templates and use of technology, including through the integration of AI.