Legal Counsel

• Transaction support: Provide contract and commercial legal subject matter and business partner support and expertise for Customer Team activities across the Commercial Aviation Contracting team. This will include a degree of international travel, sometimes at short notice to support customer negotiations.
• Legal advice: Deliver timely, cost effective, pro-active, and technically correct legal advice in a user friendly and decisive manner.
• Risk management: At all phases of our transactions, identify and assess potential risks and liabilities proposing and negotiating solutions to manage, minimise or mitigate such risks or liabilities whilst achieving the expected financial returns.
• Tools development: Assist the team in the development of new precedent documents, fallback positions, and playbooks to assist in the efficient deployment of our products and services to customers.
• Training and learning: Develop and implement training and knowledge management, deploying best practice and actively sharing knowledge with colleagues in the legal function and the business.
• External law firm management: Secure support from and manage interaction, as appropriate, with our external law firms in a cost-efficient manner.
• Relationship building: Work closely with internal clients, building and maintaining strong and collaborative relationships across all businesses and functions.

• Qualified and practicing lawyer. Ideally 5+ years PQE
• Technical legal knowledge and practical experience of contracting ideally in Civil Aerospace Customer facing environment.
• Well-developed interpersonal, diplomacy, communication, influencing and negotiations skills.
• Flexible, innovative, and fast paced working environment.
• Ability to solve complex problems while maintaining customer focus.
• Highly motivated and capable of working under own initiative.
• Sound commercial judgement and business acumen.
• Ability to prioritise workloads to meet demanding deadlines under pressure.
• Experience of influencing both at a functional and task level, as well as at senior levels of the organisation

• Generous Annual Leave
• Retirement Savings through the Rolls-Royce Retirement Savings Trust
• Group Life Assurance provides for a lump sum benefit if you die whilst employed by Rolls-Royce
• Group Income Protection provides an income in the event that you are unable to work due to illness or injury
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