In-house Senior Legal Counsel - Data

About the Role

We are a market leader in our industry, committed to growth, compliance, and strategic expansion. We are looking for an experienced Senior Legal Counsel to join our team and to provide comprehensive legal support to the business.

As our Senior Legal Counsel you will be responsible for providing legal support to AML and its associated companies. You will be responsible for providing commercially focused legal advice across the business with specific accountability for supporting the UK business on Data Protection matters.

Reporting to the Head of Legal Projects & Governance the role will support the delivery of the company's commercial objectives while ensuring that legal and regulatory risks are appropriately identified, managed and mitigated. The successful candidate will combine sound legal judgement and technical expertise with a pragmatic, solutions-oriented approach and the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels. You will provide legal advice across a broad range of matters including data protection, commercial contracts, procurement, healthcare regulation, compliance, corporate governance and risk.

In addition, the role holder will support the DPO to, to ensure compliance with UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018, Freedom of Information requirements, confidentiality obligations and information governance best practice.

Please note that we will be interviewing through the duration of the advert and therefore an early application is advised.

Major Accountabilities

• Provides accurate commercial legal advice to all Commercial and Operational parts of AMG and AML UK business as required.
• Support the Head of Legal Projects & Governance in maintaining and developing the company’s legal and regulatory compliance framework.
• Identify compliance risks and gaps and recommend controls and monitor remediation.
• Advise on compliance with applicable UK data protection and privacy legislation, including the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018.
• Maintain and develop data protection policies, procedures and controls.
• Review data processing agreements, data sharing arrangements and privacy documentation.
• Advise on data protection impact assessments, data breaches and regulatory reporting obligations
• Work with relevant teams to embed effective data governance and privacy-by-design practices
• Monitor legal and regulatory developments and advise on their impact on the business.
• Support compliance reviews, audits and provide appropriate training.
• Support the business in meeting its legal and regulatory obligations arising from its designation as an Operator of Essential Services (OES), including advising on applicable regulatory requirements, maintaining relevant policies and compliance documentation, coordinating engagement with the relevant competent authority, and monitoring compliance with applicable security and incident reporting obligations.
• Provide legal support across acquisitions, disposals, investments and other corporate transactions.
• Coordinate legal due diligence and assess legal, contractual, regulatory and compliance risks.
• Work with internal stakeholders and external advisers to support transaction execution.
• Assist with post-completion integration and the implementation of relevant legal and compliance requirements.
• Draft, review and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements.
• Maintain and create standard template agreements.
• Work with commercial and operational teams to ensure contractual commitments are appropriately assessed, approved and managed.
• Support on strategic projects
• .Identifies material risks and ensures that these are allocated appropriately to protect the business.
• Ensures legal knowledge is up-to-date, particularly within the healthcare sector market and public procurement and is proactive in sharing this with the team and wider business as appropriate.
• Instructs and manages external legal advisers.
• Maintains legal risk registers and support risk management processes
• Provides legal training and awareness programmes for managers and senior leaders.

Required Skills and Experence

• Background: qualified Solicitor in England or Wales.
• Significant post-qualification experience in commercial law, ideally within an in-house legal team in the healthcare, life sciences or data technology sector.
• Extensive working knowledge of Data Protection and associated policies and implementation within a business.
• Experience in the development and implementation of compliance frameworks.
• Experience of healthcare technology, AI governance and digital health services.
• Ability to identify and assess legal risks and recommend proportionate, commercially practical solutions.
• Self-starter, with strong work ethic.
• Extremely commercial, with ability to add real value to the business.
• Strong legal drafting, negotiation, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong stakeholder management skills including the ability to influence and challenge constructively.
• Ability to manage competing priorities independently and deliver high quality work to tight deadlines
• Experience of litigation and disputes.
• IT literate.

Desirable

• Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions or private equity-backed organisations.
• Experience supporting international operations or cross-border transactions
• Experience of deploying AI solutions

About Alliance Medical

Alliance Medical are Europe’s leading independent provider of imaging services.

We combine service excellence and innovative imaging technologies to improve patient care and support NHS and independent organisations with their ongoing imaging requirements. Our approach has delivered consistent company growth for more than 30 years.

We operate a robust pre-employment screening process for all roles which includes proof of professional registration and qualifications, DBS checking and occupational health assessments.

We live by our company values to ensure the highest level of patient care:

Our Values

Leaders, managers, and supervisors have a particular responsibility to be role models in terms of how they demonstrate these values themselves and how they engage their teams to work in this way.

Collaboration:

We work together and in partnership for all our patients. We respect expertise and combine it to achieve more.

Excellence:

We never compromise. We strive to deliver the very best in everything we do to ensure the highest quality of care. We treat our patients and each other with compassion, dignity and respect.

Learning:

Knowledge and understanding comes from learning. At Alliance Medical we are committed to ensuring that each and every one of us keeps on learning and that we continuously look for improved ways of working.

Efficiency:

Efficiency in healthcare means more patients get better care. We constantly seek new ways to use the scarce resource of healthcare more intelligently so that more people can live longer, fuller lives.

Openness:

We act with transparency and honesty in everything we do, where staff are encouraged to speak up to ensure a safe and secure environment for our patients.