Associate (Commercial & Procurement)
Job Introduction
- Progressing, drafting and negotiating a diverse workload of commercial contracting matters of varying complexity and scale in a variety of sectors including health, central government, local government and utilities.
- Undertaking, preparing and managing contracts and other key documents relating to the procurement of large scale projects that fall within the scope of procurement law.
- Advising on commercial joint ventures and other types of PPPs.
- Advising on technical aspects of procurement litigation matters as appropriate to support litigation colleagues.
- General advice on contractual and commercial matters for a range of public sector clients and private sector clients who help to deliver public services.
- Managing your own matters, time and relationships and being a team player at all times.
- Actively identifying and exploiting business development opportunities and marketing activity for team clients and your own contacts.
- Initiating and participating in marketing / network activities in order to maintain and develop work from existing clients and potential clients.
- Creating content for, and presenting and assisting in client and other external seminars and training opportunities, leading and taking part in pitches and leading and contributing positively to business development.
- Maintaining and developing technical knowledge through attending training sessions, reading appropriate publications and exceeding Law Society CPD requirements.
- Leading and contributing to technical and sector knowledge within the team and firm.
- Supporting the effective running of the team e.g. contributing to team meetings, reviewing advice, reports and documents of more junior fee earners and providing guidance and feedback, assisting with the allocation of work.
- Providing support for colleagues where appropriate e.g. progressing matters in colleagues’ absence, supporting CRM activities.
- Continually monitoring and taking responsibility for own financial performance and demonstrating proactive financial management; attention to billing regimes, credit control, debt collection, accounting procedures and client service level agreements.
- Handling confidential data in line with the firm's data security protocols.
The Ideal Candidate
- Experience of progressing, drafting and negotiating a diverse workload of commercial contracting matters of varying complexity and scale.
- Experience of undertaking, preparing and managing contracts and other key documents relating to the procurement of projects that fall within the scope of the procurement law.
- Highly-motivated, sharing our commitment to providing an excellent service to our clients.
- Strong academic background coupled with the ability to formulate and present sound, coherent advice, both orally and in writing.
- Ability to think creatively and pragmatically to add value and provide risk-focused, practical advice.
- Ability to adopt a client focused and commercial perspective rather than an ‘academic’ approach to legal issues, coupled with a keen grasp of legal issues, as these arise (demonstrating a clear ability to learn quickly ‘on the job’).
- Willingness to take responsibility and ownership of client work, balancing confidence in your own ability and appropriate self-sufficiency with a willingness to learn and awareness of the boundaries of your own competence/authority.
- Ability to deal confidently and professionally with clients on a day to day basis and to develop relationships with individual clients.
- Ability to work alongside other professional advisors and consultants as part of a project team.
- Ability to work effectively with colleagues, participate in team-working and develop relationships within the firm.
- Change oriented with a positive, flexible approach towards the implementation of new initiatives.
About DAC Beachcroft
We're a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We're market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we're market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-five housebuilders.
We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe. In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Miami, plus a broad network of affiliations across the globe.
Working with us
Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. Combine this with our supportive culture and hybrid working model, and you have: a Life that Works.
Our flexible approach means that we help our colleagues to be their best at work, while recognising that they have all sorts of different interests and commitments outside work.
We pride ourselves on our supportive, approachable culture. We are trusted, appreciated as individuals and embraced as part of a team. At DACB, we don’t just accept your differences, we celebrate and advocate for them. From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you as an individual. Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the ‘whole you’ to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are!
Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft LLP resourcing team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible. We do work with recruitment agencies and where we require external support we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us. Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the resourcing team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable. Our resourcing team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com
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