Commercial Contracts Solicitor in Sheffield

About Us

Wrigleys is a well-established, reputable firm of specialist Solicitors. We have offices in Leeds, Sheffield, and Newcastle. We represent clients across the UK and are considered as one of the leading expert practices outside of London. At Wrigleys we pride ourselves on delivering specialist legal services to our clients within a professional yet friendly and authentic environment. Our culture is built on our purpose of putting people at the centre of what we do, and our values guide us in all aspects of our work with clients and each other. Together with our supportive leadership team, we offer a collegiate culture where everyone has a voice, and we encourage collaboration, innovation, and growth. This positive environment helps us maintain exceptional colleague retention levels.

What We Can Offer You?

• Life outside work matters. We promote work‑life balance, offer agile working, and prioritise colleague wellbeing.
• Your health and happiness are important to us.
• Competitive salaries
• Agile Working
• Enhanced Family Friendly Benefits
• Generous holiday entitlement and holiday purchase scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Pension scheme
• Life Assurance scheme
• Group Income Protection
• Employee Wellness Initiatives
• Cash Plan Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 1200 chargeable hours

About the Charities and Social Economy Team

The Charities and Social Economy team at Wrigleys is one of the UK’s leading specialist charity law practices. Highly ranked by Legal 500 and Chambers, the team advises charities, social enterprises and other not‑for‑profit organisations on governance, commercial arrangements, social investment, property, employment and regulatory compliance. Working exclusively with purpose‑driven clients from local community groups to international NGOs, the team combines deep sector expertise with a collaborative, practical approach and a strong reputation for excellence.

About the Role

The role requires a commercial contracts lawyer advising primarily charities and social businesses and enterprises on a wide range of commercial and contractual matters. From time to time the role will also involve advising clients of our private client, property and pensions teams. The role would be well suited to a commercial lawyer currently working with private and/or public sector clients, who is looking to transition their career to working in a more purpose‑driven sector.

Key Competences:

• A good grounding in commercial contracts law and a track record of handling a varied and challenging caseload is essential.
• Experience of drafting, reviewing, reporting on and negotiating general commercial contracts of all shapes, sizes and complexities is essential, including:

• Services support contracts;
• Goods sales and purchases contracts;
• SLAs;
• Standard terms and conditions;
• Memorandum of understanding;
• Collaboration/joint working/partnership agreements;
• Intra-group and resource sharing agreements;
• Consultancy agreements;
• Non‑disclosure/confidentiality agreements.

Knowledge of the following is not essential, but would be advantageous:

• Experience of working with charities and other not‑for‑profit vehicles such as CLGs, CIOs, CICs, co‑operatives and CBSs.
• Commercial or public sector procurement and subsidy control (formerly state aid) experience, and experience of working with the public sector/local government would be advantageous.
• A general awareness of information governance, data protection and intellectual property law is desirable.

This role would suit a solicitor with a minimum of 5 years PQE, but the workload can be tailored to the level of experience dependent on the successful candidate.

Application Process

Our selection process for the Commercial Contracts Solicitor position is transparent. We prioritise keeping all candidates informed at every step, ensuring there is no uncertainty. We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long‑term condition and need us to make adjustments to give you the best possible recruitment process, please do let us know by contacting our recruitment team.

Equality and Diversity

Individual differences are embraced at Wrigleys, and by putting people at the centre of what we do, we strive to create an inclusive working environment in which colleagues feel supported and can be themselves.