Legal Executive Milton Keynes, England
bp
Full Time
Milton Keynes, England
30171 - 34378 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Job Profile Summary
Role basis - 12 month fixed term contract.
Do you want to be part of a diverse, collaborative team leading the way in making energy cleaner and better?
We are looking for a Legal Executive to join the team.
The Legal Executive also supports the Directors in ensuring managing the execution of legal documents, ensuring compliance with reporting and company secretarial requirements
You will help to deliver value through providing support as instructed, to assist effective and efficient contracting activity.
Prepare contract briefs, performs detailed proofreading and editing of contract materials and supports wider ad hoc pre-award contracts activity.
Ensures contracts are implemented with the appropriate systems, compliance and contract management set-up.
Assists in executing post-award contract management, including interpretation and implications of terms and conditions, monitoring contract expiration dates and identifying need for extensions or renewals.
Evaluates and negotiates contracts in compliance with BP contract templates and reimbursement structure standards.
Generates complex contracts and agreements including interpretation of contract requirements, contract administration, risk management, change management, conflict resolution, and delivery and payment for products.
Works directly with Legal, Tax and other functions to facilitate company objectives and resolve customer issues, providing customer satisfaction, and acts as the first point of contact for suppliers/contract holders for as long as the contract lasts.
Ensures timely resolution to sourcing, updating procedures and new account plans, partnering with site procurement management to maintain ownership of all issues and managing the dispute process to establish Service Level Agreements.
Do you want to be part of a diverse, collaborative team leading the way in making energy cleaner and better?
We are looking for a Legal Executive to join the team.
What this role does!
This role plays a key role in supporting the UK operations with the management of legal queries, deeds and guarantees on behalf of several teams – principally the Real Estate and Dealer teams.The Legal Executive also supports the Directors in ensuring managing the execution of legal documents, ensuring compliance with reporting and company secretarial requirements
You will help to deliver value through providing support as instructed, to assist effective and efficient contracting activity.
Prepare contract briefs, performs detailed proofreading and editing of contract materials and supports wider ad hoc pre-award contracts activity.
Ensures contracts are implemented with the appropriate systems, compliance and contract management set-up.
Assists in executing post-award contract management, including interpretation and implications of terms and conditions, monitoring contract expiration dates and identifying need for extensions or renewals.
Evaluates and negotiates contracts in compliance with BP contract templates and reimbursement structure standards.
Generates complex contracts and agreements including interpretation of contract requirements, contract administration, risk management, change management, conflict resolution, and delivery and payment for products.
Works directly with Legal, Tax and other functions to facilitate company objectives and resolve customer issues, providing customer satisfaction, and acts as the first point of contact for suppliers/contract holders for as long as the contract lasts.
Ensures timely resolution to sourcing, updating procedures and new account plans, partnering with site procurement management to maintain ownership of all issues and managing the dispute process to establish Service Level Agreements.
Job Advert
In this role, we have the following requirements:
- Prior Paralegal experience within Real Estate - Retail/ Convenience preferred
- Experience handling and responding to a variety of litigation matters, including dealing with approvals, consent forms, authorities
- Previous experience of managing approvals for changes
- Fantastic administration and organisational skills
- Ability to work well with outside counsel, have strong business acumen, excellent attention to detail, and a great teammate
- Exceptional organisational skills, excellent interpersonal skills (both oral and written), and sound judgement
- Ability to think quickly and analytically and be able to prioritise under short deadlines
Education
- Degree level education - Law or equivalent experience
At bp, we provide the following environment & benefits to you:
- A company culture where we respect our diverse and unified teams
- A competitive reward package that include an annual wellbeing allowance, life & health insurance/ private medical
- Access to social communities and networks
- Learning opportunities and other development opportunities to craft your career path
- And many others benefits!
Entity
Customers & Products
Job Family Group
Procurement & Supply Chain Management Group
Relocation available
No
Travel required
Negligible travel
Country
United Kingdom
About BP
CUSTOMER AND PRODUCTS
We’re gearing up for the future. At bp our goal for C&P is to deliver the future of mobility, energy and services for our customers by innovating with new business models and service platforms.
C&P will become a hub, housing our midstream, lubricants, aviation, sale of chemicals, mobility and convenience, marketing and our next-generation businesses, making it a highly integrated and interconnected organisation. And with safety being our core value, our commitment to safe and reliable operations will never change.
Want to join the team? This means:
We’re gearing up for the future. At bp our goal for C&P is to deliver the future of mobility, energy and services for our customers by innovating with new business models and service platforms.
C&P will become a hub, housing our midstream, lubricants, aviation, sale of chemicals, mobility and convenience, marketing and our next-generation businesses, making it a highly integrated and interconnected organisation. And with safety being our core value, our commitment to safe and reliable operations will never change.
Want to join the team? This means:
- being customer-centric, agile and responsive to changing customer needs and dynamic markets
- focusing on growth and development of customer offers
- optimising the chemicals and fuels value chains to maximise integrated value
- contributing to the reduction of carbon intensity of the products we create, and sell, by 50% by 2050 or sooner
- creating strategic partnerships that drive long-term value for C&P
- being digitally enabled and empowered by customer insights and data to deliver solutions.
Experience Level
Intermediate
Legal disclaimer
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic background, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations.
bp
https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/careers.html
London, United Kingdom
Bernard Looney
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Energy & Utilities
1908
