An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced Legal Counsel to join a leading organisation within the facilities and business services sector working two office days onsite in North Dublin. Reporting to the General Counsel, this role offers the chance to provide strategic legal advice and hands-on support across a diverse and fast-paced business.
The Role
As Legal Counsel, you will be a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, delivering commercially focused legal guidance that supports operational efficiency and strategic growth. You'll work across multiple business units, ensuring compliance, mitigating risk, and contributing to the development of effective legal and governance frameworks.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide accurate, timely, and commercially driven legal advice across all areas of the business.
- Draft, review, and negotiate key customer and supplier contracts.
- Maintain and update standard legal templates, documents, and policies.
- Implement and oversee robust procedures for contract approval and execution.
- Advise on contentious commercial and employment matters.
- Work with the Compliance team to identify, manage, and document legal risks.
- Lead initiatives to enhance legal processes and integrate new technologies.
- Deliver legal training and guidance to internal teams.
- Advise on corporate governance and company secretarial matters.
- Partner with senior leaders across operations, HR, finance, and business development on both contentious and non-contentious legal issues.
About You
- Qualified lawyer with solid in-house experience (experience within facilities management, outsourcing, or a related commercial environment is advantageous).
- Broad knowledge across commercial contracts, employment law, corporate governance, company secretarial, and property law (including landlord and tenant matters).
- Commercially astute, pragmatic, and solutions-focused.
- Strong communicator with the ability to present complex legal information clearly and concisely.
- Proactive, organised, and comfortable managing a varied workload in a fast-moving environment.
