Legal Director

Location: This role is offered on a hybrid basis, which involves a combination of working from our London (Kings Cross) office and also remotely. We will give consideration to four day working patterns.

We are seeking an experienced interim Legal Director, to join us on an 18-month fixed term contract. All members of the team contribute to handling the day-to-day contract requests and queries from the business. However, where a key project is running within the group, this role will be primarily focused on assisting with that project, including a current, large integration project. This will be a very varied role requiring the successful candidates to both drive forward actions within our remit and influencing and supporting the relevant stakeholders.

What You Will Be Doing:

1. Driving projects forward and bringing workstreams to a conclusion.
2. Building relationships with and influencing business stakeholders to ensure legal compliance and adherence to the Group’s policies and structures.
3. Working collaboratively with business colleagues on multinational, multifunctional projects.
4. Continuing to implement and champion the Group’s contracting policy within acquired businesses.
5. Providing pragmatic advice that balances appropriate risk with commercial desires.
6. Providing day-to-day legal support across various areas, including commercial agreements, data protection, and general legal queries.

About You:

1. Qualified solicitor, ideally in England and Wales, with post-qualification experience in commercial contracts and legal matters.
2. Experience working on large, cross-functional projects is essential.
3. Strong ability to build relationships with and influence a variety of stakeholders.
4. Significant post-qualification experience across a range of commercial contracts and legal issues in an in-house environment. Experience working across borders and cultures would also be a key skill.
5. Experience of a corporate reorganisation and/or some corporate law knowledge would be an advantage, as would experience of outsourcing (or similar larger-scale project).
6. Enjoy working pro-actively to drive things forward, whilst keeping senior management up to date and informed.
7. Enjoy making the complex simple, with an excellent legal judgement and business mindset.

The extras you’ll get:

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you’d expect from a FTSE listed company, including an annual performance bonus, private healthcare, and generous holiday, in the UK, we’ve just introduced several new Family Friendly Policies including:

• Help for people to take control of ongoing health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation.
• Support for neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post-diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette’s syndrome.
• Support for women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause.
• Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery and gender confirmation surgery.

We are RS Group:

RS is a global solutions partner for industrial customers and suppliers. Our business has operations in three geographical regions – the Americas, EMEA and APAC, supported by global organisations for supply chain, corporate functions, marketing, and product & supplier management.

Our market today is large, fragmented, local in nature and digitally immature. Only a few international distributors serve it, with many regional and local providers, who largely trade offline. We stock over 2,500 supplier brands, 500k products and 61% of our sales are digital.

We are committed to Making Amazing Happen for a better world and our Vision is to become first choice for customer, suppliers, our people, and communities.

RS is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people thrive. We recognise that a diverse and representative workforce is critical to our success, and our aim is to create a business where people can be their true selves. Our employees expect this as a matter of course and it is fundamental to how we attract, develop, and retain the best talent.

In line with our D&I policy, we recruit and develop employees who are the best suited to the requirements of the job role, regardless of gender, ethnic origin, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.

Are you ready to explore the possibilities?