Highly Competitive Salary + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Senior Commercial Counsel – Wolseley Group - Group Corporate Services
We pride ourselves in putting our people and customers at the heart of everything we do and, best of all, provide opportunities to develop skills and build careers through our award-winning Wolseley Talent Guild.
In addition to the competitive salary, there are also benefits on tap – including...
Annual leave (increasing with length of service), car allowance, private medical insurance, a generous pension scheme (matched up to 9%), the potential to earn bonuses, enhanced maternity/adoption leave, and access to a great range of online and high street discounts.
We also promote positive health and wellbeing by offering free access to healthcare, our popular YuLife app, our Cycle to Work scheme and more!
As a Senior Commercial Counsel within our Wolseley Group Corporate Services function, you’ll report to the General Counsel & Group Company Secretary and be responsible for:
Developing a deep understanding of our complex, private-equity backed group
Advising senior stakeholders on commercial contracts, disputes and group projects
Working with a high degree of autonomy to manage a large, varied commercial caseload
Delivering with agility and pace to enable growth, whilst mitigating risk intelligently
Maintaining and utilising knowledge of legal and regulatory developments and trends
Collaborating with law firms, other members of the Legal Team and GCS function to innovate and improve the legal operating model, to protect and create value
Solving complex problems (sometimes legal, sometimes not) with discretion and dignity
Being an ambassador, helping all colleagues live the Group values and do the right thing
A qualified corporate/commercial lawyer with in-house experience (essential)
An excellent communicator, able to build networks and influence leaders confidently
An opportunity to shape legal operations, in a Group with big ambitions