Job title: Legal Counsel

Company: Aviva

Job description: Legal Counsel

Norwich

Salary Circa £42,000

We have an opportunity for a tenacious and career driven individual to join our UK General Insurance (UKGI) legal team in Norwich. This is an excellent job for a Lawyer with a litigation or contacts background who is looking to make the move inhouse. We would also consider a newly qualified lawyer who is looking to kick start their career working in-house for one of the UK’s largest Insurance, wealth Management and Retirement businesses!

A bit about the job:

This role will sits within our Health legal team and supports Aviva’s UK Health business on a wide variety of matters, including: the full suite of UK health insurance and non-insurance products & propositions, their distribution, and any contentious issues, as well as contract negotiation, and general legal advice on day-to-day issues and queries that arise.

In this role, you will gain broad legal and commercial experience, working with other colleagues in the UKGI legal team, and wider UK legal function. You’ll become a trusted adviser with key business partners, providing high quality, pragmatic legal advice across a broad range of contracts, projects, products and propositions as well as identifying and mitigating legal risks and raising key risks and issues to the Senior Lawyers, Director of Legal or General Counsel of UKI, as appropriate.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Qualified or newly qualified lawyer
• Solid understanding and experience in Contract Law is essential
• Relevant in-house and/or private practice experience, ideally (but not essential) and a familiarity with regulations
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills, alongside a commercial acumen and pragmatic mindset, and strong analytical skills
• A high degree of flexibility and self-motivation – enjoys working in fast paced and dynamic environment, ability to assess workload and prioritise effectively

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose – with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Starting salary Circa £42,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity – 10% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.
• Generous pension scheme – Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Make your money go further – Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
• Make a difference, be part of our

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and – we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way. So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if you’re in a job share just apply as a pair.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working –spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week – combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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Expected salary:

Location: Norwich

Job date: Sat, 30 Sep 2023 07:27:44 GMT

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