Senior Legal Advisor - Corporate/ General

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Senior Legal Advisor – Corporate/ General

Angel Court, London (or able to travel to London)

Hybrid Working Options

Full time (35hrs pw)

Competitive Salary (dependent on experience) + Car Allowance + Excellent Benefits

We consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours and working patterns.

We make health happen

Working in our Group function you’ll play a key part in helping our customer facing colleagues deliver exceptional standards of customer service and patient care not just in the UK but around the globe. 

The Senior Legal Advisor will be part of the Group legal team accountable for providing legal advice to underpin delivery of Bupa’s business strategy and purpose. The Group team:

• Maintains the legal risk management framework and governance at enterprise level
• Partners other functional team (known as Bupa’s “global functions”), enabling achievement of their objectives and accountabilities
• Partners with Bupa’s global legal community to deliver the objectives of Bupa’s global Legal function, in support of Bupa’s strategic framework

You’ll help us make health happen by:

• Managed relationships with senior stakeholders, with the ability to syndicate ideas, build consensus and keep stakeholders informed
• Worked in matrix roles with a high degree of cross-functional dependency, particularly interaction on regulatory compliance and reputational risk issues
• Experience of creating and implementing policies and procedures in a global context, and creating and maintain reporting and governance frameworks to support and coordinate business-level inputs
• Good experience of advising on matters and transactions with a strong international dimension to them, for example, cross border M&A transactions
• Broad company and commercial experience including experience in one or more of corporate, commercial contracting, disputes, brand protection or regulatory experience

Key Skills needed for this role:

• Providing professional, strategic and operational legal advice and assistance to manage and mitigate legal risks;
• Developing and implementing policies and processes, in order to ensure compliance and mitigate legal risks;
• Working with the global functions to ensure a positive legal risk and governance culture is enabled and embedded;
• Working alongside other members of the wider businesses and legal team to assess, evaluate and undertake potential business development activities e.g. strategic partnerships, transactions and complex commercial contracting structures;
• Providing an escalation point for complex technical queries and ensuring their effective and commercially sound resolution

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Annual performance-based bonus - Management Bonus Scheme
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• Various other benefits and online discounts

Bupa

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve.  That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them. #LI-XC1

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