Job Overview

Senior Solicitor Role

We are looking to appoint a senior solicitor to provide legal support in the delivery of commercial legal advice.

Duties would include:

• Provision of a broad range of confident and independent specialist and technical commercial/corporate/company legal advice for BMA client colleagues, to include (not an exhaustive list)
• Contract law, compliance, data protection and privacy, intellectual property, trust and charities law, insurance, tax, pension and financial services, procurement and competition law.
• Provide advice on specialised areas of law eg: defamation, electoral law, ethics, anti-bribery, modern slavery, corporate governance, and complex information technology contracts.
• Provide practical and effective legal advice across all areas of the business, in a commercial manner.
• Provide advice on corporate governance and compliance processes and remain actively aware of the processes so as to improve and develop increasingly robust governance and compliance where opportunities arise.
• Assess and analyse commercial contracts, including high value and high risk.  Engage in contract negotiations from a legal perspective and draft appropriate legal documents.
• Draft and negotiate a range of complex legal documents including template legal documents for use by legal colleagues and BMA client colleagues.
• Working effectively with clients from across the business regarding the delivery of corporate/commercial projects.
• Working effectively with external legal service providers; managing and monitoring spend on individual matters.

Essential skills required for the role:

• Professionally qualified lawyer, with several years’ in-house legal experience in the UK.
• Strong team player with the ability to collaborate on projects with immediate team members as well as BMA client colleagues.
• Effectively communicating legal risk advice and providing constructive and practical commercial solutions that are legally compliant and which assist the delivery of BMA’s commercial and corporate objectives.
• Extensive experience of analysing, negotiating and closing commercial transactions.
• Proven experience of providing appropriate legal risk advice.
• Excellent time management and organisational skills.
• Focussed approach to delivering results by working to tight deadlines.
• A strong commitment to high standards of service delivery and excellent customer care.
• Capacity to be calm under pressure and work flexibly to meet demands and conflicting BMA client colleague requirements.

Why work for us?

As a BMA employee, you`ll receive:

• Generous annual leave provision, plus 1 company day and public holidays
• Double matching pension contributions up to 12% of salary
• Season ticket loan (up to £10,000) after completion of probationary period
• Additional flexible benefits.

You may be working remotely initially, but we`ll provide all the support you need. If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, please apply through our website. For any queries please email recruitment@bma.org.uk

Diversity & Inclusion Monitoring:
We need your support to make sure our staff come from a variety of backgrounds so we especially welcome applications from disadvantaged communities. Even if you`re not selected, it would be really helpful if you could complete the diversity & inclusion data when you apply for this role, because we can make sure we are encouraging a diverse mixture of candidates to apply. Thank you very much.