Senior Legal Counsel - Commercial

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Senior Legal Counsel to join a dynamic and highly collaborative legal team. The successful candidate will provide commercially focused legal advice across a broad range of strategic, commercial, and corporate matters while partnering with stakeholders across the organisation.

Reporting into senior leadership, the role requires a proactive legal professional who can effectively manage complex contractual matters, influence key business decisions, mitigate legal risk, and support the delivery of the organisation's wider strategic objectives.

We are recruiting within Manchester and Coventry operating on a hybrid approach with at least 1 day a week in the office.

Our benefits include:

• 28 days holiday a year plus bank holidays and a holiday buy/sell scheme
• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• Generous Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• Extensive wellbeing support
• Personal pension with enhanced contributions
• Life assurance (6 times annual salary)

Find out more about the fantastic benefits of joining Coventry Building Society Group here.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

The successful candidate will be a commercially minded legal professional with the ability to provide clear, practical, and solution-focused advice to colleagues at all levels. They will demonstrate strong alignment with the Group's values and a proven ability to effectively manage competing priorities while delivering high-quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment.

They will possess excellent drafting, research, negotiation, analytical, and influencing skills, alongside the ability to build strong working relationships across teams and stakeholders. A collaborative approach is essential, with the ability to work effectively within the Commercial Legal team, the wider General Counsel Function, and across the broader business.

For this role you’ll need to have:

• Experience within financial services (or with FS clients)
• Strong experience advising on complex commercial, supplier, partner or outsourcing arrangements
• Qualified lawyer with significant relevant post-qualification experience
• Excellent drafting, analytical, research, and negotiation skills
• Experience identifying, assessing and managing legal, regulatory, operational and commercial risks

In 2025, Coventry Building Society purchased The Co-operative Bank. Bringing together our purpose-led building society with the UK’s original ethical bank was the start of an exciting journey.

Trusted by over four million people, we’re a mutually owned business free from shareholders, and with our combined experience of almost 300 years, our ethics and dedication will continue to guide us. Together, we have shared values and an ethical approach towards our members, customers and colleagues.

We’re officially recognised as a ‘Great Place to Work’ and our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and comprehensive support for wellbeing. 

We’re serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability, and sexual orientation and we celebrate diversity. By working together, we know you’ll build more than just a career with us.

Flexibility and why it matters

We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we’ll consider alternative working patterns. Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role.                                                                                                   

Proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer

We’re proud to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As part of the application process, disabled applicants can opt in for the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. If there are ever occasions where it is not practicable to interview all candidates that meet the essential criteria, such as when we receive a high number of applications, we commit to interviewing disabled candidates who best meet the minimum essential and desirable criteria.