Legal & Commercial Adviser – Maternity Cover

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

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🧑‍💼 Attorney / Lawyer

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BESA Group

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1904

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏥 Healthcare

Consulting • Logistics • Healthcare

BESA Group is a UK-based trade association (The Building Engineering Services Association) representing building engineering services professionals and contractors. For more than 120 years it has developed standards, guidance, training and events to promote competence, compliance and best practice across the building engineering services sector, helping members and their customers deliver better buildings. The organisation provides membership services, advocacy, professional development and industry networking to support building engineers, operators and contractors.

📋 Description

• Research and provide practical commercial and legal advice to BESA members • Help members make informed commercial judgments about contracting risks and resolve disputes without formal court proceedings • Represent BESA members’ needs and interests to external stakeholders • Provide commercial advice, guidance, and assistance to other departments and parts of the BESA Group • Attend and deliver presentations at national and regional meetings, including lectures on commercial, legal, or contractual issues • Prepare agendas, minutes, and supporting documents for BESA committees and attend committee meetings • Undertake legal or commercial project work for the BESA Group • Manage multiple tasks and projects with competing internal and member priorities • Assist with responses to external consultations affecting members when required

🎯 Requirements

• Legal professional with a minimum of 1-year post-qualification experience • Experience advising on standard and non-standard construction contracts • Sound knowledge of the UK construction industry • Familiarity with the legislative framework affecting construction contracts • Understanding of commercial contracts • Proficient legal research skills • Professional written and oral communication skills • Proficient IT skills and familiarity with Microsoft Office • Ability to communicate effectively with industry participants such as BESA members • Ability to work well within a small dynamic professional team and across a wider corporate group • Self-motivated and able to multitask and manage competing priorities • Willing and flexible attitude and readiness to take on new challenges • Commercial awareness • Enthusiasm, decision-making, initiative, and ability to originate action • Desire to exceed internal and external stakeholder needs • Desirable: mixed contentious and non-contentious experience • Desirable: awareness and practical ability to manage corporate group issues • Part-time applicants must be available to work a minimum of 21 hours per week across three days

🏖️ Benefits

• Six-month temporary contract providing maternity cover, with possible extension if maternity leave is extended • Full-time or part-time work options • Fully remote work option • Hybrid work option from the Penrith or London office • Full-time hours of 35 per week • Opportunity to work with a professional legal and commercial team • Diverse and inclusive workplace