Legal Counsel, Commercial

1 week ago


Cairo, Egypt Bupa Full time

Legal Counsel, Commercial

**Job Description**:
**Legal Counsel, Commercial**

**Full time (40hrs per week)**

**Hybrid Working Options**

**Cairo, Egypt**

Here you'll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. You'll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.

**Role Overview**

The 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.

**You'll help us make health happen by**:

- Being a part of the Commercial Legal team which has operational responsibility for a significant BU, namely Health Clinics, and a significant function, namely Procurement, within BGUK;
- 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)
- Implementing legal strategy, policies and processes in order to mitigate legal risk for Bupa;
- Making a strong contribution to the development of an effective, efficient, motivated and agile Commercial Legal team;
- Ensuring that Bupa's name, reputation and intellectual property rights are protected;
- assisting with the development of procedures, templates and guidance to enable the stakeholders to be more self-sufficient on contracts, in particular low risk contracts;
- Keeping up-to-date with external best practice and developments in the law in order to maintain and share up-to-date knowledge and ensure continuous improvement; and
- Ensuring that appropriate procedures are in place so that the business has adequate advance notice of changes in applicable laws and regulation and to assist the business in understanding the commercial implications of such changes.

**Key Skills needed for this role**:

- 5+ years Post Qualified Experience
- Experience of drafting and negotiating English language (English law contracts is an advantage) supplier and customer-facing agreements, including service, goods, consultancy, agency, high value material outsourcing deals and general commercial agreements, and advising on how to manage any associated risks and strengthen relationships with counterparties.
- Knowledge of data protection, competition law and intellectual property.
- Commercial awareness. Strong drafting and negotiation skills. Good change management skills. Tenacious with a high attention to detail. Conscientious and hard working. Thrives in a dynamic environment. Demonstrated ability to act with good judgment and discretion, including handling sensitive matters appropriately.
- Experience of making risk-based decisions in a complex operating environment with multiple competing demands. Understanding the balance between commercial mechanisms and contractual mechanisms to manage risks and being able to articulate those risks in an appropriate manner (using risk management frameworks).
- Previous experience in an in-house legal department is an advantage.
- Ideally, experience of drafting and negotiation work for technology agreements, including hosted, cloud and managed services.
- Experience of a regulated financial services environment, and/or performance and supplier relationship management is an advantage.

**Bupa**

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

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