Senior Solicitor

Centre for Process Innovation Limited

£52,000 – £64,800 per annum, dependent on experience

CPI helps make great ideas and inventions areality. We’re ateam of intelligent people using advances in science and technology to solve the biggest global challenges in healthcare and sustainability.

Through our incredible people and innovation infrastructure, we collaborate with our partners in industry, academia, government, and the investment community to accelerate the development and commercialisation of innovative products.

From health technologies and pharmaceuticals to sustainable food and materials innovations, we turn the entrepreneurial spirit and radical thinking of our people and partners into incredible impact that makes our world abetter place.

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Why this role is important for CPI’swork

CPI has an exciting opportunity for aSenior Solicitor to join their established and growing legal team. Reporting to General Counsel & Company Secretary, the Senior Solicitor will be responsible for providing comprehensive and advanced, in-house legal support to the CPI Group of Companies.

The Role

Key tasks in the role will include (but are not limited to the below), please download the job description for full details available on the CPI careers page :

• To effectively manage the team’s goals and performance, sharing and translating area strategy, ensuring identification and delivery of departmental goals, through utilisation of appropriate management styles, providing feedback and motivation to team members and enabling individuals to meet their potential. This includes providing strong managerial support, performance management, and recruitment, development, and allocation of resource to ensure project delivery and longer-term planning of deliverables.
• To progressively provide supporting day-to-day intellectual property, commercial and contract law advice, mainly assisting internal clients in relation to confidentiality agreements, standard contractual terms, and on bespoke advanced transactional agreements including funding agreements, collaboration agreements, contractual joint ventures, and complex sales agreements.
• To provide creative legal advice across the full range of business activity where legal input (of all types) is required, which may include:
• Corporate transactional advice, which may include transactions in relation to the disposal of subsidiaries, the attraction of investment into subsidiaries, corporate restructuring, membership models, and related due diligence matters;
• Intellectual property advice;
• Property and construction law advice relating to the Group’s current and any future premises
• Commercial contentious matters pre-litigation with aview to early settlement, for example in relation to faulty goods and services or bad purchasing transactions
• Supporting the Governance team on legal matters relating to purchasing, procurement law and subsidy control;
• Supporting the HR team on matters related to employment law;
• Maintaining contractual legal templates used in the Group’s business development, and procurement activities; and
• Providing advice on regulatory matters.
• To deliver legal training to Group staff on confidentiality, intellectual property, contractual matters, and any other areas of law where required.

The person we are seeking

Must be educated to Degree level (or equivalent) in abusiness or legal subject, be aqualified solicitor in England and Wales with acurrent Practising Certificate and;

• Have substantial experience of working in acommercial law firm, or in industry as an in-house lawyer
• Have experience of complex commercial contract matters
• Have proven experience of managing direct reports, or as aminimum day to day supervision of legalwork
• Have experience of working in across-functional role, interfacing with people at all levels within abusiness
• Have an up to date understanding of intellectual property and contract/commercial law and best legal and commercial practice in abusiness environment
• Have experience in high value and/or complex transactions, including with overseas companies
• Possess the ability to provide quality legal advice with acommercial slant in line with business objectives
• Demonstrate an understanding of the commercial realities and needs of abusiness
• Have experience of dealing with awide range of matters creatively
• Have extensive experience of dealing with confidentiality and secrecy arrangements
• Possess knowledge of basic contracts in an intellectual property context

What does CPI offeryou?

At CPI , we offer awide range of benefits to our employees, this includes:

• Up to 36 days holiday, including bank holidays – Plus aholiday purchasing scheme
• Life assurance and accident insurance schemes

CPI is an organisation based in the UK . Commencement of employment is conditional to demonstrating right to work in the UK , sponsorship may be available.