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About the role

Due to the continuing growth of our business, Learning Pool is seeking to hire an experienced legal professional to join our team as a Contracts Manager

This role, which reports to the Director of People and Performance is a key strategic hire and the successful candidate will have the opportunity to directly influence our strategy and play a key role in building strong relationships with our clients. 

We hope to hire someone with ambition, drive and commercial acumen for this role and we’ll support the individual to develop their skills in a fast-paced, high-tech environment.


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What you'll be doing

Your main responsibilities will include: 

  • Negotiating and executing all contracts with clients and prospective clients
  • Overseeing the delivery of legal services required by the business achieve its business plan
  • Implementing legal and contractual strategies for the business which are consistent with the long term interests of the company
  • Highlighting risks where necessary and seeking ways to mitigate them through innovative solutions.
  • Reviewing and completing supply agreements, including IT and service agreements arising from the company’s business operations, in conjunction with the relevant Director
  • Working closely with the commercial teams to ensure they are aware of the company’s commercial, legal and governance policies
  • Ensuring that all legal documentation is compliant with all current legislation, regulation and best practice
  • Identifying and delivering business process improvements initiatives to related to all legal and business affairs
  • Advising the senior management team on legal matters as they arise
  • Responsibility for legal due diligence as part of our M&A strategy
  • Managing and developing more junior members of the team to help them achieve their potential
  • Building relationships with key business partners and investors
Who we are looking for

The successful candidate will have at least 3 years of experience in negotiating commercial contracts. They will thrive on delivering high-quality commercial advice acting as a trusted advisor to our business. They will be able to demonstrate a proactive approach, strong commercial skills, exceptional communication skills and will be ambitious.

At the interview we’ll want to see that you can demonstrate these characteristics:

  • Highly flexible and motivated with the ability to work unsupervised
  • Sound decision-making skills
  • Results orientated and metrics-driven
  • Outstanding communication and leadership skills with an ability to deliver clear and concise information at all levels
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Strategic thinking, planning and creative problem-solving skills
  • Ability to work under pressure and manage a significant workload
  • Ability to build relationships across the Learning Pool team 
  • Commercial awareness with the ability to present innovative solutions to contractual negotiations
  • Experience in leading negotiations on a high volume of contracts and negotiations
  • Ability to work in a self-directed, fast-paced entrepreneurial environment
  • Excellent communication skills (online, telephone and face to face)
  • The ability to negotiate with compromise solutions with a number of parties
  • A positive, friendly and can-do attitude

 

 

 

 

Benefits

The Learning Pool team is filled with 200 people who have a real passion for what they do.

We’ve got a fresh approach to partnering with our customers. One that makes a real difference with a 98% customer recommendation rate. We are a full-service online training and analytics provider, offering courses, tools, and content creation to nearly 800 organizations and 2.5 million learners.

With the largest and most flexible catalogue of learning content on the market, we deliver a highly customized learning experience, at a fraction of the cost of a bespoke project. We support organizations globally with their training blend, including personalized learning, gamification, and AI-driven performance support.

Learning Pool won the 2018 Learning Technologies Company of the Year, received a 2020 Stevie Award for Customer Service, is listed annually in the Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For, and is a Gold Investors In People company. In addition, the company is the only Core Leader offering Lower Total Cost of Ownership solutions in the 2020 Fosway Digital Learning 9-Grid.


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Contracts Manager

If you’re interested in applying for this role please submit your CV (no longer than two pages long) with a cover letter no later than 6th January 2021, using the apply button below.

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