Paralegal in Milton Keynes

SALARY: From £29,854.00 pa dependent on experience

LOCATION: Milton Keynes

HYBRID WORKING: Our current hybrid working policy requires a minimum of 60% of working time to be based in the Milton Keynes office however flexibility is expected to meet the needs of the business and the role.

HOURS / CONTRACT TYPE: Full time fixed‑term until 29th October 2027

CLOSING DATE: 26/06/2026 (We reserve the right to close the advert earlier if we receive a high volume of applications.)

An exciting opportunity to join us as a Paralegal to assist and support our Commercial Lawyers working with our commercial business areas and wider Legal team. You may have just finished your law degree or be a practising Paralegal and be looking to build your career. This key administrative role in the team will be instrumental in supporting the Commercial Lawyers and our business with legal queries and providing guidance on legal procedures and processes. You'll be able to work with and learn from our highly capable team.

What you’ll be doing:

• Take ownership of day-to-day legal queries, ensuring instructions are complete, accurate, and delivered within agreed service levels.
• Be a trusted advisor to the business, providing clear guidance on legal processes and best practice.
• Deliver concise, commercially focused, risk-based legal advice with confidence and professionalism.
• Draft, review and negotiate a range of low-risk agreements (including NDAs and funding documents), ensuring they are fit for purpose and legally robust.
• Lead the end-to-end document execution process—from quality checks to signing and secure storage—ensuring everything is accurate and enforceable.
• Champion quality by meticulously reviewing legal documents and maintaining high standards across all outputs.
• Act honestly and with integrity, in accordance with the law and with regulatory requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement by enhancing templates, processes and ways of working within Legal.
• Build strong relationships across the business and with external counsel to proactively manage legal risk.
• Empower teams by delivering engaging training on legal processes and practical guidance.
• Support the smooth running of the Legal function through effective coordination and administrative excellence, including invoice management.
• Prioritise and manage a varied workload with pace, accuracy and attention to detail.
• Stay ahead of legal developments, maintaining up-to-date knowledge and continuously building expertise.
• Collaborate with wider Volkswagen Group legal teams and ensure full compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements.

What you’ll bring:

• You will have a legal qualification (LLB or the GDL), UK Law degree or equivalent experience as a paralegal or legal administrator either in-house or in private practice.
• You’ll have knowledge of the practical application of UK commercial law in a business and, balancing a diverse workload to tight deadlines and regulatory obligations.

Essential Experience & Skills:

• You’re passionate about delivering exceptional service and creating a seamless experience for the business.
• Proactive, resilient and committed, and you have the drive to see tasks through to completion.
• You thrive in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment, with the ability to learn quickly and adapt.
• Experience of researching and collation of complex written information.
• Highly organised with strong administrative skills and confidence using Microsoft Office tools.
• Positive, enthusiastic and solution-focused, with the initiative to take ownership.
• Excellent attention to detail, with a structured and methodical approach to work.
• Strong communicator with the ability to present information clearly and professionally.
• Flexible and calm under pressure, adapting easily to change and new ways of working.
• Approachable and responsive, providing a high-quality service to internal and external stakeholders.
• Trusted to handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion.

What’s in it for you?

• Bonus: Discretionary 10 % on‑target bonus (based on personal and Group company performance)
• Pension: Employer pension contribution of 9 % (based on employee contribution of 3%). VWFS will pay 6 % if employee chooses a 2 % employee contribution.
• Car schemes: Choice of Employee Car Ownership (ECO) scheme for petrol/diesel and hybrid vehicles plus car insurance, or Company Car scheme for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) plus car insurance cover for you and a partner/eligible family member.
• Other benefits: From day 1 we provide income protection, life assurance (4× salary), retail discount vouchers, access to Care Concierge (a service to support carers of adults), along with other salary sacrifice options including a will writing service and cycle to work (subject to scheme restrictions).
• After successful completion of probation, you will have access to private medical insurance for you (with the option to buy additional family cover), access to our loan car scheme for up to 2 cars for your partner or eligible family members (subject to scheme restrictions) and during our annual benefit window you can purchase critical illness cover and dental cover.
• We invest in our people and are passionate about driving development. You’ll have access to LinkedIn Learning via our Degreed platform as well as a host of professional development programmes and opportunities to build your technical and soft skills so you can further develop your career.
• We also offer mentoring schemes and reciprocal partnerships recognising that we can all learn from each other in the flow of work.

Why join VWFS UK?

You’ll have the opportunity to make a difference by helping us to achieve our mission. Our mission is straight forward; we want to be 'The Key to Mobility'. That means we make getting from A-to-B as easy and simple for as many people as possible. To truly meet the mobility needs of people in a changing world, our offering goes beyond traditional vehicle financing. We do this by providing a range of finance and aftersales products on Volkswagen Group vehicles, as well as developing innovative mobility products designed to solve real problems and support our customers.

VWFS is proud to be an inclusive employer and encourages applications from a diverse range of candidates. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion isn’t just a statement for us, we encourage and aspire for all our colleagues to be their 100 % self. If you need any reasonable adjustments to assist you with the application and/or recruitment processes, please contact our Resourcing Team.

This role does not meet the UKVI’s criteria for the skilled worker sponsorship route, therefore we are unable to accept candidates requiring sponsorship for this role.