Group Legal Director - Property Development, Asset Management
The responsibilities with this senior role include: Legal Service Delivery
- Lead on key strategic and complex legal matters relating to real estate development, property/asset management and rural/coastal assets.
- Ensure legal services are delivered efficiently and aligned with business priorities.
- Maintain high standards of legal accuracy, discretion, and responsiveness, particularly when dealing with sensitive stakeholders and constitutional matters.
Leadership and Team
- Work collaboratively with senior leadership colleagues in the department to ensure a coordinated and consistent service is delivered to the business overall.
- Coach, mentor and line manage 2 senior associate legal counsels, fostering a high-performance culture and supporting career development.
- Actively contribute to and role model collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and continuous learning across the department and the wider business, championing and facilitating (directly and indirectly) the development of others, mentoring more junior colleagues and supporting succession planning.
- Champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing within the department and across the wider business.
Legal Business Partnering
- Act as the lead strategic legal advisor for the two business units, embedding legal expertise into strategic decision-making.
- Provide proactive, pragmatic and solution-oriented legal advice that effectively balances commercial opportunity with legal risk, taking into consideration other risk factors of relevance (e.g. reputational, financial, sustainability etc.).
- Build strong and trusted relationships with senior business leaders, acting as a critical friend and sounding board.
- Support the business in navigating constitutional matters and sensitive stakeholder relationships with discretion and integrity.
External Legal Panel Management
- Manage relationships with external panel firms supporting the business units.
- Ensure legal advice received externally is of the highest quality, commercially sound, and aligned with business needs.
- Drive cost certainty and reduction in external legal spend, ensuring value for money and effective use of resources.
- Monitor performance and delivery of panel firms, providing feedback and ensuring continuous improvement.
Governance and Strategic Support
- Work closely with the Group Head of Legal to ensure effective support at Board and Executive level.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of legal strategy, policies, and frameworks.
- Support the organisation's constitutional obligations and governance processes.
Operational Excellence
- Work collaboratively with Legal, Ethics & Compliance colleagues to help champion and drive improvements in legal operations, including digital transformation, process optimisation and risk management.
- Monitor legal trends and regulatory developments, ensuring the business remains compliant and informed.
- Provide an external perspective that brings best practices, experience and insight from other organisations.
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