Our Commercial team in Milton Keynes is hiring at Associate level upwards (3yr PQE +) and we would be delighted to hear from you if you’re a commercial lawyer with a particular passion for Tech and IT.
As national leaders in Commercial and TMT – we can offer you the combination of top quality work in a positive and supportive environment – partnering with our clients to achieve their commercial objectives and developing your skills and relationships in the meantime.
What else do you need to know about us? We’re an innovative practice, constantly evolving - designing award winning creative platforms to deliver smarter, faster, better for our clients. We want to hear ideas from all corners of our team and we encourage collaborative endeavour alongside personal career progression. We are looking to hire at Associate, Senior Associate or Principal Associate level and irrespective of entry level, you’ll have the framework to advance once you’re here.
If you join us you will undertake a wide variety of interesting and stimulating TMT and Commercial work, much of which is cutting edge involving advising clients on exciting and novel projects. You may get the opportunity to complete a secondment in-house for one of our valued clients. We can assure you that you will get first class experience, be front and centre of client relationships and be encouraged to follow your own interests.
Although recruiting to the MK team we can be flexible about where we hire within our national network and location shouldn’t stand in the way of hiring you if you’re right for our team. Let us know your preference for office base if you’re interested in working with us and we can discuss this as part of your application.
The team and wider firm
As a member of our 90 strong Commercial practice you would work with colleagues across our national network located in 9 of our 13 offices.
Our commercial team in Milton Keynes is industrious and high-performing. It provides the full range of commercial contract and tech support to a client portfolio that consists almost exclusively of global brands and FTSE 250 businesses.
The team works across a number of sectors with a particular focus on the automotive, retail and tech industries. Our book of clients includes in excess of 20 automotive brands including Volkswagen Group, Mercedes-Benz and Peugeot Citroen and the team is regularly involved in cutting edge commercial contract and tech projects including major business process and technology outsourcings. We work very closely with our clients and are often viewed as an extension of their businesses.
Our brand new flagship office in MK boasts market leading facilities, was specifically designed as “an office of the future” and provides a fantastic working environment in keeping with our forward thinking, collaborative, agile set-up.
As a firm we place a lot of belief in culture and community, and genuinely believe we have something different to offer you at Shoosmiths. This is reflected in everything we say and do from our use of technology to enable effective cross-office working, to the team spirit and culture and our commitment to environmental responsibility and social mobility. If you have any queries about working at Shoosmiths or this role – we’d be delighted to have a discussion in confidence so please contact Rachel Charlton in our Recruitment Team (Rachel.charlton@shoosmiths.co.uk).
We are a values-driven business – our values are at the core of the firm and we evaluate how we behave in accordance with these values through a competency framework. This role is considered to be at competency Level 2 upwards in our internal framework, depending on experience. |