Legal Counsel NQ – 2 years PQE

Job Title: Legal Counsel NQ – 2 Years PQE

Location: Doncaster, South Yorkshire

Salary: Competitive

Job type: Full time

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The Legal & Regulatory Affairs Department of DB Cargo has a simple mission statement. We are first class business advisors, with high professional standards and positive outlook at all times. We help the business to get things done. Due to a recent expansion of responsibility, we have an exciting opportunity for a Legal Counsel to join the team.

Reporting into the Senior Legal Counsel, this position will be at the forefront of DBC UK’s commercial activity, predominantly providing key legal support to our procurement, sales, and production colleagues. In addition to excellent exposure to a wide range of commercial contracts, the successful applicant will also have plenty of opportunities to gain experience in a number of other disciplines including delivery of major projects, compliance and regulatory work. You will also ensure the business is kept up-date-to with key legal and regulatory developments and regularly contribute to the delivery of training sessions.

For this role we are open to discussing the possibility of reduced working hours (three or four days a week) and we offer significant flexibility in terms of home working.

The Role

General Duties/Key Responsibilities:

• Commercial transactional matters including first point of liaison with procurement, sales, and production departments.
• Assisting Senior Legal Counsel with the delivery of major projects, significant disputes, regulatory work with a particular focus on health and safety, environmental matters and DBC UK’s response to any crisis/serious incident and related follow-on proceedings (and criminal enforcement in particular), compliance, significant disputes.
• Assisting the Senior Legal Counsel in the planning and delivery of regular training and distribution of know-how to DBC UK business to ensure highest levels of legal compliance and awareness are maintained.
• Contribute to the development of Group-wide legal support through the close and effective cooperation with HLC4 and other DB legal departments.
• Cost effective use and management of external counsel for selected matters requiring specialist advice.

Qualifications:

• We are looking for an individual with strong academics, a keen interest in commercial law, and most of all a ‘can-do’ attitude. You will positively contribute to the department’s strong team ethic, have a solution driven mindset, welcome the challenge of a diverse and often complex workload, and be willing to challenge the status quo or speak up if something isn’t right. You will have strong interpersonal skills you can use in both contract negotiations, delivering advice and building relationships with key internal stakeholders.
• Along with the above, you will have strong knowledge of core legal counsel areas (in particular laws of contract and tort) with the ability to be a ‘generalist’ practitioner and tackle a wide range of legal topics.
• You will be admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England & Wales, and have 0 to 2 years post qualification experience with a recognised law firm and/or in-house legal function.
• On offer is a competitive salary, excellent benefits (including generous pension contributions, participation in the company’s discretionary management bonus scheme and competitive annual leave allowance), and significant autonomy to manage working arrangements between home and our Head Office in Doncaster. We are also happy to talk about reduced working hours for the right candidate.

Benefits:

• In return, we are offering a competitive salary (negotiable, dependent on skills and experience) and a competitive benefits package.
• Enjoy discounts with major retailers through DB Cargo’s employee benefits portal, Reward Gateway
• Those eligible for our company car scheme may be entitled to choose from a cash allowance or a range of car options.
• We offer an attractive defined contributions pension scheme, with enhanced employer contributions.

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Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; PQE, Legal counsel NQ, legal assistant, Commercial Lawyer, In House Lawyer, Intellectual Property Law, Data Protection Law, Commercial Solicitor, In House Legal Counsel, Contract Law will also be considered for this role.