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Senior Construction and Procurement Lawyer

Are you looking for an In house legal role that will help us redefine what's possible for our passengers and local community.
As part of our 'Grow with Gatwick' initiative you'll be provided with plenty of training and support to ensure you're developing and growing your career.

Our legal team is small but important and ensures that we meet all our legal obligations.

What is the role

The Senior Construction and Procurement Lawyer is a trusted and valued senior legal advisor to the business.

You will be a construction law subject matter expert responsible for identifying, managing and mitigating legal risk in GAL's capital programmes and construction related activities in a manner that facilitates competitive advantage and commercial growth.

What will you do?

• Provides legal advice primarily to the Construction team, Procurement and the wider business as required, in respect of construction and commercial matters of significant value and complexity
• Acts as trusted legal advisor for the business, providing legal risk mitigation advice to facilitate commercial growth
• Coaches more junior members of the Legal team and wider business
• Advises on relevant legislative and regulatory requirements and keeps abreast of changes to that framework
• Advises in relation to ongoing contract management issues
• Educates the business in relation to legal risk identification and mitigation
• Assists General Counsel with Legal Function budget oversight and management

Do you have what we're looking for?

• A construction law subject matter expert, with deep knowledge of legal risk and mitigation strategies
• Extensive experience advising commercial organisations on managing legal risk in a way that truly facilitates advantage and commercial growth
• Extensive exposure advising on matters of significant complexity and strategic value
• Comfortable assuming a degree of legal risk within reasonable tolerance levels, having deployed available mitigation tools
• Experience advising and influencing at senior levels
• Understanding of where and how to contribute to deliver the best outcomes
• Experience developing and leading teams
• Ability to analyse complex legal and commercial concepts; identify risk and mitigation strategies; and translate into clear, practical and actionable advice that enables the business to further its strategic ambitions
• High degree of commercial awareness and understanding
• Consistently curious, with a strong desire for continuous improvement
• Confident acting autonomously, with ability to ruthlessly prioritise and contribute in areas of greatest strategic importance to GAL
• A credible, trusted voice; able to build strong relationships and influence and constructively challenge at all levels of the business
• Analytical, logical, pragmatic and solution-oriented; a strong communicator
• Respected leader able to support the development of colleagues across the business
• Professional legal qualification and +10 years PQE
• Current practicing certificate

What's it like to work here?Our employees tell us that working here is something special. Everyone is looking to deliver what matters to our passengers. There is so much that makes air travel possible. No day is like another. Our employees enjoy a range of personal, health and financial benefits, including annual leave and high street discounts. We offer a performance-based bonus scheme and our people can request professional training to support them to Grow with Gatwick

We want our people to reflect our local community and the passengers we serve. We know we are all at our best when we feel comfortable and included. We want our people to feel like they can be who they want to be at work, and we work hard to provide them with the respect and flexibility to do so.

We aim to be an equitable, diverse, and inclusive employer. We encourage and support our people to be their best. We seek different perspectives that redefine what's possible. Together we are a team.

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