Legal Counsel - Customer Team

Rolls-Royce • Full-time • Derby - Moor Lane (UK-EM), United Kingdom • 3d ago

Job Description

Legal Counsel – Customer and Business Development Team
Full-Time
Derby/Hybrid (3 days a week on-site)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Legal Counsel – Commercial Aviation Contracting to join the team in Derby. This role will support a variety of activities, as required, across the Commercial Aviation Contracting team as part of the General Counsel team.

Reporting to SVP & Head of Legal, Commercial Aviation Contracting, you will provide legal support to Customer and Business Development Team in Civil Aerospace working as part of General Counsel in Civil Aerospace.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

The Commercial Aviation Contracting team comprises of three areas: Sales & Contracting, Engine Leasing and Future Programmes. The Sales & Contracting team works as to support the contracting new business opportunities with our commercial airline customers across the globe. The Engine Leasing team supports leasing of engines to customers and exchange activity across the business. The Future Programmes team in involved in a broad range of business development and contracting opportunities for new engine programmes and opportunities with aircraft manufacturers.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

What we offer:

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing:

In this role you will provide contract and commercial legal subject matter support and expertise for Customer Team activities across the Commercial Aviation Contracting team.

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 amendments 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 and develop and implement training and knowledge management, deploying best practice and actively sharing knowledge with colleagues in the legal function and wider business.
External law firm management: Secure support from and manage interaction, as appropriate, with our external law firms in a cost-efficient manner.

Who we’re looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles. And for this role, we are looking for someone who is/has:

Qualified and practicing lawyer.
Technical legal knowledge and significant practical experience of contracting, ideally in Civil Aerospace and/or Customer facing environment.
Well-developed interpersonal, communication, influencing and negotiation skills.
Ability to solve complex problems working with sound commercial judgement and business acumen.
Highly motivated and capable of working under own initiative with ability to prioritise workloads to meet demanding deadlines under pressure.

This role requires significant international travel.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce