paralegal Southampton, England
Job description
Want to join our team of Benefexers? We need awesome people to join us on our mission to make work a great place to be for absolutely everyone!
Benefex is the company behind OneHub, the award-winning platform for employee benefits, reward and recognition, and internal communications. Benefex has won over 50 awards for delivering consumer-grade employee experiences to global organisations including AstraZeneca, Bank of America, BT, Centrica, E.ON, Liberty Global and Skyscanner.
Benefex is a fast-growing, private equity-backed, global SaaS-based technology business which is in expansion mode and looking for future Benefexers to join us! The successful candidate will be ambitious, enjoys dynamic and fast-paced settings and welcomes collaborative working relationships – all within Benefex’s unique employee-centric culture!
The role will be a great to opportunity for an individual keen to establish their career working in-house or for a junior lawyer to continue to develop their skills. If successful in the role, there will also be an option to pursue an in-house training contract at Benefex (subject to business need). The successful candidate will be an integral part of the high-performing (and friendly) Benefex Legal team, and will work closely with key stakeholders across the business, including the award-winning Benefex General Counsel. The role will provide access to a dynamic and varied workload of commercial contracts, corporate work, data protection and intellectual property matters under the direct supervision of the Senior Legal Counsel.
This will include:
· Reviewing, marking up, and negotiating commercial contracts and NDAs.
· Assisting with legal transformation programmes.
· Advising on data protection and privacy queries.
· Advising on contractual interpretation questions.
· Assisting with contentious matters.
· Liaising with the business to gather information and understand commercial and legal issues.
Qualifications and experience
· Legal education (LLB or GDL; LPC / SQE desirable)
· Proactive and self-motivated with a 'can-do' attitude
· Good written and oral communication skills
· Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
· Curiosity and a desire to learn, get “stuck in” and take ownership of the company’s, the team’s, and your own success.
This role offers an opportunity to work with our fantastic customer base. You'll be helping them to create an exceptional experience for their employees, enabling them to develop innovative solutions to promote better outcomes delivered through technology.
In return, you’ll get to work somewhere truly amazing. As a business, we’re passionate about the employee experience - and that’s not just the employee experience of our clients’ employees, but the experience of every single person who works for us too.
Sound like the role for you? If so, please get in touch, as we’re looking to recruit into this position as quickly as possible. This is a hybrid role with 2-3 days per week in our Southampton office.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £25,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Bereavement leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Southampton: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- Do you have a legal education such as LLB or GDL?
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Southampton
Reference ID: Legal
