Join us as a Legal Counsel
- This is an excellent opportunity to join us as a Legal Counsel, where you’ll deliver our legal strategy as part of a dynamic, innovative legal team
- Your role will sit within Outsourcing, Technology and Intellectual Property, so we’ll need you to have an understanding of associated legal issues
- This role offers the advantage of a varied and extensive breadth of work, where you’ll find solutions to challenges on a wide range of matters
- In this hybrid role, you'll spend a minimum of two days every week working from our Edinburgh office
What you'll do
We’re looking for a Legal Counsel with outsourcing and technology law experience. You’ll work closely with stakeholders and legal colleagues to ensure the timely, effective and efficient delivery of all issues, projects and initiatives.
Additionally, you’ll be:
- Making sure that legal advice is readily understandable to non-lawyers and delivered within relevant timescales while you manage and minimise legal risks
- Managing, influencing and advising senior stakeholders on transactions and initiatives across the Bank
- Leveraging AI tools, design thinking techniques and demonstrating a curious mindset to provide legal services in an innovative and customer-centric way
The skills you'll need
To join us in this role, you’ll need to be a qualified solicitor with experience of providing legal and commercial advice in relation to technology, transactions and projects either as part of an in-house team or at a leading law firm. You’ll be able to draw on your experience of working with law firms and other professional advisers and have knowledge of current legal issues facing banks and our business area.
You’ll also demonstrate:
- Strong legal skills and in particular, expertise in outsourcing, ideally in the financial services industry
- An understanding of the key legal risks of emerging technologies
- The ability to build rapport and establish strong relationships with colleagues up to senior executive level as well as external professional contacts
- An innovative mindset, with an interest in delivering legal services in an agile, future-focused way
- The ability to keep up to date with and share relevant legal and market developments
- Good communication skills and the ability to establish and maintain strong relationships within your business area and across the bank
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
Job Posting Closing Date is not yet published.Ways of Working:HybridSkills Required
- Qualified solicitor
- Experience in outsourcing and technology law
- Experience providing legal and commercial advice on technology, transactions, and projects
- Experience working in-house or at a leading law firm
- Experience working with law firms and other professional advisers
- Knowledge of current legal issues facing banks and the relevant business area
- Strong legal skills and expertise in outsourcing
- Experience in the financial services industry
- Understanding of legal risks associated with emerging technologies
- Ability to advise and build relationships with senior executives and external professional contacts
- Innovative, agile, and future-focused mindset
- Ability to stay current with and share legal and market developments
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills
NatWest Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible ValueAccount structure with pension and benefit funding allows tailoring of health, protection, lifestyle, and savings options, with unused amounts typically paid as cash. This flexibility supports personalisation of coverage, particularly in Great Britain where the framework is most detailed.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded pension contributions are provided on top of salary in Great Britain, alongside automatic retirement enrollment and share/save programs. This creates structured long‑term wealth support as part of total reward.
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Parental & Family Support — UK policies outline extended maternity, adoption and equal partner leave on full pay with a phased return, plus paid neonatal care leave. These provisions are positioned as market‑leading and complement broader flexibility resources.
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What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
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