In-House Lawyer (6+ years PQE)

Location - London or Winchester

Hybrid working - 40% (2 days a week in office) required with Thursday as the compulsory team office day (usually Tuesday as the office day). If based from our Winchester office, the expectation is that you will travel to the London office on a Thursday on a weekly basis.

LCP is an award-winning actuarial and analytics consultancy providing market-leading capabilities and advice across pensions and financial services, energy, health, and analytics. We use powerful analytics fused with human expertise to shape a more positive future.

What's the role and who are we looking for?

We have an exciting permanent new opening for a lawyer with extensive experience advising on commercial, technology and software contracts, and data protection to join our well regarded and friendly in-house Legal team. To be successful in this role you will excel in taking a pragmatic and commercial approach, demonstrate excellent contract negotiation skills, and be confident negotiating with procurement teams and large law firms.

This position will particularly suit a self starter who enjoys working both independently and as part of a team, and is looking for a hands-on commercial role that offers a breadth of work and excellent work-life balance.

What will you be doing?

• Leading complex contract negotiations with clients’ procurement teams and external and internal lawyers for the provision of professional and consultancy advice, analytics, software and technology services, pensions administration and other client services
• Advising on client contracts such as engagement terms, master services agreements, client secondments, non-disclosure agreements, reliance, comfort and release letters
• Advising on a wide range of legal, risk and compliance matters affecting the firm, including intellectual property rights, data protection law and artificial intelligence
• Supporting the business in understanding the legal framework and associated risks of new business lines, and modelling and analytics tools, including drafting associated contractual documentation and website terms
• Working closely with the Data Protection and Information Security team, providing advice on privacy, data protection and cybersecurity requirements
• Acting as a trusted adviser to and developing strong internal relationships with partners, client facing teams and internal support teams
• Advising internal support teams and professional committees on legal matters, including supplier contracts, policies and procedures, and new legal developments
• Contributing to the development and maintenance of internal legal policies and procedures, template development and process improvement, identifying and resolving opportunities to create efficiencies and providing training where necessary
• Staying ahead of the latest legal developments and actively sharing knowledge and contributing to the development of more junior lawyers and the wider the team

What qualifications, experience and skills will make you an excellent candidate?

• You must be a qualified solicitor in England &Wales (other suitable jurisdictions, primarily Scotland, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, may be considered) with a minimum of 6 years’ post qualification experience
• Extensive professional experience in general commercial legal matters including contracts, technology and software
• An excellent knowledge of data protection law. Intellectual property knowledge is highly desirable/advantageous
• Recent experience from a reputable law firm and/or as in-house lawyer for a multinational company, preferably in the professional services or technology sector
• Excellent negotiation skills with both legal and commercial issues
• Excellent documentation, presentation, communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence at all levels, including senior management
• A commercial and pragmatic approach
• Ability to work independently and on own initiative on many different matters at once, and as part of a team, in a fast-paced environment
• Flexibility of tasks and hours covered and to travel and work from other LCP offices (travel expenses will be paid where working from alternative offices)

What’s in it for you?

Take a look at our and Career stories pages to see why our people love being here! As well as joining a multi-award winning, fun, collaborative, people first organisation where your personal and professional skills will be developed to make you the best you can be, we offer an attractive benefits package designed to promote your overall wellbeing so that you are able to perform to your full potential both in and out of work. Currently our core benefits package includes:

For you:

• Hybrid working (see top of the advert for details)
• Professional study support (where applicable)
• Access to our internal Wellbeing, LGBTQ+, Multicultural and Women’s networks

For your family:

• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption and shared parental leave

For your health:

• 26 days annual leave (pro-rata for part-time working) plus bank holidays (most of which can be taken flexibly!) with options to buy &sell holiday
• Private medical insurance
• Discounted gym memberships, critical illness and dental insurance through our flexible benefits
• Eye care vouchers
• Cycle to work scheme
• Digital GP services

For your wealth:

• Competitive pension scheme
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• High street discounts
• Season ticket loans

For others:

• Volunteering opportunities

For the environment:

• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme (qualifying period applies)

And much more!

We continuously strive to build an inclusive workplace where all forms of diversity are valued, including age, background, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or sexual orientation.

LCP is committed to making our opportunities accessible to all and would welcome you getting in touch to let us know if an adjustment can be made to help with your application. This may be extra time for assessments, pre-interview site visits, interview structure or questions, or asking us about building accessibility. Whatever it may be, please get in touch via our dedicated email address - to discuss how we can support you with your application.

LCP currently holds a sponsorship license for skilled worker visas, allowing us to assist with applications aligning with the UK Government's criteria for skilled worker sponsorship. If you anticipate needing sponsorship for a skilled worker visa, we recommend reviewing the sponsorship criteria for your desired role before applying to LCP.

Recruitment agencies

LCP operates a Preferred Supplier List (PSL) for recruitment agencies which is reviewed annually. We do not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies who are not part of our current PSL. LCP only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place, and the agency has been instructed by a member of our recruitment team to supply CVs via the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) for a legitimate, open vacancy. If this process is not adhered to, LCP reserve the right to contact these candidates directly and have discussions with them without paying any agency fees. We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to any employee or Partner at LCP.