Contracts and Procurement Lawyer

Job Summary

Job reference - orbis/TP/345049/45538

Positions available - 1

Working hours 37

Salary £39,862-£51,356 (plus £8,000 market supplement)

Closing date 30 October 2025

Job category - Legal

Organisation - Brighton & Hove City Council

Job introduction

Are you a talented barrister, solicitor or legal executive (qualified in England and Wales) who is interested in commercial contracts and procurement work in a local government setting? Come and join our award-winning Legal Services team by the sea!

You will have a real impact providing legal solution-focused advice and guidance relating to commercial contracts and at all stages of the procurement process and managing your own varied case load of contracts and procurement work. Our team works on many exciting projects. Examples of work we have carried out recently include acting on a contract to enable the City to host this year’s Women’s Rugby World Cup tournament, providing commercial law support to a range of historic building restoration projects, acting on construction projects for new social housing regeneration schemes, acting on a contract for a city-wide EV chargers scheme and contracts for a flood and coastal risk management scheme.

Interview date: w/c 10 November 2025 Please contact [email protected] if you would like to discuss this role.

About The Role

We are looking to recruit a qualified lawyer with relevant contracts and procurement experience to support this area of work, working as part of a supportive and dynamic Contracts and Procurement team. Excellent client care, communication skills, a positive attitude and a willingness to develop in the role are essential.

The Council is an existing Unitary Authority and the Legal Services team is recognised by Lexcel as an excellent, well-led service. We have had many award successes, including winning the 2024 LLG Legal Team of the year.

We can offer you a comprehensive benefits package including flexible working arrangements, a local government pension, and employee discount benefits.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. We take diversity and inclusivity seriously and are looking to build a service which reflects the community which we represent. We are committed to attracting, retaining and developing our employees. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates.

Please read our Apply for a job at the council pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you’ve submitted your application and at interview.

As part of your application, you will need to upload your CV and answers to some shortlisting questions. Your answers to the shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as it will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here (CV guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) and (Shortlisting guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.

Additional Information

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us

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Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to

developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).

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