Job Description

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rafting a wide variety of simple contracts (using established templates where available) across the Costain business, including supply/goods agreements, construction contracts, general commercial contracts, consultancy contracts, NDAs, variations, settlement agreements, heads of terms, collaboration agreements, software licences and services agreements.

Negotiating with clients and suppliers to develop and agree contracts

Working with the wider legal team and the business to ensure procedures and processes are in place to ensure compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.

Supporting the business to identify risk and to identify the best means of managing/ mitigating such risk.

Supporting the team's ambition

to be


high-performing


, including identifying and implementing new technologies and processes to improve efficiency.


Supporting the wider team on an ad hoc basis on ethics/fraud investigations, company secretarial matters and aspects of data protection compliance. E

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P roactive self-starter who is highly organised and able to handle many ongoing and changing priorities without impact on outputs
Commercially aware with a strong business acumen and a desire to support business objectives
Ability to present key messages/complex matters in a clear, concise and engaging manner. Strong communication (written and verbal) skills
Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite


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ble to demonstrate behaviours of a high performing team:

Acting as Owners - feeling and acting empowered to drive our work forward and make the best decisions for our future

Using Curiosity to grow our business - being excited, connected and integral to growing and developing what we offer and how we deliver it.

Having an Ambition for Costain - delivering your part in ensuring Costain is a success and realises its potential to become a leader across our fields of expertise.

Using Inclusion to encourage collaboration - working together to deliver our work as a close-knit community that is built on trust, equity and positive approaches.

Bringing Clarity and focus to what we do - challenging ourselves to remain clear and focused to ensure we land our work in the most effective, consistent ways possible

Can work independently as well as part of a team


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esirable

Prior experience in an in-house legal team (or on secondment) / private practice
Some experience of handling data protection matters
Strong technical skills in contract drafting & negotiation
Transactional contract experience C
ostain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.


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ostain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.


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e do share individual feedback following an interview .


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Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
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t is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.


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or more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
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