Legal Operations Manager (12 Month FTC)

Dept: Legal and Rights

Company description: Our Media is a leading special-interest content business, based in the buzzing, creative city of Bristol. We're home to market-leading brands in craft, cycling, science and nature, homes and music. We help our audiences pursue their passions through highly trusted, original content – in print, video and online. Our much-loved brands include BBC Science Focus, BBC Wildlife Magazine, YourHome, Gathered.how, BikeRadar and Cycling Plus. We also have an award-winning content agency that works with major charities, brands and membership organisations to help them tell their stories and engage audiences better – in print, video, and online.

Position: The Legal Operations Manager role is a key role, acting as the central point of contact for legal and contract-related matters across the business, managing contract workflows, triaging legal queries, coordinating with external legal counsel, and improving legal processes, systems, and guidance.

Requirements:

• Excellent organisational and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience managing multiple matters and priorities across different business teams.
• Comfortable working with external legal advisers and managing spend.
• Commercially minded and practical in approach.
• Experience in legal operations, contracts management, paralegal work, commercial operations, or a similar role.
• Drafting, communication, and negotiation skills for routine contract matters.
• Understanding of contract processes and common commercial terms.
• Experience with contract management tools, document workflows, and legal tech systems.
• Media, content, publishing, advertising, or digital business experience would be beneficial.

Other information: We respect and value differences. We believe that when people from different backgrounds and with different perspectives work together, we can create the most value for our people, readers, customers, and society. If you are excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with everything listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway, as you may still be a good fit for this or other roles. We’re striving to create a more diverse and inclusive environment and to ensure our content is representative of all our audiences. We have established five internal D&I network groups to help our people feel supported and included, and to provide an open environment for people to network, mentor and exchange ideas, solutions, and experiences. If there is anything we can do to make our recruitment process more accessible for you, please do let us know at recruitment@ourmedia.co.uk.

Flexible and hybrid working: We know we create great things and have fun when we come together in person and collaborate. We also know that working from home brings great benefits in terms of being able to focus on our work, and manage our personal lives around our roles. With this in mind, we have established a hybrid working pattern, with 60% of the working week spent in the office. Our people also benefit from a flexi time policy, and a flexi location policy which gives everyone the opportunity to work from another location for two weeks during the year. We are open to discussion about flexible working requests for any flexibility needs not covered by these policies.

Company benefits include:

• Pension contribution matched to 5%
• Season ticket loan
• Hybrid working pattern, flexi start/finish time
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, plus Christmas closure, plus your birthday off
• Option to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday a year
• Social committee, regular in-house learning events
• 4x life assurance

Our values: Always curious, Be the best we can be.

Apply today to take the next step in your career with Our Media!