Legal Counsel

Department: Legal Employment Type: Permanent Location: Cardiff, UK Reporting To: General Counsel Description At Veriforce, we help companies in high-risk industries keep their people, worksites, and supply chains safe and compliant. As a global leader in contractor and supply chain risk management, our SaaS platform simplifies contractor onboarding, credentialing, and compliance while providing powerful analytics and insights. Beyond software, we offer expert support, training, and consulting so our clients can operate with confidence. Together, we’re making workplaces safer every day. The Legal Counsel will provide reliable, accurate, and commercially focused legal advice to the Veriforce Group of companies. The Legal Counsel will support the General Counsel to ensure that a first-class, solutions-orientated legal service is provided to support all business units. What that means day to day

• Advise the Group on legal matters, with a particular emphasis on commercial contracts.
• Engage with the business units and group support functions to build credibility and trust, whilst supporting them in addressing legal implications and compliance issues.
• Negotiate and draft a wide range of commercial contracts and NDAs.
• Support with Company Secretarial matters including managing the group structure, statutory filing, investor and board support.
• Support the General Counsel with ensuring GDPR / Privacy law compliance and ad-hoc projects.
• Assist with the management of the IP, domains and trademark registrations of the Group as well as addressing any related contentious issues as they arise.
• Support the General Counsel on resolving legal issues that face the business from time to time.
• General legal research and legal administrative duties as required.
• Mitigate legal risk across the Group through clear, commercially balanced advice
• Take a pragmatic, solutions-focused approach to resolving legal issues
• Confidently challenge and influence stakeholders on legal and commercial risk
• Produce clear, robust contracts with appropriate protections for the business
• Demonstrate strong commercial awareness, considering wider business impact
• Build credible, trusted relationships across the Group
• Effectively manage a high-volume workload, prioritising and meeting deadlines
• Communicate clearly and effectively with a range of stakeholders
• Maintain a high level of accuracy and attention to detail

What you’ll need to be successful

• Qualified solicitor with experience in commercial law (minimum 3 years PQE)
• Strong experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts
• Ability to provide clear, pragmatic, and commercially focused legal advice
• Confident building relationships and influencing stakeholders across the business
• Strong understanding of legal risk and how to balance this with business objectives
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex legal matters
• Highly organised, with the ability to manage a varied workload and competing priorities
• Strong attention to detail and a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment

What you'll get in return Personal Health & Wellbeing / Benefits We have a hybrid workplace policy, where you will work from the office 3 days per week. We want you to be able to do your best work here. We emphasize providing many ways to support our team to do their best work and below are some of the perks and benefits we offer: 🍼 Enhanced Parental Leave 🌴Generous annual leave 🏥 Healthcare Plan 💟 Annual Giving Day – an extra day to give back to yourself or your community 🚲 Cycle-to-work Scheme Future Planning💰Pension scheme with employer contributions 🧬 Life Assurance – 3X base salary 💸 Rewards Program – access to discounts and cashback 🏫 LinkedIn Learning License for upskilling & development Interested but don’t feel you meet all the requirements? Our recruitment team assesses and reviews all applications against the role and business needs. We believe in people having transferable and soft skills and want you to know that we do consider where an individual might not meet all the criteria, but have the aptitude and capability, nonetheless. Our priority is to ensure we set people up for success. We will make a final call based on our determining whether we can offer the necessary support to upskill or provide the developmental support needed for you to get the best out of this opportunity with us! Bring Your Whole Self To Work. We are proudly an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to ensuring that no candidate is discriminated against because of gender identity and expression, race, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, colour, region, creed, national origin, or sex. We are dedicated to growing a diverse team while continuing to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels safe and empowered to be themselves. What You Can Expect If You Apply

• A response to your application within 15 working days
• An interview process consisting of:

• An initial discovery call with the recruiter
• A first stage interview via Microsoft Teams
• Additional interview (likely face to face) with the stakeholders you’ll be working with closely in the role

We’re keen to ensure our hiring process allows you to be at your best, so if you need us to make any adjustments, please just let us know.