Senior Legal Counsel

OneAdvanced

Birmingham

GBP 60,000 - 80,000

Job description

Role Introduction:

OneAdvanced is seeking an accomplished Senior Legal Counsel to join our dynamic Commercial Legal Team on a permanent basis. You will play a pivotal role in supporting the business deliver against its growth ambitions across the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the USA, encompassing all its commercial sectors. You will oversee a team of legal professionals and commercial managers, provide strategic legal advice, and manage complex commercial contracts. Your expertise will ensure compliance, mitigate risks, and drive the company's growth while maintaining our commitment to legal and ethical standards.

As a Senior Legal Counsel, you will drive legal excellence, manage complex contractual landscapes, and align legal strategies with OneAdvanced’s broader business objectives. The position offers a unique opportunity to lead in an agile, fast-paced environment and collaborate across functions to deliver impactful legal solutions.

What You Will Do:

Global Leadership in Commercial Legal Matters: Spearhead complex commercial negotiations (public and private sector) and procurement activities, ensuring robust governance across diverse jurisdictions.

Deal Structuring and Closing: Collaborate with Go-to-Market Teams to secure strategic agreements with customers and partners, managing multiple high-value projects under tight deadlines.

Contractual Breadth: Draft, review, and negotiate a comprehensive suite of commercial contracts for a SaaS provider, including MSAs, bespoke terms, RFP terms, supplier agreements, partner agreements, licensing agreements, escrow agreements, call-off contracts, and DPAs.

Privacy and Data Protection: A good grasp of privacy and data protection principles in order to adequately review and negotiate data processing agreements and support the legal commercial team with any privacy and data protection queries, escalating to the Data Protection Office and Senior Privacy Counsel as needed.

Contractual Risk Management: Offer strategic counsel on contractual risks and commercial parameters, maintaining an up-to-date legal risk register to proactively flag issues for executive action.

What You Will Have:

Extensive SaaS Expertise: 5–8+ years of experience managing the full lifecycle of SaaS contracts.

Privacy and Data Protection Knowledge: In-depth understanding of GDPR and other global privacy regulations, with proven experience in negotiating data processing agreements and providing initial privacy and data protection advice.

Qualified Legal Credentials: UK-qualified solicitor with a strong grasp of public procurement law, government framework contracts, and commercial contracts.

Negotiation Skills: Exceptional negotiation and drafting skills with the ability to manage high-stakes agreements.

Team Management: Proven experience leading and managing legal teams.

Legal Operations Experience: Demonstrated ability to partner with legal operations leaders to improve efficiency and adopt innovative legal technologies.

Tech-Savvy: Familiarity with legal tech tools and proficiency in leveraging them to streamline operations.

Commercial Acumen: A proven ability to navigate complex contractual landscapes with a business-focused, value-driven approach.

Strategic Vision: Exceptional capacity to align legal strategies with broader organizational goals and manage multifaceted challenges effectively.

Exceptional Stakeholder Engagement: Strong interpersonal skills to manage and influence key stakeholders across varying levels of the business.

Agility and Resilience: A proactive, adaptable mindset to embrace continuous learning and change within a high-growth environment.

Customer-Centric Focus: A commitment to delivering excellence for internal and external clients, placing their needs at the core of decision-making processes.

Team Leadership and Collaboration: A self-starter with a collaborative ethos, capable of inspiring team members and driving cross-functional synergies in line with OneAdvanced’s “One Team” philosophy.

What We Do For You:

Wellbeing focused: Our people are our greatest assets, and ensuring everyone feels their best self to come to work is integral.

Annual Leave: 25 days of annual leave, plus public holidays and the ability to buy additional days.
Employee Assistance Programme: Free advice, support, and confidential counselling available 24/7 through Care First.
Endometriosis Friendly Employer: We are proud to confirm our commitment to developing an environment and culture that allows those with endometriosis to thrive in the workplace.

Personal Growth: Regardless of where you are at in your career, we’re committed to enabling your growth personally and professionally.

Development Programmes: From Future Managers to Leadership Training, our development programmes help you get where you need to go.
Performance Bonus: Our Group-wide bonus scheme enables you to reap the rewards of your success.

Financial wellbeing: We understand as well as your mental wellbeing, your financial wellbeing is really important.

Pension Scheme: Our plan with Scottish Widows offers 5% matched contribution by the company.
Income protection insurance: Providing you with support and assistance when you need it most.
Discounted Parking: We have partnered with QPark to provide an exclusive discounted rate for OneAdvanced employees when purchasing a digital season ticket.

Recognition: Highlighting and rewarding the great work our people do.

Performance & Talent: Our own technology platform that allows you to get real-time feedback, conversations and goals to help you become your best self.

Making a Difference: We provide opportunities to help our people make a difference to the causes they care about.

MatchIt: Fundraise for a cause close to your heart and Advanced will match part of the funding.
Volunteering Time: Our volunteering leave scheme allows you to use your time to help those who need it.
Pennies from Heaven: Donate the pennies from your paycheck to help make a difference without lifting a finger.

Who We Are:

OneAdvanced is one of the UK's largest providers of business software and services serving 20,000+ global customers with an annual turnover of £330M+. We manage 1.5 million 111 calls per month, support over 2 million Further Education learners across the UK, handle over 10 million wills, and so much more. Our mission is to power the world of work and, as you can see, our software underpins some of the UK's most critical sectors.

We invest in our brilliant people. They are at the heart of our success as we strive to be a diverse, inclusive and engaging place to work that not only powers the world of work, but empowers the growth, ambitions and talent of our people.

To learn more about working at OneAdvanced please click here.