Senior Solicitor

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Babcock

We're Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you'll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we're building a future that lasts - not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Provide expert legal guidance that helps shape the future of defence and marine engineering

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Solicitor at our Bristol site.

Location: Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Job Title: Senior Solicitor

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76730

As a Senior Solicitor, you'll provide timely, practical and commercially focused legal advice across a diverse portfolio of business activities. Working closely with senior leaders and key stakeholders, you'll support complex commercial arrangements, regulatory compliance activities, governance matters and strategic projects.

• Providing legal advice and guidance to business teams and executive stakeholders on a broad range of commercial matters.
• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts, collaboration agreements, licences, non-disclosure agreements and strategic framework agreements.
• Supporting regulatory compliance activities across areas including competition law, anti-bribery and international trade requirements.
• Assisting with corporate governance activities, including company secretarial responsibilities and internal compliance matters.
• Supporting mergers, acquisitions and other strategic business transactions when required.