Join us as a Legal Counsel
- This is an excellent opportunity to join us as a Legal Counsel, where you’ll deliver our legal strategy as part of a dynamic, innovative legal team
- Your role will sit within Outsourcing, Technology and Intellectual Property, so we’ll need you to have an understanding of associated legal issues
- This role offers the advantage of a varied and extensive breadth of work, where you’ll find solutions to challenges on a wide range of matters
- In this hybrid role, you'll spend a minimum of two days every week working from our Edinburgh office
What you'll do
We’re looking for a Legal Counsel with outsourcing and technology law experience. You’ll work closely with stakeholders and legal colleagues to ensure the timely, effective and efficient delivery of all issues, projects and initiatives.
Additionally, you’ll be:
- Making sure that legal advice is readily understandable to non-lawyers and delivered within relevant timescales while you manage and minimise legal risks
- Managing, influencing and advising senior stakeholders on transactions and initiatives across the Bank
- Leveraging AI tools, design thinking techniques and demonstrating a curious mindset to provide legal services in an innovative and customer-centric way
The skills you'll need
To join us in this role, you’ll need to be a qualified solicitor with experience of providing legal and commercial advice in relation to technology, transactions and projects either as part of an in-house team or at a leading law firm. You’ll be able to draw on your experience of working with law firms and other professional advisers and have knowledge of current legal issues facing banks and our business area.
You’ll also demonstrate:
- Strong legal skills and in particular, expertise in outsourcing, ideally in the financial services industry
- An understanding of the key legal risks of emerging technologies
- The ability to build rapport and establish strong relationships with colleagues up to senior executive level as well as external professional contacts
- An innovative mindset, with an interest in delivering legal services in an agile, future-focused way
- The ability to keep up to date with and share relevant legal and market developments
- Good communication skills and the ability to establish and maintain strong relationships within your business area and across the bank
Hours
35
Job Posting Closing Date:
Job Posting Closing Date is not yet published.
Ways of Working:Hybrid
Legal Counsel in Edinburgh employer: NatWest Group
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