Senior Legal Counsel

We are seeking an experienced Senior Legal Counsel to support the General Counsel and Company Secretary in delivering high-quality legal advice, risk mitigation, and corporate governance across the Group. In this role, you will lead on providing commercial legal advice for complex, high-value capital projects, ensuring regulatory compliance and supporting successful project delivery. You will also manage the in-house legal and governance team, oversee external legal services, and balance resources effectively. The ideal candidate will be a commercially focused legal professional with significant experience in providing strategic legal guidance and handling high profile matters, while mitigating legal and reputational risks.

You will work closely with and support the General Counsel and Company Secretary in the delivery of high quality, strategic legal advice, risk mitigation and guidance on good corporate governance across the Group.

You will be required to effectively lead on and deliver commercial legal advice and risk mitigation solutions to the Group on large, complex and/or high risk capital projects and programmes, to support the successful delivery of its capital projects and to ensure regulatory compliance.

You will also be responsible for the day to day management of the inhouse legal and governance team and the external Legal Services Framework contract, ensuring that appropriate legal advice and representation is provided to the business, all the while balancing resources and financial constraints. The postholder will build excellent working relationships with internal customers ensuring their needs are met. Specifically, they will provide commercially focused legal advice on complex, high profile matters – offering support and expert guidance to the team and colleagues across the organisation.

You will provide guidance on corporate governance matters to protect the Group from legal and reputational risk and promote high standards of accountability, integrity and probity throughout the organisation.