Group Legal Counsel

As Group Legal Counsel at Linesight, (Maternity Cover – 12 mths) you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.

We are seeking an experienced legal professional to step into the role of Group General Counsel on a maternity cover basis. This is a strategic leadership position responsible for overseeing all legal aspects of the business globally, ensuring compliance, mitigating risk, and advising senior leadership on legal matters.

In this role you will:

• Provide strategic legal advice to the executive team and board on corporate, commercial, regulatory, and compliance matters.
• Lead and manage the global legal function, including external counsel relationships.
• Oversee legal aspects of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and other strategic transactions.
• Ensure compliance with international laws and regulations across jurisdictions
• Draft, review, and negotiate high-value contracts and agreements.
• Advise on employment law, data protection, intellectual property, and dispute resolution.
• Support governance and company secretarial duties, including board meetings and filings.
• Monitor legislative changes and assess their impact on the business.

We would love to hear from you if you:

• Qualified solicitor or barrister with a minimum of 10 years' post-qualification experience.
• Proven track record as General Counsel or in a senior legal leadership role within a multinational or consultancy environment.
• Strong knowledge of corporate, commercial, and regulatory law.
• Experience managing legal teams and working with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and leadership skills.
• Ability to operate with discretion, integrity, and sound judgment.
• Beneficial to have experience in the construction, engineering, or consultancy sectors.
• Familiarity with international legal frameworks and multi-jurisdictional operations.
• Strategic thinker with a proactive approach to risk management and compliance.

All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we're not like the others. We're different. It's our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world's most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment.We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you