Paralegal (In-house)
£24,000 plus excellent benefits (Work Level 6B)
Manchester city centre, M44FW – hybrid working between home and the office

We’re looking for a paralegal to join our Co-op Group in-house legal team.

In this role you’ll have the exciting opportunity to work across a wide variety of legal work in disputes, property, commercial, and employment, supporting colleagues in the wider legal team as well as leading on your own projects. We’ll look to you to build positive relationships with colleagues across the business to provide legal advice alongside solicitors in the team. This is a fantastic chance to develop your legal skills across a broad range of specialisms whilst benefiting from expert mentorship and support.

What you’ll do

• manage your own workload and provide legal advice to a variety of business areas and on a wide range of legal issues
• review, draft and negotiate a wide variety of contracts and advise internal partners on legal risk, receiving mentorship of solicitor colleagues
• identify legal issues and collaborate with our in-house legal specialists
• support solicitors and other paralegals on larger projects and assignments
• assist with legal know-how and horizon scanning and create guidance documents/training materials for other teams in the Co-op
• undertake legal research on a broad range of topics
• get involved in Co-op community initiatives, events, and activities

This role would suit people who have

• a law degree or graduate diploma in law
• the ability to demonstrate commercial awareness and understand a variety of business requirements
• good relationship-building skills, with the ability to collaborate with colleagues across the business
• strong prioritisation and organisational skills
• a proactive approach with a passion for learning

Why Co-op?

Here you’ll do work that matters. We’re a commercial organisation with a purpose beyond profit, you’ll have an opportunity to help us build a stronger Co-op and stronger communities. You’ll also get a package that includes:
• competitive salary
• coaching, training and support to help you develop
• pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• annual incentive scheme
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 in line with service) plus bank holidays
• discounts on Co-op products and services
• Wagestream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it

Building an inclusive work environment

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. We want to build inclusive work environments, where our colleagues have equal opportunities to reach their full potential. We celebrate our differences, and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting the communities they serve.

If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.