Legal Counsel

Department: Legal & Compliance

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Cardiff, UK

Reporting To: Director of Legal and Compliance

Helping create a safer and more sustainable world.

Alcumus helps organisations of all sizes anticipate, manage and avoid risks that endanger their people, their operations and our planet. We provide an integrated approach to managing Health, Safety and ESG across industries, locations, contractor and supplier networks.

The Legal Counsel will provide reliable, accurate and commercially focused legal advice to the Alcumus Group of companies. The Group Solicitor will support the Director of Legal and Compliance to ensure that a first-class, solutions-orientated legal service is provided to support all business units.

• Advise the Group on legal matters, particularly on commercial contracts.
• Engage with the business units and group support functions to build credibility and trust, whilst supporting them in addressing legal implications and compliance issues.
• Negotiate and draft a wide range of commercial contracts and NDAs.
• Support with Company Secretarial matters including managing the group structure, statutory filing, and investor and board support.
• Support the Director of Legal and Compliance with ensuring GDPR / Privacy law compliance ad-hoc projects.
• Assist with managing the Group's IP, domains, and trademark registrations and address any related contentious issues as they arise.
• Support the Director of Legal and Compliance in resolving legal issues that occasionally confront the business.
• General legal research and legal administrative duties as required.

Essential

• Mitigate legal risk across the Group.
• Strong commercial acumen and the ability to challenge management on legal/commercial risk positions. Able to resolve legal issues using a pragmatic and commercially sound approach.
• Work with others in a collaborative and solution-focused manner to achieve positive outcomes, demonstrating effective communication skills.
• Ability to work to deadlines and adapt to changing conditions.
• Attention to detail and subject matter expert.

Desirable

• Draft contracts that contain appropriate and proportional protections for the Group businesses.
• Consider the commercial implications of a decision, looking at the bigger picture.
• Ability to influence and build strong relationships across the Group.
• Prioritise workload and deal with high volumes of work.
• Strong working knowledge of commercial law issues and the ability to apply these using a pragmatic and common-sense approach.

Alcumus has a hybrid workplace policy, where you will work from the office 3 days per week. We want you to be able to do your best work here. We emphasize providing many ways to support our team to do their best work and below are some of the perks and benefits we offer:

Personal Health & Wellbeing / Benefits
Enhanced Parental Leave
Generous annual leave
Healthcare Plan
Annual Giving Day - an extra day to give back to yourself or your community
Cycle-to-work Scheme

Future Planning
Pension scheme with employer contributions
Life Assurance - 3X base salary
Rewards Program - access to discounts and cashback
LinkedIn Learning License for upskilling & development

Interested but don't feel you meet all the requirements?

Our recruitment team assesses and reviews all applications against the role and business needs. We believe in people having transferable and soft skills and want you to know that we do consider where an individual might not meet all the criteria, but have the aptitude and capability, nonetheless. Our priority is to ensure we set people up for success. We will make a final call based on our determining whether we can offer the necessary support to upskill or provide the developmental support needed for you to get the best out of this opportunity with us!

Bring Your Whole Self to Work.

Alcumus is proudly an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to ensuring that no candidate is discriminated against because of gender identity and expression, race, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, colour, region, creed, national origin, or sex. We are dedicated to growing a diverse team while continuing to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels safe and empowered to be themselves.

What you can expect if you apply:

• A response to your application within 15 working days
• An interview process consisting of:
  • An initial discovery call with the recruiter
  • A first stage interview via Microsoft Teams
  • Additional interview (likely face to face) with the stakeholders you'll be working with closely in the role

We're keen to ensure our hiring process allows you to be at your best, so if you need us to make any adjustments, please just let us know.