Strategic Legal Advisor

POSITION DETAILS:

Position Title:

Strategic Legal Advisor

Reports to (POSITION):

Strategic Legal Manager

Team:

BSS

Department:

Legal

Grade (If Applicable):

N/A

PURPOSE OF JOB:

To work within the Strategic Legal Team to support the Strategic sales team, enabling Bytes to effectively and efficiently negotiate, sign off and manage customer and supplier contracts for strategic customers.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage the end-to-end contracts process for enterprise level customers

• Support in the drafting and negotiation of key supplier contracts

• Liaising with the Strategic Legal Manager and Head of Legal on ad hoc legal issues the business is facing

• Support the wider Legal team with general legal tasks

INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Represent Bytes in negotiation with key customer contracts

• Support and advise the Strategic Legal Manager on ad hoc legal matters

• Support the legal and compliance teams on an ad hoc basis

WIDER TEAM NETWORK

Internal

• Legal / Compliance
• Service Operations
• Non-Strategic Vendor Team
• Services
• Finance
• Sales Operations
• Sales

External

• Customers
• Suppliers

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, & SKILLS: 

Educational Qualifications:

• Law Degree

REQUIRED

Professional Qualifications

• N/A

DESIRABLE

Years of Experience

• 2+  years of experience supporting an IT business in a legal capacity

REQUIRED

Other Requirements

• N/A

CORE Competencies & SKILLS – BASED ON POSITION AND GRADE

• Outstanding communicator – articulate, succinct

• Ability to liaise with staff at all levels, particularly sales people and sales management

• High attention to detail

• Capable of working largely independently, but also works effectively as part of a wider team

• Highly organised and able to plan and manage workload, and deliver excellent results

• Proactive worker, focused and likes to see tasks through to completion

MEASURES & GOALS

OBJECTIVE

MEASURE

FREQUENCY

Effective management of end to end contracts process

 Continual compliance with SLAs as determined in Cases and Customer satisfaction

Ongoing

Proactively and reactive support to wider business in an efficient manner

Issues should not be left unnecessarily.

Ongoing

Capable of working autonomously

Effective working both in the office with team around as well as working from home, supporting the completion of all tasks.

Ongoing