JOB DESCRIPTION
When you join Kainos, you get to think beyond limitations to make an immediate and positive impact – like transforming digital services for millions of citizens or helping Fortune 500 companies get live and thrive on Workday.
You’ll be part of a people-first culture that is growing around the world. We’re a creative, committed, and diverse group of individuals who succeed as a team.
At Kainos your ideas are heard and valued and you’ll leave a legacy that you can feel proud of. Join us and discover how our people write our story.
CAPABILITY / JOB FAMILY GROUP: Commercial and Financial Management
JOB FAMILY: Commercial
JOB PROFILE TITLE: Senior Commercial Manager
MANAGEMENT LEVEL: Principal
JOB PROFILE DESCRIPTION MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE BUSINESS:
SENIOR COMMERCIAL MANAGER – SOLICITOR
As a Senior Commercial Manager -Solicitor at Kainos, you will work as part of a leading, commercially focused in-house legal team. Your responsibilities will include:
1. Act as trusted business advisor and partner, building strong trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders, working collaboratively to effectively support business priorities.
2. Providing pragmatic and commercially focused advice, maintaining a broad business acumen focus.
3. Lead strategic meetings with Business stakeholder, ensuring a clear understanding of strategic targets and priorities and support delivery of the revenue targets.
4. Lead on commercialisationand implementation of new offerings.
5. Take ownership for drafting, review and negotiation of strategic and complex contracts.
6. Support Global Head of Commercial on team and workload management.
7. Lead on strategic and non-legal projects with commercial focus or value add aspect.
8. Undertaking risk analysis of proposed commercial ventures.
9. Ensuring pragmatic company compliance with legal developments and new areas of law.
10. Managing and supervising more junior members of the team (as required).
11. Provide upskilling and QA of work of wider Commercial team.
12. Assisting Global Head of Commercial, General Counsel and CFO as required.
MINIMUM (ESSENTIAL) REQUIREMENTS:
13. Qualified Solicitor with significant post qualification experience in a legal/advisory role.
14. Demonstrable experience drafting, reviewing and negotiatinggeneral commercial contracts.
15. We all work in teams here in Kainos – a proven ability of strong team skills, including managing and driving a high performing team.
16. Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability of building strong trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders
17. A forward-thinking professional with the ability to act as a trusted business advisor to add value, manage risk and drive business success.
18. Excellent commercial awareness.
19. Ability to foster good working relationships and deal with a fast moving and constantly changing working environment.
20. Excellent team player with the ability to work independently and proactively.
21. Ability to actively participate in knowledge sharing and training activities, both within the team and at a wider business level.
22. Articulate, analytical, pragmatic, and credible.
23. Excellent time management, organisational and planning skills.
24. We are passionate about developing people – a demonstrated ability in managing, mentoring and coaching members of your team and wider community is important.
DESIRABLE:
25. Familiarity within some or all the following areas of law: IP law, data protection,and procurement law.
26. Previous experience working in a business or in-house environment.
WHO YOU ARE: Our vision is to enable outstanding people to create digital solutions that have a positive impact on people’s lives. Our values are not abstract; they are the behaviours we expect from each other every day and underpin everything that we do. We expect everyone to display our values by being determined in how obstacles are overcome; honest when dealing with others; respectful of how you treat others; creative to find solutions to complex problems and cooperative by sharing information, knowledge, and experience. These values, applied collectively, help to produce an outstanding Kainos person, team and culture.
ABOUT US: At Kainos we use technology to solve real problems for our customers, overcome big challenges for businesses, and make people’s lives easier. We build strong relationships with our customers and go beyond to change the way they work today and the impact they have tomorrow.
So what are you waiting for? Let’s write the next incredible chapter of our story together.
Embracing our differences
At Kainos, we believe in the power of diversity, equity and inclusion. We are committed to building a team that is as diverse as the world we live in, where everyone is valued, respected, and given an equal chance to thrive. We actively seek out talented people from all backgrounds, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or any other characteristic that makes them who they are. We also believe every candidate deserves a level playing field. Our friendly talent acquisition team is here to support you every step of the way, so if you require any accommodations or adjustments, we encourage you to reach out. We understand that everyone's journey is different, and by having a private conversation we can ensure that our recruitment process is tailored to your needs.