Legal Counsel

Job description

Come join our growing legal team supporting the Kier Construction business units within the group. An exciting opportunity to join a company with an unbeatable order book and a real mandate for growth. We’re looking for a self-starter comfortable working with relative autonomy who has an ability to develop strong professional relationships across different levels of seniority and a desire for continuous improvement.

As in-house legal counsel your primary responsibilities would include:

• Collaboratively working with others in the commercial function to identify and manage legal risk and mitigation strategies
• Drive and deliver initiatives to enable the business to self-serve where appropriate including involvement and delivering toolkits and legal awareness training
• Assisting in developing and maintaining legal precedents
• Providing day to day legal input to commercial/business/operational issues for our regional building business units
• Procuring and managing external legal support driving efficiency and value
• Working with the commercial and operational teams to deliver business performance in line with the overall strategy.
• Mix of contentious and non-contentious work
• Contentious – input and strategic guidance on issues in a pre-dispute setting and ensuring efficient and effective handling of disputes through formal dispute resolution processes
• Non-Contentious – review of tenders for key frameworks critical to our business and project advisory work
• Working with other Group functions (corporate compliance, insurance, health and safety, procurement, tax etc.) to facilitate efficient operations and support compliance with relevant legislation and regulations affecting the business.