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Connect to your Industry

Deloitte's legal practice in the UK is part of the global Deloitte Legal network, which has over 2,500 lawyers in more than 85 jurisdictions. This makes Deloitte Legal one of the largest legal businesses in the world with a global footprint that exceeds that of any traditional global law firm.

We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you, please do discuss with us.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, welead the way,serve with integrity,take care of each other,foster inclusion, andcollaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most .

Connect to your opportunity

If you are a talented, entrepreneurial and ambitious lawyer, who sees things differently, Deloitte Legal could be for you. We have built a new kind of law firm - a market-leading legal advisory business with technology at its core - and you can help us to shape it.

Deloitte Legal in the UK brings together over 350 top-flight lawyers, consultants and technology experts. People who understand the implications of digitisation, big data, AI, robotics and platform-based business models in today's world. In addition, because our clients' needs generally span more than one country, our team is part of a global network of more than 2,000 Deloitte Legal professionals who collaborate seamlessly across more than 80 countries worldwide.

Unlike traditional law firms, we can tap into the multidisciplinary expertise of Deloitte to provide holistic legal, tax, risk, financial advisory and other consulting advice to an unmatched list of clients, from listed multinational companies to entrepreneurs and family offices.

Our Commercial Technology team works with clients in sectors as diverse as software and technology services, online content, equipment and telecommunications, building extensive knowledge and insight into the legal and commercial challenges they face. In business sectors that are being transformed by technology, we guide our clients with their technology procurement and deployment. We support them in the development of their online and digital commerce activities and work with supply-side providers to banking, insurance, media, professional services, retail and travel companies as well as to the public sector.

At Deloitte Legal, the Commercial Technology specialists are a vital part of our broader Deloitte Contracts team, which combines legal advisory and negotiating skills with the expertise of contract transformation professionals and operational and commercial managers. The Deloitte Contracts team is led from the UK and also includes a team of over 60 colleagues working from Poland. Whilst our primary focus is advising on "traditional" commercial, technology and outsourcing contracts and related areas across industries, the Commercial Technology group works across Deloitte Contracts to develop end-to-end solutions to contracting challenges which traditional law firms and alternative legal service providers cannot deliver by themselves.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

We are looking to recruit a Managing Associate to help us expand our Commercial Technology team. The successful candidate will work with the partner and directors in the team across the various specialisms and with a particular focus on commercial technology and outsourcing contracting. As such the role will suit someone with 1-2 years' strong commercial and technology contracting experience who is:

• Interested in finding new and innovative solutions to contracting and other legal challenges.
• Looking to gain experience across a wide range of matters, clients and industries.
• Confident in facing new opportunities for learning as technologies expand into new areas.
• Happy to be involved in developing relationships within the broader Deloitte business and with internal and external clients in addition to fee-earning.

The successful candidate will have experience:

• Leading on the drafting and negotiation of commercial, technology and outsourcing contracts (both BPO and ITO), with supervision and support.
• Presenting legal concepts to clients.
• In a leading private practice team or an equivalent in-house team.
• In relation to a wide range of complex technology contracts, including software development, software licensing, systems integration and cloud.
• Acting for both suppliers and customers.
• Delegating to more junior lawyers, trainees and/ or teams of paralegals on large or complex projects.

In addition, we expect our Managing Associates to demonstrate:

• A desire and ability to develop client relationships, build business and the practice.
• A track record for creating engaging external-facing eminence addressing developments in commercial and technology law.
• An enthusiasm for understanding the interaction of technology and the law.
• A high level of client contact and previous responsibility for client matters.
• Excellent people skills and a good, clear communication style.
• A strong knowledge of key areas of commercial and technology law.
• Ability to work effectively in a multinational team-based environment.
• A commitment to regularly update their own technical expertise and to achieve continuous improvement and development.
• The ability to contribute to the general upkeep of the group (e.g. training, precedents, or know-how generally).

Connect to your business - Deloitte Legal

By connecting legal expertise and technological innovation, we're creating a new future for law. We blend great advisory capabilities with the technology, process and change management skills to move from advice to implementation and managing legal operations. We are delivering to legal buyers the Deloitte promise of practical solutions to real business problems. Join us and experience the future of law, today.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"Our ability to seamlessly integrate legal services into broader solutions offered by Deloitte is a differentiator as compared to traditional law firms. Deloitte also has some impressive proprietary technology which we can use to streamline/improve the delivery of legal services. We are ahead of the competition in this regard, including the other Big Four."

- Benjamin, Deloitte Legal

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in London with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Connect to your return to work opportunity

Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?

For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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