Senior Legal Counsel

We’re Standard Life, a retirement specialist focused entirely on retirement savings and income. We champion the belief that everyone’s journey to and through retirement can be better, and for more than 200 years, we’ve been helping our customers plan and prepare for their financial futures.

Life today is increasingly complicated, uncertain and unpredictable. People move through different careers, face unexpected moments and navigate important choices. We offer our colleagues flexibility, trust and benefits that work for whatever life brings. In return we expect curiosity, connection, accountability and high standards. We make room for what matters - so you can bring your best, every day.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced senior lawyer to join as Senior Legal Counsel on a 12-month fixed term contract as maternity cover, providing legal advice across corporate and strategic projects at Standard Life.

Working as part of the Corporate and Investments Legal team, you’ll provide pragmatic, commercially focused advice to senior stakeholders and colleagues across the business. You’ll take ownership of complex legal matters, work with a high degree of autonomy and use external counsel effectively where specialist support is required. This role offers the opportunity to apply and deepen your legal expertise while supporting the delivery of key corporate and strategic projects.

We’re looking for a senior qualified lawyer with experience gained in-house or in private practice. You’ll bring strong technical expertise, sound legal judgement and the ability to advise with confidence on complex matters. A background in financial services would be helpful, together with an understanding of asset management operations, asset classes and investment vehicles.

• Excellent legal drafting, negotiation and analytical skills, with the ability to provide clear, practical and commercially focused advice on complex matters.
• Significant experience advising on and negotiating investment services agreements, such as investment management agreements, custody agreements, fund link agreements and ancillary services agreements.
• Experience advising on investment-related commercial contracts, such as IT agreements and market data licences, with the ability to identify and manage key legal and commercial risks.
• Experience managing external counsel to deliver cost-effective, business-aligned advice on complex or specialist matters.
• Excellent relationship-building and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to collaborate effectively across General Counsel, senior stakeholders and external suppliers.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you. 

 If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best. 

We’re reviewing applications as they come in, so apply early to avoid missing out.

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