Legal Adviser - Acacium Group : Job Details

Legal Adviser

Acacium Group

Hybrid in our London office

Permanent, full time

Unlock your potential:

Are you a qualified solicitor or barrister with strong in-house experience? Do you enjoy working autonomously with an exceptionally interesting and varied workload?

We're seeking a strategic and commercially minded solicitor or barrister to join our legal team as a Legal Adviser. In this role you will be responsible for providing day-to-day legal advice and support to our 20+ global businesses across a wide spectrum of legal matters, so we're looking for an adaptable individual with a broad skillset! Acting as a true business partner, you will liaise with internal stakeholders up to c-suite level, advising on all the Group’s legal needs to enable our business to achieve its goals whilst protecting us from risk.

You will be joining a well established, high performing legal team with 50+ years experience across multiple sectors, so you will have access to endless learning and development opportunities to support you as you progress within your career.

Acacium Group is a leading healthcare and life sciences delivery partner. We combine access to workforce, technology and sector expertise to increase the sustainability of the global healthcare and lifesciences system from early-stage clinical research, to acute and palliative care.

Every day you will...

• Proactively partner with all business divisions to offer timely, expert legal counsel that supports business objectives and mitigates legal risks
• Advise our Executive leadership and Board of Directors, and input on legal reports to such audience
• Support the oversight of and advice on litigation across the Group to minimise exposure and cost
• Collaborate with and manage external counsel, ensuring high quality and cost-effective advice is procured
• Support the smooth delivery of M&A transactions by working in coordination with Group stakeholders and external counsel, from due diligence to negotiations and final agreements, mitigating risks and maximising value
• Work closely with the relevant teams to support their accountability for compliance, advise on communication with regulators and internal stakeholders in the event of a breach/other crisis management
• Support the delivery of robust and compliant corporate governance and support the delivery of the Group’s annual insurance renewal across all lines
• Create and implement legal policies and procedures, ensuring they are aligned with the Group’s goals and legal requirements
• Deliver training programmes to the business to ensure compliance with legal frameworks

What's in it for you?

We love exceptional people, and in return, we offer an exciting place to work, with a wide range of benefits, rewards and opportunities to grow your career, including:

• Unrivalled career opportunities that come from being part of a global group made up of over 20 healthcare, staffing and life sciences businesses
• Learning & development opportunities tailored to your role, as well as fully funded qualifications
• Gym flex- discounted gym memberships, UK-wide
• Events and incentives including regular team away days
• Rewards portal offering discounts on shops, restaurants, bars and cinemas
• Rewards and recognition programme awarding monthly vouchers to nominated employees
• Free flu vaccinations
• Cycle to work scheme
• Life assurance, critical illness cover and private medical insurance
• Optional charity involvement with two paid volunteering days a year

Join us and make a difference!

If you want to join a global, marketing-leading organisation who are committed to the human side of business, then look no further. Acacium Group is the UK’s largest healthcare staffing and solutions partner and specialise in the healthcare, social care, and life sciences industries. We are a business with scale, leading digital capabilities and a strong financial profile, with a vision to be the leading global healthcare solutions partner.

We are powered by the best people and have an unrivalled and diverse range of capabilities, all while incorporating our company values into everything we do - Putting People First, Always by your Side, Driven by Excellence.

Join us and play a key part of shaping the future of society and improving people’s lives!

To thrive in this role, you must...

• Be a qualified solicitor or barrister with 4-6 years PQE
• Have strong in-house legal experience
• Ideally have legal experience within the healthcare. life sciences or staffing and recruitment sectors (desirable)
• Have exceptional stakeholder management skills

Our Inclusion Commitment:

We are passionately committed to being a truly inclusive and diverse company- it is at the heart of our core value of Putting People First. We continue to enhance our culture of inclusion and diversity across all of our roles and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds and communities.