Job Description

Connect to your Industry

Our purpose globally is to make an impact that matters for our clients, our people and society. Our people are at the heart of what we do, and so we are focused on building a firm where everyone can thrive and do their best work, one that is truly inclusive and reflective of society and has our shared values at its core. In Deloitte UK, we have an opportunity to ensure that our people experience ambition, together with our purpose and shared values are truly activated locally and embedded into the core of our business.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It\'s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

The Commercial legal team in Deloitte\'s UK General Counsel office is responsible for supporting and advising the firm in relation to a wide range of legal and commercial matters.

We are looking for a talented and experienced Commercial lawyer with significant in-house experience to provide support for a Maternity leave and during a particularly busy period. The role offers the candidate a hugely varied and interesting workload, the opportunity to be part of a high performing team and people leader responsibility for one direct report.

The Commercial work is predominantly non-contentious and hugely varied, including leading on:

• Large scale procurement contracts and associated queries for a range of goods and services
• Complex technology contracts including hardware, SaaS and associated licensing arrangements
• Managed services and outsourcing contracts
• Sponsorship, CSR, publishing and collaborations, contracts and initiatives
• IP matters: Trademark and brand protection
• Member firm arrangements with other Deloitte firms across the network
• Regulatory matters relating to commercial matters

Connect to your skills and professional experience

You\'re a natural at collaborating for impact. Someone who understands how our business works, and can collaborate across the business with people and teams at all levels. We\'re all about letting our leaders lead, so we\'ll give you the breathing space you need to do so. We\'re also keen to let your creative strengths shine, and to make your own distinctive impact.

The candidate will have strong IQ and EQ and a proven ability to business partner across a broad range of stakeholders and provide proactive, commercial, practical advice to both protect and enable the firm. In particular:

• Experienced and confident Commercial lawyer able to work on a wide variety of matters
• UK Qualified Lawyer with a minimum of 10 years PQE
• In-house experience (some Professional Services or equivalent large complex organisational experience)
• Proactive, self-motivated and reliable
• Organised with ability to manage own workloads
• Able to balance a varied workload and multiple stakeholders
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail
• Team player with excellent drafting, negotiation and communication skills and ability to influence
• Strong interpersonal skills, with a strong ability to build connections
• Highly collaborative
• Mature and discreet, with proven ability to handle sensitive information and situations
• Demonstrate alignment with and behaviour consistent with our Shared Values
• Flexible approach, \xe2\x80\x9ccan do\xe2\x80\x9d attitude, and ability to learn new areas quickly

Connect to your business - Enabling Functions

Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. Bringing your individual skills and experience, and sharing your specialist knowledge, is how you\'ll make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.

Connect with your colleagues

"Deloitte\'s a large, complex and fast-paced organisation but it\'s open to new ideas. Everyone is encouraged to show initiative and challenge the norm.\xe2\x80\x9d

-Lisa, Enabling Functions

Connect to your agile working options

Location: The home office of this role is London.

Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You\'ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.

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Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it\'s why we\'re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we\'re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we\'ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it\'s only when you\'re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we\'ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it\'s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you\'ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you\'ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you\'ll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you\'ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You\'ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you\'ll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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