Job Role: Senior Property Solicitor - Team Leader
Job Location: Hybrid (Minimum 2 days per week in Bedford)
Salary: £53,578
Working period: Monday - Friday
Working Hours: 9:00 - 17:00
Job Type: Permanent
Fox Morris Group, a preferred supplier to numerous local and national organisations, is thrilled to represent a well-established authority recruiting for a Senior Property Lawyer to lead their team of 4.
This senior role focuses on complex property transactions, team leadership, and strategic management of the Council's property portfolio to ensure a high standard of legal services.
You will be expected to provide a high standard of work to the role.
Your role will / may also include working with:
- Team Management: Oversee the daily management of four team members, ensuring efficient workflow and quality output.
- Complex Property Matters: Lead high-level property transactions and advise on complex areas of commercial property law.
- Income Generation: Identify and leverage opportunities to recover legal costs from third parties, aligning with Council income targets.
- Documentation: Handle development projects, landlord and tenant law, property disposals and acquisitions, and high-level commercial conveyancing, including various statutory and non-statutory agreements**.**
Benefits:
- Competitive Pension Scheme
- Flexible Working Options
- Health and Wellbeing Support
- Cycle to Work Scheme
Minimum Requirements for the Role
- Qualifications: Admitted Solicitor or Barrister (England and Wales) with a current Practising Certificate, or Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives.
- Experience: Significant post-qualification experience in commercial property law, ideally within the public sector, with a record of managing high-stakes property matters.
- Management Skills: Proven managerial experience, with an ability to lead, allocate workloads, and meet deadlines.