Paralegal

Competitive Salary + Employee Benefits

6 month Fixed-Term Contract

Remote Working - Occasional travel for key meetings (Oxford or Solihull)

Help drive our business forward

A fantastic opportunity for an experienced Paralegal to join our UK in-house Legal team on a 6-month FTC basis and provide support to senior lawyers. The purpose of this position is to enable the team to operate at optimum efficiency and provide high-quality legal support to the business in a busy and thriving environment.

What We Can Offer You

• 33 days’ annual leave, including bank holidays (pro rata)
• The opportunity to buy additional holiday
• Retail discounts that save you money every day
• Gym discounts, cash healthcare plans, and a cycle-to-work scheme
• Car discounts for new and used purchases and servicing
• Flexible pension scheme and Sharesave scheme to grow your savings
• Family-friendly policies that help you spend more time with the people that matter
• A wellbeing programme to support you and your family
• Ongoing recognition from your peers and leadership team
• A community volunteering day
  
  

What You’ll Do Day To Day

• Working with the Legal team on a diverse range of legal areas, including commercial contracts, litigation, corporate, employment, and consumer law.
• Conducting legal research, reviewing, drafting and/ or amending simple legal documents (including NDA’s, supplier contracts, and IT contracts), proof-reading contracts, responding to escalated customer complaints/ correspondence.
• Assisting with litigation matters, reviewing claims and preparing Defences, filing documents at Court, taking Witness Statements, compile litigation bundles. Liaise with Court prior to Trials to ensure necessary paperwork is sent and received.
• Liaising with stakeholders (internal and external) and other support functions daily.
• Support the Legal department with process improvements and maintaining online filing systems.
• Reviewing and monitoring any legislative changes/ updates that may impact the business.
• Such other duties as the team may require from time to time.
  
  

Helpful Skills And Qualifications

Don’t worry about ticking off every single skill here − if you care about delivering great experiences as much as we do, we want to hear from you.

• Previous experience as a Paralegal (and ideally relevant legal studies complete).
• Previous exposure to commercial contracts and litigation is advantageous.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Good organisational skills, ability to efficiently manage own time and prioritise workload
• Attention to detail.
• Proficient in Word/ Outlook and working knowledge of Excel.
• Able to demonstrate agile and flexible working.
• High level of discretion with confidential matters.
  
  

Who We Are

Be part of something big

Group 1 Automotive is on an exciting growth journey. We’re the largest partner in the UK for Mercedes- Benz, Volkswagen and Audi, and second largest for BMW & MINI.

Home to more than 7000 colleagues who are dedicated to providing exceptional customer services, we have 113 dealerships in the UK, representing 21 brands at the forefront of automotive retail.

But you don’t need to love cars to work with us - you just need to share our mission to create outstanding and trusted experiences for our customers, our partners, and our people.

In return, we recognise that the success of our business is because of our fantastic people. Which is why we’re committed to providing fantastic career opportunities, comprehensive training, competitive pay and benefits and full support personally and professionally.