Company:

Marsh




Description:



An exciting opportunity has come up within the
Marsh Legal team for a
Legal Contract Specialist looking to develop their career within a leading professional services firm. This role will be based at our
Belfast office and is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working at least three days a week in the office.



You would work closely with the business and Marsh McLennan Legal team on day-to-day contractual and strategic administration matters.




We will count on you to:

• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating client agreements and ancillary legal documentation.


• Carrying out legal research and providing legal updates to the team.


• Developing internal know-how and precedents for use, including maintaining template agreements and implementing process developments.


• Supporting the wider Legal team with internal projects and various contractual matters.


• Developing and assisting with internal legal training and business updates.

What you need to have:

• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.


• Document drafting and negotiation skills.


• Strong commercial acumen with an ability to deliver clear and pragmatic solutions.


• Previous experience working in a fast-paced environment, manging multiple deadlines and tasks.


• Effectively able to prioritise work by understanding competing demands and making appropriate judgments regarding relative importance.


• Excellent communication skills with the ability to manage expectations well.


• Confidently able to communicate with various stakeholders both internally and externally.


• Experience working with data protection legislation and negotiating DPAs a plus.


• Maintain up-to-date legal knowledge to ensure compliance with relevant policies and legislation.


• Able to take initiative, is proactive and confidently able to take ownership of matters and develop self.


• A team player that offers to help colleagues and shares workload.


• Understand the various business offerings within the company.


• IT skills - experience with Microsoft Office. Experience with legal tools a bonus.


• Enthusiastic and looking to develop a long-term career as a commercial/contracts paralegal.


• Ideally a minimum of 1-2 years' experience working in similar role.


• LLB or equivalent legal qualification.

Why join our team:

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.


• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.


• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marsh.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.



Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, civil partnership status, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments in accordance with applicable law to any candidate with a disability to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. If you have a disability that may require reasonable adjustments, please contact us at reasonableaccommodations@marsh.com.



Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one "anchor day" per week on which their full team will be together in person.