Overview
Legal Counsel – Warrington
At NTS, our Legal Team is high-performing, high-profile, and highly trusted. We’re the advisors who help the NTS Executive, Board, and businesses make confident decisions. Our mission?
- Support revenue growth
- Find pragmatic solutions to complex issues
- Provide constructive challenge to protect stakeholders
As Legal Counsel, you’ll play a key role in managing legal risk and delivering advice that’s timely, practical, and commercially smart – enabling NTS to achieve its mission with minimal legal risk.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Keep Leadership Informed: Ensure GC/AGC/SC have everything they need to advise the Board and stakeholders.
- Be a Role Model: Foster a resilient, collaborative, and constructive team culture.
- Partner with the Business: Build strong relationships across NTS to understand priorities and deliver proactive legal support.
- Advise & Assure: Provide legal advice on projects, transactions, and operational activities.
- Shape Deals: Draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial agreements.
- Governance & Compliance: Enforce corporate governance and compliance policies.
- Dispute Oversight: Manage litigation and disputes effectively.
- Lead Projects: Take ownership of legal projects and transactions.
- Manage External Counsel: Oversee law firms and budgets across jurisdictions.
- Support Leadership: Act as delegate for AGC/SLC on complex matters.
- Templates & Tools: Develop and maintain contract templates.
- Risk Reduction: Drive initiatives to reduce legal risk and improve operations.
- Collaborate Across NDA Group: Build relationships and contribute to NDA Legal Working Groups.
- Educate & Empower: Deliver training, presentations, and write articles on legal developments.
- Represent NTS: At forums, with partners, customers, and suppliers.
- Continuous Improvement: Seek better ways of working and recommend changes.
- Advise Broadly: Cover areas such as litigation, employment, safety, environment, regulatory enforcement, safeguards, transport, nuclear law, insurance, subsidy control, IP, compliance, procurement, real estate, technology transfer, and collaborations.
What We’re Looking For
- Qualified Lawyer (Solicitor, Barrister, or Chartered Legal Executive) eligible to practice in England/Wales.
- Minimum 4 years PQE.
- Strong experience in commercial law and contract negotiation (in-house experience is a plus).
- Knowledge of public procurement law desirable.
- Ability to advise across other areas (competition law, IP, employment, etc.).
- Skilled negotiator with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- High integrity, adaptable, resilient, and solutions-focused.
- Technically excellent, commercially aware, and pragmatic.
- Flexible approach to working hours to meet business needs.
You’ll Love This Role If You…
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment where Freedom, Helpfulness, and Drive are more than words – they’re how we work.
- Enjoy variety – from litigation oversight to corporate transactions, IP, compliance, and more.
- Want to be part of a team that’s collaborative, constructive, and always striving for better.
What’s in It for You?
- Work on high-profile projects that make a real difference.
- Opportunities to lead initiatives, influence strategy, and grow your expertise.
- A supportive team culture that values your ideas and encourages innovation.
Dimensions
- Employee base: circa 700
- Direct Reports: None
- Internal: NTS Legal Team, other NTS teams
- External: NDA Group Legal teams, external law firms
Our Culture Principles
- Freedom – Create an environment where our people have the freedom to perform.
- Helpfulness – Work together to help each other and our customers.
- Drive – Be confident, curious, and innovative.
Ready to make an impact? Join us and help shape the future of NTS.
The company
We are the leading global provider of safe, secure and reliable nuclear transport solutions that make the world safer and more sustainable.
As part of the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, we support the largest environmental restoration programme in Europe, and we use our specialist transport and logistics expertise to help customers and partners around the world solve their own complex challenges.
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