Lawyer - Group Legal, Group Operations & Commercial Legal; FTC

Position: Lawyer - Group Legal, Group Operations & Commercial Legal (FTC until 30/09/2026)

End Date

Friday 16 January 2026

Salary Range

£87,552 - £97,280

We support flexible working –  for more information on flexible working options Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

JOB TITLE:

Lawyer - Group Legal, Group Operations & Commercial Legal (FTC until 30/09/2026) SALARY: £87,552 - £97,280 LOCATION(S):
Edinburgh, Chester, Halifax, Leeds, Bristol & Newport

HOURS:

Full Time WORKING PATTERN:
Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. About this opportunity

This isn’t just a legal job – it’s a chance to work alongside forward-thinking colleagues, help drive transformation and make a real impact in an organisation providing banking services to customers and businesses across the UK.

This role is for a commercial lawyer to join the Group Operations & Commercial Legal team as a fixed term employee until 30th September 2026.

We’re a collaborative, enthusiastic and development-focused team which strives to provide excellent inhouse legal support and embrace technology to deliver legal services in the most effective way for our stakeholders.

The team delivers legal support across the organisation working alongside the Group Chief Operating Office, our People & Places team as well as customer facing business areas across all Lloyds Banking Group brands. The work is varied, fast paced and will provide phenomenal insight into the operations, technology and strategy of the Group!

There’s lots of opportunities to get involved with innovative and groundbreaking work such as Fin Tech deals to grow our services, supporting cyber security initiatives to keep customers safe and working with third party suppliers to deliver tech transformation. We lead on legal advice relating to material procurement arrangements to ensure we achieve robust terms with the Group’s suppliers and comply with our legal and regulatory requirements.

Day to day you’ll:

• Negotiate, draft and advise on a variety of Group-wide supplier contracts for both IT (including SaaS, Cloud and AI solutions) and operational services (such as business process outsources or professional services)

• Help the business resolve performance or other contractual issues arising from ongoing supplier relationships including resolving contentious matters

• Ensure projects align with regulatory requirements and help with horizon scanning

• Identify key legal risks, advise on their implications for the Group and supporting the business by providing clear, pragmatic, solution-focused advice

• Support the team’s initiatives to provide training to our internal business partners on relevant legal topics

• Join the team’s helpline service providing stakeholders with quick and easy access to legal support for ad hoc ‘phone a friend’ queries

• Support the effective selection and management of external legal counsel.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you’ll need

• Must be a fully qualified lawyer with a current practising certificate for a UK jurisdiction or equivalent legal qualification.

• Experience of negotiating commercial contracts, outsourcing arrangements and technology agreements gained either in an established in-house legal team or a leading private practice firm.

• Strong commercial awareness together with a customer-focussed approach.

• Excellent influencing and communication skills together with a pro-active approach as you’ll be required to interact with executives, deliver messages in a cohesive and simple way and build your internal network with senior leaders.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Experience advising clients from the financial services sector and an awareness of the regulatory requirements for outsourcing in this sector.

About working for us

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