Part of our company culture revolves around giving responsibility and trust to our employees early on, and this role is no exception! You will have support from our Legal team to get you up to speed and teach you most of the relevant expertise. What we expect from you is to have commercial awareness and a solid understanding of UK contract law (as the rest of our team have expertise in the EU).

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Drafting and analysing commercial contracts with our customers, assessing the legal and commercial risks
• Leading contract negotiations with customers
• Cross-functional collaboration (for example with our local Sales or Consultancy teams)
• Conducting ad hoc legal research where required
• Collaborating with our headquarters’ Legal team on global projects
• Globally serving as TOPdesk’s expert in UK-based contract law
• Communicating legal matters in layman’s terms

We are looking for someone to work 3 days a week, although there is the potential to increase this to 4 days a week if in alignment with business needs & candidate preferences.

• Law student at least in your 2nd year of undergraduate studies
• Solid understanding of UK contract law
• Commercial awareness and the ability to apply legal concepts in a commercial context
• Able to communicate effectively and get to the heart of complex issues both orally and in writing
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
• Able to manage competing deadlines
• Capable of working independently and with a team

• Competitive starting salary
• Part-time role of 3 days a week to suit academic/personal pursuits
• An annual training budget equivalent to 10% of your basic salary
• 26 days pro rata of holiday per year plus public holidays & birthday off
• 15 days fully paid sick leave, 5 days paid parental/carer leave, and 2 volunteering days a year!
• Workplace flexibility: a minimum of 2 days a week in the office to suit all employee needs
• Unlimited career support
• An exciting, supportive, international, and multicultural environment
• Great company benefits including team outings and rewards, a generous pension plan, private healthcare, cycle to work scheme, tech scheme, Perkbox membership
• We have foosball, darts, and ping-pong!

The successful candidate must, by the start of the employment, have permission to work in the UK.

At TOPdesk, we’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, ages, identities, religions, disabilities, and with a culturally or linguistically diverse background.

Research shows that, unlike men, women and people from disadvantaged backgrounds are much less likely to apply for a role they don’t meet 100% of the criteria for. If you feel like you meet most but not all the criteria and genuinely have a strong passion for, and desire to learn then we’d be happy to help you acquire those skills at TOPdesk and encourage you to apply.

Please give us some background in your cover letter so we know how to consider your application. We embrace flexibility to allow our people to manage the changing demands of work, personal, and family life.