Senior Solicitor

Job Introduction

***Remote/home working with occasional visits to either our Central London or Folkestone, Kent office. So, it’s important you live within a reasonable commuting distance***

Our people are everything to us. The way they deliver exceptional experiences every day for our customers, for their colleagues. The way they own what they do. Their 'Why's it like that?' curiosity. How they always think of others and work together to get things done. For us, for you, make do will never do. Good enough? Not even close. Come and do the best work of your life alongside lovely colleagues. Come to Saga. 

And right now, we are looking for a Senior Solicitor in our Group Professional Services part of our insurance business at an exciting time in Saga’s history. As a Group, Saga is taking to the seas in our brand new, luxury cruise ships and leading the market with innovative insurance and financial products. 

You will provide expert legal advice and regulatory support to all levels of the Saga Group, including the Executive Leadership Team, and Senior Management Team in relation to a broad range of legal matters, of increasing complexity. To support the growth of Saga Group ensuring the delivery of a first class commercial and legal service in a dynamic, competitive, and ever evolving business environment.

And in return, you can look forward to all the responsibility and involvement of an integral role, providing you with a rewarding and fast paced career with an excellent benefits package including life assurance, pension, high street and online discounts, and concessions for holidays and travel.

If this sounds like a role for you then apply now!

Role Responsibility

• Providing autonomous legal advice and professional judgment and support in relation to a broad range of legal issues, often with high complexity, to senior stakeholders across the business with a particular emphasis on legal advice, solutions, and support in relation to complex issues that have a broad impact on the business including the structuring of transactions and providing direction in the resolution of disputes.
• Providing legal advice and professional judgment and acting as legal project lead on complex projects that can range from short projects to longer term projects.
• Drafting and negotiating commercial contracts of varying complexity.
• Providing advice in relation to customer documentation and complaints.
• Influencing and encouraging the business to take account of legal and reputational risk.
• Drafting, reviewing, providing guidance, and training on and ensuring compliance with internal Saga legal policies.
• Supervising and mentoring junior members of the team, whether paralegals, Trainee Solicitors or Solicitors, ensuring a transfer of key knowledge, skills, and experienced best practice.
• Working collaboratively with other members of the legal team, other departments, the wider business, and subsidiaries in providing a fully integrated service across the Saga Group.
• Effectively managing external counsel to ensure that the appropriate counsel is selected, and a cost effective and high-quality service is delivered within the agreed budget.
• Effectively managing relationships with key stakeholders, including legal colleagues, businesses and Group functions and key suppliers.
• Ensuring legal knowledge and awareness of industry developments remain up to date in terms of current and planned legislative changes and relevant parts of the business are advised accordingly with any relevant actions taken to ensure continued legal compliance for Saga Group.

The Ideal Candidate

• A qualified solicitor, barrister, or inter-national equivalent, able to demonstrate varied and sound legal experience, preferably having City/London experience or significant in-house experience.
• Play a full role within the Group Legal Team and be able to manage a full and varied workload autonomously, with minimal direction of the manager.
• Excellent literacy and reasonable numeracy skills together with a competent and confident level of under-standing of Microsoft Software packages
• Strong commercial acumen is essential.

Our Saga Values:

• Precision Pace - Always owning and making things happen. 
• Empathy – Always aware of others. 
• Curiosity – Always asking why.
• Collaboration – Always one team, the Saga team!

Package Description

The standard benefits when you join Saga include: 

• Remote working available where possible

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays with the choice to buy a further 5 days annual leave per year 

• Free private medical insurance after 1 years' service 

• Workplace Pension 

• AXA Be Supported 

• A range of reductions and offers from leading retailers, travel groups and entertainment companies

About the Company

Having spent our first 30 years focused on travel, Saga launched Saga Magazine and developed home and motor insurance and financial services in the 1980s. Private medical and pet insurance followed in the 1990s, along with the launch of our own cruise ship operation. The strength of the Saga brand provides the Group with the ability to develop in-house or partner with suppliers to offer our customers and members highly differentiated, competitively priced products which meet their evolving needs.

Saga exists to help our customers and members lead the life they want to lead. To succeed in this, we know that the most important thing to do is to listen to our customers and members. At the heart of our business model is our drive to know more about our customers’ wants and needs so we are best placed to serve them.

Applying this approach over the past 70 years has enabled us to become the UK's specialist provider of products and services to people aged over 50 in the UK. The Saga brand has become one of the most recognised and trusted brands amongst UK consumers in this demographic and is recognised for its high quality products and exceptional standards of service. These include cruises and holidays, insurance, personal finance and the Saga Magazine.

When you join Saga you will see that we are committed to treating all employees fairly and to offering equal opportunities in all aspects of employment and advancement.

We value diversity not just because it is the right thing to do, but because diverse teams perform better. Creating a culture in which everyone feels welcome and offering equal opportunities in all aspects of employment and advancement is incredibly important to us. Fair consideration is given to applications from all applicants, including those with disabilities and those over who are over 50 as we are champions of age inclusivity.

We are an official Disability Confident Committed employer and ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible and we will make reasonable adjustments as required.

We are a member of the 30% Club and partner with Women Ahead which offers us a fantastic opportunity to take part in a leading, global, cross-company, leadership mentoring scheme to champion female talent.

We are a signatory of the Armed Services Covenant and have received a Silver Award from the Employer Recognition Scheme. 

To all recruitment agencies: Saga does not accept agency CVs unless specifically engaged on the role by the Talent Acquisition Team. Please do not forward CVs to our recruiters, employees or any other company location. Any engagement with employees or provision of CVs to employees within Saga where you have not engaged with the Talent Acquisition Team will be considered speculative and Saga will not be responsible for any fees related to CVs received in this unsolicited manner.

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