PwC Legal Procurement Manager - Flexible Work Opt

Title: PwC Legal, Public Procurement Manager
Location: London, Birmingham, Manchester or Leeds - flexible options
Salary: Competitive with benefits
Flexible Working Options: PwC is open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate

We&rsquore looking for a qualified lawyer with experience in public procurement law as well as general public sector commercial work to help develop the practice as a Public Procurement Manager with PwC Legal. PwC Legal LLP is an independent member of the PwC international network of firms. Based in London, we have more than 20 partners and employ over 180 people. As well as project-based, specialist legal advice, we offer our clients ongoing general counsel support. We have access to legal expertise in over 80 countries.

Our Public Sector Legal practice is a new and developing area of our business. We are focussing on delivery of legal services into the public sector as part of integrated multi-disciplinary teams with PwC. Working closely with PwC consulting and assurance teams, projects include commercial contract efficiency reviews, the spin out of public functions, business function redesign and strategic public procurement advice, reviews and support across central government and health markets within the UK and overseas. Our role within a multidisciplinary often requires us to beyond the traditional confines of legal advice.

About the role
Like the rest of our lawyers, we expect the person in this role will enjoy an interesting and challenging workload.   A large proportion of our work is alongside non-lawyers in PwC.  Not only does this give us access to projects that other law firms don't see, but it has helped our lawyers to develop a deeper understanding of business issues and the commercial context for our advice.  Unquestionably, PwC is one of the best known businesses in the world and working with them gives us access to some of the most interesting and challenging projects across Government and the public sector.

Our team is a specialist unit within a wider commercial team of (currently) 10 lawyers who provide general commercial contract support on public sector projects.  Our public sector team also leads teams of lawyers from across the firm to advise on such projects as the spin out of central and local government functions and assets the restructuring of a national healthcare system and the review of a central government commercial and procurement functions.

We are already successfully going to market as part of a multidisciplinary team with PwC and we believe there are significant opportunities to increase the size of the public sector practice.  The successful candidate will help us to explore these further opportunities and build that larger practice, as well as advising on work won.  

Specifically, the role is likely to include:

Strategic public procurement advice 
Review of client procurement functions
Reviewing and advising upon a wide range of public sector commercial contracts
Responding to and participating in competitive tender processes
Undertaking business development and seeking new work opportunities, including taking part in proposal processes for our own services

The person will work closely with other members of the Commercial team and the rest of PwC Legal.  Each member of the team is encouraged to develop relationships with the professionals in PwC with whom we work on a daily basis.  Every member of staff also has a people manager appointed for them, usually from outside their immediate team, whose job it is to coach and mentor them, as well as review their performance.

Additional information

The successful candidate with need to work closely with the existing team in London. Subject to this, however, we are happy for the successful candidate to be based in our London, Birmingham, Manchester or Leeds office. 

Requirements

Essential skills:

Qualified solicitor in England & Wales or equivalent common law jurisdiction
Excellent academic background
Significant public procurement law experience
Strong commercial contract drafting and analytical skills
6 PQE
An interest in working in a variety of public sector markets
Business development experience
Supervising junior lawyers

Desirable skills:

Experience of working with consultants