Senior Legal Counsel, Commercial

at  Bupa Global

Senior Legal Counsel, Commercial
Job Description:

Provide professional, strategic and operational legal advice and assistance, in order to manage and mitigate contractual legal risks within Bupa, including:

• Operational responsibility for a significant BU, namely Health Clinics, and a significant function, namely Procurement, within BGUK;
• As an expert on procurement and large customer-facing contracts, providing advice and support to the business in drafting and negotiating agreements with suppliers and Clinics corporate customers and business partners, in order to achieve agreed business outcomes and ensure compliance with all applicable law and regulation, including Bupa’s own policies, guidance and procedures;
• Working closely with the procurement team to deliver effective support and advice as a key team member in RFI, RFP and competitive tender processes;
• Working closely with Health Clinics Sales and Digital teams to deliver effective support of Health Clinics corporate customer contracting and legal support for new Digital propositions (end to end where appropriate)
• Developing, aligning with the business, and implementing legal strategy, policies and processes in order to mitigate legal risk for Bupa;
• Providing an escalation point for complex technical queries and ensuring their effective and commercially sound resolution;
• Making a strong contribution to the development of an effective, efficient, motivated and agile Commercial Legal team;
• Procuring and co-ordinating high quality and cost-effective external legal advice where appropriate, seeking added value from Bupa’s external legal relationships

ROLE OVERVIEW

The Senior Legal Counsel, Commercial is a member of the Commercial Legal team, which sits in the Commercial, Corporate & Property Legal directorate and is part of the wider BGUK Market Unit ("BGUK") Legal team.
The Commercial Legal team is the centre of excellence for commercial contracts lawyers within BGUK. As part of the Commercial Legal team you will be accountable for providing legal advice to underpin delivery of Bupa’s business strategy and purpose, in particular ensuring that risks are being appropriately managed via diligent contracting. This will predominantly relate to procurement contracting within BGUK and Group businesses, corporate sales contracting within the Health Clinics business unit ("BU") and digital initiatives.

WHAT YOU’LL DO…

Provide professional, strategic and operational legal advice and assistance, in order to manage and mitigate contractual legal risks within Bupa, including:

• Operational responsibility for a significant BU, namely Health Clinics, and a significant function, namely Procurement, within BGUK;
• As an expert on procurement and large customer-facing contracts, providing advice and support to the business in drafting and negotiating agreements with suppliers and Clinics corporate customers and business partners, in order to achieve agreed business outcomes and ensure compliance with all applicable law and regulation, including Bupa’s own policies, guidance and procedures;
• Working closely with the procurement team to deliver effective support and advice as a key team member in RFI, RFP and competitive tender processes;
• Working closely with Health Clinics Sales and Digital teams to deliver effective support of Health Clinics corporate customer contracting and legal support for new Digital propositions (end to end where appropriate)
• Developing, aligning with the business, and implementing legal strategy, policies and processes in order to mitigate legal risk for Bupa;
• Providing an escalation point for complex technical queries and ensuring their effective and commercially sound resolution;
• Making a strong contribution to the development of an effective, efficient, motivated and agile Commercial Legal team;
• Procuring and co-ordinating high quality and cost-effective external legal advice where appropriate, seeking added value from Bupa’s external legal relationships;