Group Legal Counsel - 12 mth FTC - Maternity
The opportunity
As Group Legal Counsel at Linesight, (Maternity Cover – 12 mths) you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.
We are seeking an experienced legal professional to step into the role of Group General Counsel on a maternity cover basis. This is a strategic leadership position responsible for overseeing all legal aspects of the business globally, ensuring compliance, mitigating risk, and advising senior leadership on legal matters.
In this role you will:
- Provide strategic legal advice to the executive team and board on corporate, commercial, regulatory, and compliance matters.
- Lead and manage the global legal function, including external counsel relationships.
- Oversee legal aspects of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and other strategic transactions.
- Ensure compliance with international laws and regulations across jurisdictions
- Draft, review, and negotiate high-value contracts and agreements.
- Advise on employment law, data protection, intellectual property, and dispute resolution.
- Support governance and company secretarial duties, including board meetings and filings.
- Monitor legislative changes and assess their impact on the business.
We would love to hear from you if you:
- Qualified solicitor or barrister with a minimum of 10 years’ post-qualification experience.
- Proven track record as General Counsel or in a senior legal leadership role within a multinational or consultancy environment.
- Strong knowledge of corporate, commercial, and regulatory law.
- Experience managing legal teams and working with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and leadership skills.
- Ability to operate with discretion, integrity, and sound judgment.
- Beneficial to have experience in the construction, engineering, or consultancy sectors.
- Familiarity with international legal frameworks and multi-jurisdictional operations.
- Strategic thinker with a proactive approach to risk management and compliance.
All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.
At Linesight, we believe that our success is tied to the success of our employees, and we are committed to creating a workplace that is fair, equitable, and inclusive for everyone. We understand that creating an environment where all employees have an equal opportunity to thrive requires a concerted effort across every stage of their time with us, from hiring and onboarding to promotion, career growth, and development.
As part of this commitment, we have implemented a range of policies and initiatives to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). This starts with our attraction pipeline and accessible job descriptions, designed to attract a broad range of candidates, and continuing throughout the employee life cycle with DE&I checks built in at every stage. Fairness, consistency, and transparency are the core principles for all our hiring, salary increase, and promotion decisions with built-in gender pay gap checks. Employee and family-friendly policies also enhance inclusion and equity in our teams.
About Corporate Services
An extensive range of corporate services expertise is required for an organisation of our scale and reach to be successful, and we have fantastic teams of professionals across a range of functions such as tax and finance, marketing, operations, and people and organisational development. Whether at the earliest stages of your career, or an experienced professional, we are committed to nurturing, supporting, mentoring, and stretching our people, so that you can maximise your potential and meet your career aspirations in your field of expertise.
Life at Linesight
