Legal Director

We are seeking a Legal Director to cover a temporary gap in the commercial legal team for our professional services client. This is a hands-on contracting role, combining line-management responsibility with a personal caseload focused on complex commercial contracts and digital contracting, including data, technology delivery, AI, and cloud.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as senior lawyer on complex digital transactions across a broad range of commercial contracts
• Prepare and negotiate services, framework, and licence agreements, and sub-contracts
• Provide contract risk analysis to senior management, escalating higher-risk matters as needed
• Support the wider legal function through best practice guidance and continuous improvement

Skills and Experience Required

Expertise in digital contracting is essential, along with the regulatory considerations relevant to data, technology and AI contracting. Also key is proven experience of managing a small legal team and being able to engage effectively with senior stakeholders and non-legal audiences. A continuous-improvement mindset and familiarity with legal tech, digital transformation and CLM tools is advantageous.

Approx. 3-month contract

Start Date – 1 September

Hybrid (1 day a week in London office)

We celebrate and encourage diversity and inclusion in our company - it’s a vital part of our #humanfirst approach to business. Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles and we set out to ensure that no-one receives less favourable treatment due to their age, belief, caring responsibilities or pregnancy, disability, ethnicity, gender identity, marital status, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic.

We would like you to be able to perform at your best throughout our recruitment process. Please contact us if you require any adjustments to support you.

This is an advert for a job vacancy and may not include every detail of the duties of the role. It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.