Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 9th August
Location: Nottingham
Recruitment Partner:
About the role
A fantastic opportunity for a qualified solicitor to join the Boots Legal & Compliance team as a Dispute Resolution Lawyer, based in Nottingham. As trusted advisors, the Boots Legal Team delivers pragmatic and clear legal solutions in partnership with the business. You will sit within the Healthcare Law, Dispute Resolution and Competition Law team reporting to the Senior Dispute Resolution, Investigations and Healthcare Lawyer. You will be responsible for resolving a broad variety of disputes and providing strategic legal advice to all areas of the business.
The key responsibilities of this role include:
- Managing a varied case load of commercial and consumer claims from pre-action through to litigation and enforcement, taking a risk-based approach.
- Advising the Healthcare teams to help resolve pre-action complaints and claims of a clinical nature.
- Advising the Customer Care team in resolving serious customer complaints and claims.
- Supporting the Finance teams in the recovery of debt.
- Providing litigation advice to the business, and influencing stakeholders to make decisions in order to achieve favourable outcomes.
- Attending Court as a representative of Boots.
- Identifying any litigation trends and working with the business to address them.
- Working with the Senior Dispute Resolution, Investigations and Healthcare Lawyer on larger litigation matters.
What you'll need to have
You should:
- Be a qualified solicitor (NQ to 3 years) with relevant experience.
- Have experience of litigation/dispute resolution within a law firm or in-house, and be able to work in an autonomous way.
- Enjoy working on a wide variety of different types of disputes in a fast-paced environment.
- Be proactive in expanding and developing your legal knowledge to keep up to date.
- Be able to think strategically to support the business and help manage risk.
- Be an excellent communicator both verbally and in writing, and able to build strong relationships with a wide variety of internal and external contacts at all levels.
- Have a passion for working for the UK's number one health and beauty retailer.
Our benefits
- Boots Retirement Savings Plan
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Generous employee discounts
- Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
- Flexible benefits scheme including holiday buying, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and more.
- Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.
We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - find out more at rewards. Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.
Why Boots
At Boots, we foster a working environment where consideration and inclusivity help everyone to be themselves and reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all. As the heart of everything we do at Boots, it's with you, we change for the better.
What's next
Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options during the application process. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.
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