Paralegal

Birmingham or Glasgow

12 Month FTC

Role Overview

Here at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We’re naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We’ll truly value your ideas. You’ll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You’ll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results.

Our people are our success, and we work as one team.

We are recruiting a Paralegal based in either our Birmingham or Glasgow office to work within the Central Procurement and Contracts team. This role will support the lawyers on a variety of in-house paralegal duties and administrative tasks.

Our standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, however, we are happy to consider flexible working requests.

Candidate Overview

We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:

Previous paralegal experience, ideally within a global commercial law firm.
Demonstrate strong previous document management and project management experience

Experience of:

Preparing basic legal documentation – templated letters of engagement, non-disclosure agreements, change control notices, termination notices
Reviewing standard supplier agreements
Undertaking commercial and high-level legal research
Managing precedents and other internal templates
Managing contract, supplier and spend databases
Supporting lawyers in the CPC team on project management for large scale projects
Supporting Procurement Category Managers – preparing legal terms sheets for tender activities
Coordinating due diligence on supplier agreements
Coordinating document executions and filing
Assisting CPC Team lawyers with day-to-day administrative duties
Dealing with any additional ad hoc duties that may arise

What happens next?

Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email.

We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.

Our strength lies in our differences.

We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It’s with different perspectives that we’ll find solutions to our clients’ most complex challenges. It’s how we’ll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.

As an inclusive employer, we are willing to consider any flexible working requests.