Great that you're thinking about a career with BSI Job Title: Paralegal Location : Chiswick or Milton Keynes, UK – hybrid Type: Full time, permanent About The Role BSI is seeking a Paralegal to join our Legal Department in a hybrid role, based out of either Chiswick or Milton Keynes. Reporting to the Legal Director, this role provides vital contract support and legal services, helping to ensure efficient legal operations across the business. The ideal candidate will have strong contract negotiation, legal research, and administrative skills, with excellent attention to detail, organisation, and communication abilities. This is a great opportunity for a proactive and adaptable individual to develop within a global leader in standards and compliance. Responsibilities Support contract negotiations by preparing templates, processing drafts, and ensuring compliance with BSI policies. Monitor legal projects, track deadlines, and liaise with internal stakeholders and external counsel. Conduct legal research and report on relevant legislative updates to the legal team and wider business. Assist with company secretarial duties, including Annual General Meeting (AGM) arrangements and subsidiary company management. Support policy enforcement and compliance initiatives, ensuring alignment with BSI’s governance framework. Maintain legal document management systems, oversee invoice processing, and contribute to process improvements. Assist with training materials and internal training sessions to enhance legal awareness across the business. To Be Successful In The Role, You Will Have Bachelor’s degree or other relevant legal qualification. Previous experience in a paralegal, contract management, or legal support role. Excellent research, analytical, and problem-solving skills. Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple tasks. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Intellectual curiosity and openness to continuous self-improvement and professional development when opportunities arise. Experience using Power BI would be advantageous. BSI offers a competitive total reward package, an independent and varied job in an international environment, flexible working hours, and ongoing training and development. Please note: BSI are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this vacancy Do you believe the world deserves excellence? We are proud to be the business improvement company for other organisations to become more sustainable and resilient and finally to inspire trust in their products, systems, services, and the world we live in. Headquartered in London, BSI is the world's first national standards organization with more than 100 years of experience. We are a global partner for 86,000 companies and organizations in over 193 countries, offering development, auditing, certification, and training services, including innovative software solutions and cyber security expertise for all industries: from aerospace and automotive to food, construction, energy, healthcare, IT and trade sectors. Incorporated by Royal Charter, we’re truly impartial, and home to the ultimate mark of trust, the Kitemark. Through our unique combination of consulting, training, assurance and regulatory services we bring solid and broad knowledge to every company. If you want to contribute to this inspiring challenge, bring your open and enthusiastic mindset to our dynamic team, apply now and become part of the BSI family D&I Policy BSI is committed to ensuring the diversity of our workforce reflects that of our clients and the communities in which we operate. Our goal is to create a sense of belonging for all employees by providing opportunities to develop, grow, and engage with our global organization all while having fun doing great work. BSI is a community where everyone can thrive. If you require any reasonable accommodations to be made on account of a disability or impairment throughout out our recruiting process, please inform your Talent Acquisition Partner. Our Excellence Behaviours: Client-centric, Agile, Collaborative. These three behaviours represent how we do things at BSI. They help us ensure that BSI is a great place to work and a highly successful business. BSI is conducting face-to-face interviews where appropriate and possible. If you are invited to a face-to-face interview but feel more comfortable with conducting the interview virtually, please speak to a member of our recruitment team.