Legal Counsel

Job description

We have an exciting new opportunity for a lawyer to join our Aviva UK General Insurance (UKGI) Legal team.

Our Legal team is a busy and strategically important to our business' core goal of helping our customers, supporting all areas of UKGI's diverse business. The team advises our UKGI business on a wide variety of matters including the full suite of UK general insurance products & propositions, their distribution through a range of channels, any contentious issues relating to the UKGI business and all UK employment matters.

This is a role you can develop and grow in, gaining broad legal and commercial experience, developing relationships with colleagues within and outside our UKGI team and building your understanding of Aviva and the insurance industry more generally. The role will involve working closely with senior colleagues within the Aviva business, Risk and Governance functions and with partners/brokers/third parties as required.

You will be joining a committed and collaborative team based in Norwich, however travel to our other offices in London, Perth, Bristol and York may be required from time to time.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Working collaboratively with members of the team and other teams within Aviva's Legal function.
• Providing high quality, pragmatic legal advice for the UKGI areas on a broad range of projects, products and propositions.
• Building proven relationships with a number of key business partners within Aviva.
• Identifying and mitigating legal risks and raising key risks and issues to the Senior Lawyers, Director of Legal or General Counsel of UKI, as appropriate.
• Providing input into board, committee and other papers where required.
• Supporting Aviva's strategies.

Skills & Experience required

• A qualified lawyer with in-house and/or private practice experience.
• Possesses an eye for detail as well as a commercial, pragmatic attitude.
• Strong knowledge of and experience in contract law is essential.
• Strong relationship management skills and confidence in dealing with clients and senior colleagues.
• Quick to adjust work priorities to meet the changing demands of both the market and internal partners.
• A collaborator and a dedicated teammate.
• Any experience and knowledge of insurance or other regulated financial services in the UK and the law and regulation that relates to them would be helpful but is not essential.

What will you get for this role?

• Annual salary of £35,000 - £40,000 depending on skills, qualifications and experience.
• Generous defined contribution pension scheme.
• Annual performance related bonus and pay review.
• Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days.
• Up to 30% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family (some exclusions apply).
• Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme.

Oh and by the way…

At Aviva we always ‘Care More'. It's our thing. We're all about our people – that's you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you need to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we're very open to that. We'll even try to bend work around your further studies or hobbies where we can.

We care deeply about welcoming people no matter where they're from, how old they are or what disability they have. We encourage applications from every age, race, ethnicity, disability, gender, gender identity, religion, culture, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, pregnancy, maternity or caring responsibility. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you.

As part of that we interview every disabled applicant* that meets the minimum criteria for the job. Just send us an email once you've applied, and we'll make sure we interview you.

If you like the sound of all that, we'd love it if you could submit your application online. If you need an alternative method of applying, please give Megan Douglas a call on: 0121 234 7665 or send an email to: megan.douglas@aviva.com

*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria' we mean you must provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role.