Manager, Commercial Lawyer, Office of General Counsel, 12 month Secondment, FTC

Join Deloitte's UK General Counsel office as a Commercial lawyer and become part of a high-performing team supporting the firm on a hugely varied and interesting range of legal and commercial matters. You'll work on cutting-edge matters including Generative AI implementation, large-scale procurement contracts, complex technology agreements, and strategic member firm arrangements across the Deloitte network.

We're looking for a talented and experienced lawyer who thrives on variety and wants to make a real impact. This role offers the unique opportunity to work at the heart of one of the world's leading professional services firms, advising on commercial legal matters that directly enable Deloitte's business strategy. You'll gain exposure to senior stakeholders across the firm and develop your expertise across multiple commercial disciplines. At Deloitte, we invest in our people's development and offer the flexibility and support to help you build a rewarding career whilst maintaining work-life balance.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte?It’show we approach the thousands of decisions we make everyday. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, whereverwe arein the world, welead the way ,serve with integrity ,take care of each other ,fosterinclusion , andcollaborate for measurable impact . These five shared values lead every decision wemake and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it mattersmost .

Connect to your opportunity

The Commercial legal team in Deloitte's UK General Counsel office is responsible for supporting and advising the firm in relation to a wide range of legal and commercial matters.

We are looking for a talented and experienced lawyer with a proven ability to work on a wide variety of commercial matters. The role offers the candidate a hugely varied and interesting workload, and the opportunity to be part of a high performing team.

The scope of the role includes advising on and, where relevant, leading the negotiation of:

• Large-scale procurement contracts for a range of goods and services
• Complex technology contracts including hardware, SaaS and associated licensing arrangements
• Managed services and outsourcing contracts
• Sponsorship, CSR, publishing and collaborations, contracts and initiatives
• IP matters: Trademark and brand protection
• Member firm arrangements with other Deloitte firms across the network
• Regulatory matters relating to commercial arrangements
• Implementation and use of Generative AI and other new technologies

Connect to your skills and professional experience

Attracting someone who will share our values, fit into our culture and identify with our purpose , is just as important as attracting someone with the right qualifications or experience.

You're a natural at collaborating for impact . Someone who understands how our business works, and can collaborate across the business with people and teams at all levels. We're all about letting our leaders lead, so we'll give you the breathing space you need to do so. We're also keen to let your creative strengths shine, and to make your own distinctive impact.

You're a trusted business partner . You have strong IQ and EQ and a proven ability to business partner across a broad range of stakeholders and provide proactive, commercial, practical advice to both protect and enable the firm.

You're adaptable and resilient . Proactive, self-motivated and reliable, you're organised with the ability to manage your own workloads, balance varied work and multiple stakeholders, with a flexible approach, "can do" attitude, and ability to learn new areas quickly.

• Experienced and confident lawyer with a proven ability to work on a wide variety of commercial matters (including non-contentious and contentious)
• UK Qualified Lawyer with extensive PQE
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail
• Excellent drafting, negotiation and communication skills, and ability to influence
• Strong interpersonal skills, with an ability to quickly build connections and a highly collaborative approach
• Proven ability to handle sensitive information and situations
• Alignment and behaviour consistent with our Shared Values
• In-house experience (some Professional Services or equivalent large complex organisational experience)
• Experience working on Generative AI or emerging technology matters

Connect to your business - Enabling Functions

Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. From IT to HR, marketing and more, our teams help to support the wider business in everything they do. Bringing your individual skills and specialist knowledge, you can make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.

Finance and Legal

We provide financial management and accounting support that is aligned to each area of Deloitte’s business as well as the leadership team. We prepare the statutory and regulatory reporting required for Deloitte LLP and several other areas, whilst our General Counsel provides legal advice to the Board, the Executive and the Managing Partners.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process, or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"The support that Deloitte offers is great, and the work is always interesting and motivating.” - Deloitte employee, Enabling Functions

Our hybrid working policy

You’ll be based in London with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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