Contracts lawyer Work, Jobs in Huntingdon, Cam (with Salaries)

Senior Lawyer - Commercial Team
North Northamptonshire Council —Corby
- £53,460 - £56,805 a year
- Contracts
- Employee assistance programme
Contracts & Procurement Lawyer
Civic Recruitment Limited —Kettering
- Full-time
- Remote
- Contracts
- Negotiation
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Legal Counsel
Jagex —Cambridge
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- No degree
- Contracts
- Negotiation
- Annual leave
- Flexible schedule
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Principal Lawyer - Commercial Team
North Northamptonshire Council —Corby
- £59,077 - £62,879 a year
- Contracts
- Leadership
- Employee assistance programme
Legal Counsel
Revvity —Cambridge
- English
- Contracts
- Communication skills
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Senior Lawyer Child Protection
Peterborough City Council —Peterborough
- £55,620 - £61,421 a year
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
Legal Counsel
Jagex: The RuneScape Company —Cambridge
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- No degree
- Contracts
- Negotiation
- Annual leave
- Flexible schedule
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Associate Director, Regulatory Legal Counsel
Illumina —Cambridge
- £110,600 - £166,000 a year
- Full-time
- Management
- English
- Travel
Property Lawyer
Civic Recruitment Limited —Kettering
- Full-time
- Microsoft Office
- Analysis skills
- Communication skills
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Employment Lawyer
Civic Recruitment Limited —Kettering
- Remote
- Communication skills
- Negotiation
Quick apply
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Legal Counsel
Healx —Cambridge
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- AI
- Annual leave
- Work from home
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Associate
Mills & Reeve LLP —Cambridge
Litigation Fee Earner
Hegarty Solicitors —Peterborough
- Call to connect
- Organisational skills
- IT
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
Senior/Principal Associate
Mills & Reeve LLP —Cambridge
- English
- Microsoft Office
- IT
Senior Associate
Mills & Reeve LLP —Cambridge
- English
- Business development
- IT
Children Solicitor - NQ Peterborough/Cambridge
The Family Law Group —Peterborough
- £34,000 a year
- Weekend availability
- Hybrid work
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme

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Contracts & Procurement Lawyer
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Senior Lawyer - Commercial Team
North Northamptonshire Council —Corby
Assist in leading and shaping the Commercial Team, setting direction, driving high performance, and ensuring the delivery of timely, solution-focused legal…
£53,460 - £56,805 a year

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Senior Lawyer - Commercial Team

North Northamptonshire Council -
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£53,460 - £56,805 a year

Benefits

Company pension
Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

Procurement
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Our benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

a competitive salary
a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About the role

Join our Commercial Team as a Senior Lawyer

We are seeking an experienced Senior Lawyer to join our Commercial Team for the Council’s Legal Services function, helping to oversee both in-house provision and external legal support. Reporting to the Principal Lawyer, you will play a key role in supporting the delivery of the service and providing professional leadership across the Commercial Team.

The Senior Lawyer is responsible for delivering high-quality legal advice and leading complex casework. The role helps to ensure that legal risk is effectively managed while enabling informed decision-making across the organisation.

Interviews will take place w/c 17th August 2026 and will include a presentation as part of the selection process.

What will you be doing?

Assist in leading and shaping the Commercial Team, setting direction, driving high performance, and ensuring the delivery of timely, solution-focused legal advice to client services.

Support the Principal Lawyer, ensuring strong governance, ethical standards, and that all Council decision-making is lawful and compliant. Provide line management of legal officers and legal assistants. To support the Principal Lawyer with line management responsibilities of up to four lawyers within the team.

Provide expert advice to client services on complex, high-risk matters.

Manage legal risk, involved in complex casework, litigation and ensuring robust risk identification, mitigation, and communication.

Play a key role in leadership, development, and management of a high-performing team, promoting professional excellence, continuous improvement and a positive, values-driven culture.

Budgets, ensuring efficiency and sustainability.

Drive service improvement, enhancing systems, processes, and digital capability to deliver modern, effective legal services.

Advocacy and representation, represent the Council in courts, tribunals, inquiries, mediation and negotiations. Prepare pleadings, statements of case, evidence bundles and associated documentation. Provide legal representation at Committees, Sub-Committees and any other Council Board as required.

About you

Qualified Solicitor, Barrister or FCILEx

Evidence of continuing professional development

Experience in local government or wider public sector including strong knowledge of local government law, governance, the Constitution and decision‑making processes.

Experience in a relevant specialist area to include Contracts & Procurement and Property.

Experience handling complex, sensitive or high‑risk casework.

Experience advising on governance, statutory obligations and public sector decision making.

Up‑to‑date knowledge of legislation, case law and regulatory frameworks relevant to the council services aligned to the legal team.

Experience representing clients in courts/tribunals/hearings/committees.

Please see the Job Description/Person Specification for more information.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

Disability Confident Employer

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council

Armed Forces Community

The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)

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