Job Description
Legal Counsel - Customer and Business Development Team
Full-Time
Derby/Hybrid (3 days a week on-site)
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Legal Counsel - Commercial Aviation Contracting to join the team in Derby. This role will support a variety of activities, as required, across the Commercial Aviation Contracting team as part of the General Counsel team.
Reporting to SVP & Head of Legal, Commercial Aviation Contracting, you will provide legal support to Customer and Business Development Team in Civil Aerospace working as part of General Counsel in Civil Aerospace.
What you will be doing:
In this role you will provide contract and commercial legal subject matter support and expertise for Customer Team activities across the Commercial Aviation Contracting team.
1. Legal advice: Deliver timely, cost effective, pro-active and technically correct legal advice in a user friendly and decisive manner.
2. Risk management: At all phases of our transactions, identify and assess potential risks and liabilities proposing and negotiating amendments to manage, minimise or mitigate such risks or liabilities whilst achieving the expected financial returns.
3. Tools development: Assist the team in the development of new precedent documents, fallback positions and playbooks and develop and implement training and knowledge management, deploying best practice and actively sharing knowledge with colleagues in the legal function and wider business.
4. External law firm management: Secure support from and manage interaction, as appropriate, with our external law firms in a cost-efficient manner.
Who we're looking for:
At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles. And for this role, we are looking for someone who is/has:
1. Qualified and practicing lawyer.
2. Technical legal knowledge and significant practical experience of contracting, ideally in Civil Aerospace and/or Customer facing environment.
3. Well-developed interpersonal, communication, influencing and negotiation skills.
4. Ability to solve complex problems working with sound commercial judgement and business acumen.
5. Highly motivated and capable of working under own initiative with ability to prioritise workloads to meet demanding deadlines under pressure.
This role requires significant international travel.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We're committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we'll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential. #J-18808-Ljbffr