# Senior Commercial Lawyer

**Company**: Government Legal Department
**Location**: Bristol, South West
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: GBP 77,584 - 79,079 per year
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Government & Public Sector

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Commercial Lawyer to join our Commercial Law Group (CLG), a dynamic and specialist commercial legal service with over 250 lawyers. As a Grade 6 Senior Commercial Lawyer, you will play a key leadership role, providing direction to teams and supporting Deputy Directors in the delivery of commercial legal services to central government departments, executive agencies, and Arm's Length Bodies.

You will be expected to operate as a highly experienced, independent, and practical commercial lawyer, with the technical knowledge and gravitas to gain the confidence of senior clients, ministers, stakeholders, and colleagues. You will lead, manage, and develop other lawyers within your team and provide strong professional leadership, helping to build capability across the organisation in line with corporate objectives.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Developing strategies and delivering high-quality legal advice on complex and challenging projects, often to demanding deadlines

- Exercising sound judgement in relation to matters of national importance, drawing on strong legal and strategic analysis, pragmatism, and pro-activity

- Leading and developing a mini-team, setting strategy and direction

- Supporting Deputy Directors and contributing to wider senior leadership of CLG

- Negotiating effectively

- Thinking strategically and creatively, seeing legal issues in their wider context, and advising accordingly

The ideal candidate will have:

- Good commercial and contract law experience (including contract drafting) and/or good public procurement experience

- Excellent powers of analysis of legal commercial problems, together with sound commercial legal judgement

- The ability to lead and develop a mini-team, setting strategy and direction

- The ability to support Deputy Directors and contribute to wider senior leadership of CLG

- The ability to negotiate effectively

- The ability to think strategically and creatively, seeing legal issues in their wider context, and advising accordingly

In return, we offer a salary of GBP 77,584 - 79,079 per year, a comprehensive Legal Induction, and a wide range of external legal resources.

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## Skills

### Required
- commercial law
- contract law
- public procurement law
- contract drafting
- strategic analysis
- leadership
- team management
- negotiation

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