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Senior Legal Advisor - Corporate/ General

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Legal Advisor - Corporate/ General

Location: Angel Court, London + Other UK Locations with travel to London

Type: Permanent

Hours: 35hrs per week

Salary: Competitive + Excellent Benefits

Here you'll be welcomed. We chion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. You'll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.

We make health happen

Within this role you will be part of the Group legal team accountable for providing legal advice to underpin delivery of Bupa's business strategy and purpose. The Group team:
• Partners other functional teams, enabling achievement of their objectives and accountabilities
• Partners with Bupa's global legal community to deliver the objectives of Bupa's global Legal... function, in support of Bupa's strategic framework
• Maintains the legal risk management framework and governance at enterprise level

You'll help us make health happen through:
• Providing professional, strategic and operational legal advice and assistance to manage and mitigate legal risks;
• Developing and implementing policies and processes, in order to ensure compliance and mitigate legal risks;
• Working with the global functions to ensure a positive legal risk and governance culture is enabled and embedded;
• Working alongside other members of the wider businesses and legal team to assess, evaluate and undertake potential business development activities e.g. strategic partnerships, transactions and complex commercial contracting structures;
• Providing an escalation point for complex technical queries and ensuring their effective and commercially sound resolution;
• Keeping up to date with external best practice and developments in the law in order to maintain up to date knowledge and ensure continuous improvement;
• Supporting the team in building and managing relationships across the global functions to manage legal risk; and
• Supervising, co-ordinating and managing external legal advisors

Key skills needed for this role:
• Qualified Solicitor/ Lawyer with broad company and commercial experience including experience in one or more of corporate, commercial contracting, disputes, brand protection or regulatory experience
• Experience in a high growth environment solving complex, global problems.
• Managed relationships with senior stakeholders, with the ability to syndicate ideas, build consensus and keep stakeholders informed
• Worked in matrix roles with a high degree of cross-functional dependency, particularly interaction on regulatory compliance and reputational risk issues
• Good experience of advising on complex matters and transactions with a strong international dimension to them, for exle, cross border M&A transactions or partnerships
• Experience in effective management of law firms and other external legal suppliers
• Useful, but not necessary experience: intellectual property law and pensions law experience

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.
• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• Various other benefits and online discounts

Bupa

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to "Be you at Bupa", we chion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Time Type:
Full time

Job Area:

Locations:
Angel Court, London

Private dental insurance, Cycle to work scheme, Company pension, Employee mentoring programme, Paid volunteer time, Free flu jabs, Gym membership, Additional leave, Discounted or free food, Private medical insurance, Referral programme, Financial planning services, Health & wellbeing programme

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