Contracts Specialist

This is a part time position, totalling 22.5hrs per week over 3 days.

This is a hybrid working role.

The role will provide commercial and legal administrative support to the Legal team and, where necessary, to the wider legal and corporate governance department, liaising with both internal and external stakeholders to ensure the delivery and management of all commercial and corporate contracts and processes.

The role holder will develop a clear understanding of the Eurofins policies and legal requirements to ensure compliance and adequate protection of Eurofins.

In this role, you will also support meeting the compliance requirements of the Eurofins Group’s UK and Ireland legal entities in a timely manner.  The role includes ensuring that the Group’s UK and Ireland companies comply with the internal “Spending & Contracting Authority” directive.  You will be required to work with the Company Secretary to ensure Legal and Compliance requirements are in place across the UK and Ireland Eurofins Group Companies by supporting the coordination of compliance-related activities.   

• Provide day to day compliance and legal administration support and assistance to the Company Secretary
• Draft and review contracts and agreements, ensuring that appropriate risks are identified, Eurofins stakeholder requirements are catered for, and Eurofins’ reputational and financial interests are adequately protected.
• Analyse legal provisions, including clauses, stipulations, obligations and liabilities.
• Negotiate contract terms and provisions without compromising on core Eurofins policies and requirements.
• Carry out legal research using appropriate legal aids and databases including LexisPSL, and document research outcomes in a detailed, clear and concise manner.
• Assist the wider department, as and when required, on new regulatory developments to ensure that business processes operate within the relevant requirements.
• Support the Business Units in identifying and addressing legal requirements and support the development of processes, procedures and controls as required.
• Enforce record management policies and procedures and coordinate overall file and database management.
• Maintain the contract repository to ensure data is updated and expiration dates are accurate.
• Complete certain procedural tasks through corporate software tools to complete the department's responsibility for compliance processes.
• Assess and filter business requests and determine whether the requests can be dealt with internally or through the use of external legal resource.
• Draft and review appropriate briefs for external legal resource.
• Management and filing of Group’s intercompany service agreements.
• Updating and maintaining the Group’s corporate data held in the Corporate Dataroom and on the Group’s data management system. 
• Assistance with drafting and management of intercompany service agreements for Group UK and Ireland companies.
• Maintain robust systems and tracking to support the management of key tasks and responsibilities
• Assist in the tracking of UK and Ireland companies’ compliance with key governance policies and compliance targets.
• Responding to email queries and calls relevant to the role
• Supporting the wider Legal/Company Secretarial team with administrative tasks as required.