Legal Counsel

Contract & Commercial Legal Counsel

Location: York or Norwich based

Salary: £55,000 – £65,000

Are you a qualified solicitor, legal executive, or paralegal with commercial contract experience, preferably with procurement and supply chain contracts? Then this role is for you!

We are currently recruiting for a Legal Counsel to join our in-house legal team.  The role can be based in our Norwich or York offices.  You will be part of a friendly team of experienced legal professionals where training and support is available to help develop your career and give you the tools needed to excel in this role.

We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, proactive, has a can-do attitude, and is keen to develop their legal and contractual experience by advising upon and negotiating a varied range of commercial contracts (although the focus will initially be on IT contracts).  

A bit about the job:

Within this role you will be acting as a legal adviser, providing first class legal services to the Aviva Group as well as monitoring and mitigating legal risks in accordance with the Group policies.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Qualified solicitor/legal executive/paralegal with commercial contract experience
• Ability to advise upon commercial contracts and conduct third-party negotiations (including procurement and supply chain contracts)
• Commercially pragmatic and creative problem solving
• Experience of working for a financial services company desirable but not essential
• Excellent oral and written communication

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too.  And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you.  We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Salary around £55,000 - £65,000 - depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications
• Bonus opportunity - 10% of annual salary. Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.
• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

Take a look to learn more.  Put a salary into this calculator to see what your total Aviva Reward could be.

Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here

We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send an email to balazs.palcsek@aviva.com stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you.