Senior Commercial Lawyer
| Posting date: | 24 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 August 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester, M1 3BG |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75719290 |
Summary
Join a Legal Team Shaping the Future of Greater Manchester!
Are you looking for a role where your legal expertise fuels real change? As part of our dynamic, fast-paced legal team, you’ll be at the heart of Greater Manchester’s bold vision: driving forward transformative projects that improve lives, empower communities, and build a fairer, greener, and more prosperous city region. This is more than legal work; it’s your chance to help shape the future of one of the UK’s most ambitious and forward-thinking regions.
Your Role:
You will be joining our large, friendly and supportive in-house Legal team who cover a number of different areas of expertise. You will provide legal services to the organisation in accordance with policy and organisational requirements, ensuring that the risk and exposure of the organisation is minimised. You will have full autonomy to lead your own caseload and manage relationships with internal clients and any external support required.
As a Senior lawyer, you will have a background of working on significant multi-disciplined projects and will need a good team-working ethos and effective communication skills. You will need a wealth of procurement law experience with a background in procuring and advising under both PCR and UCR, as well as the Procurement Act 2023, commenting on procurement strategy and risks, drafting complex contracts, advising on contract disputes: demonstrating your expertise, knowledge and skills and applying these to complex and high value public procurements and supplier contracts. An understanding of the Bus Franchising statutory regime would be beneficial but not essential, although you will be expected to quickly learn; advising on this will be a significant part of the role.
For more information, please see the role profile at the bottom of the advert.
Who are we?
Transport for Greater Manchester oversees public transport in Greater Manchester, supporting the Mayor and Greater Manchester Combined Authority as the Transport Authority to deliver and improve transport services, facilities and information to make travel easier for everyone. This is a busy and exciting time for us as transport will play a vital role in supporting growth and prosperity in the UK’s largest regional economy outside London. You will be part of a busy and supportive legal team as we improve and develop the bus franchising regime, as well as further advance the Bee Network to create an integrated public transport offer within GM, including the provision of cycling and walking infrastructure and opportunities.
What you’ll bring:
This role requires an experienced lawyer adept at public procurement and commercial contract law with a strong commercial/corporate background working at a senior level; someone who is familiar with working in a team and who can bring their legal expertise and knowledge to not only support internal clients but to develop others in the team as well. Ideally, you will have experience of working in a highly regulated environment and will understand the public sector statutory regime and associated governance. As well as protecting TfGM’s corporate interests you will be involved in some significant procurements requiring novel, bespoke and complex contract drafting and negotiation. Ideally you will have some Transport law experience/knowledge of the statutory regime - or be prepared to become quickly accomplished in this area.
What you do and how you do it is important whatever type of role you work in at TfGM and even small behaviours and actions can have a really big impact. At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt.
What we can offer you:
In return, you will play a vital role in the sustained delivery and improvement of the Greater Manchester Bee Network and will be one of the key legal contacts for internal clients, managing your own matters, workload and diary.
As TfGM changes to manage the new challenges faced by bus franchising, integrated ticketing and improved services across Metrolink, rail and cycle hire, you will be at the forefront of helping the Legal team to manage, deliver and support this new regime.
Our benefits include:
- Generous annual leave starting at 28 days (plus bank holidays), increasing with service, with options to buy more.
- Free travel on buses across Greater Manchester, plus rail or Metrolink travel to and from work.
- Local Government defined pension scheme with life cover of 3x salary and options to boost your contributions.
- Enhanced family-friendly leave policies, including those supporting fertility treatment, alongside flexible and hybrid working and a special leave policy to support a range of unexpected events. Please note that qualification criteria may apply, including a requirement to have been employed with the organisation for a minimum specified period of time.
- Discover more benefits including wellbeing support, Personal and Career Development, Flexible working, financial support and more on our website
Why TfGM?
- Meaningful work: Play a key role in shaping the future of transport in Greater Manchester, impacting millions of lives each day.
- Professional Development: Opportunities to grow and develop your career through continuous learning and training.
- Collaborative culture: Work within a supportive and inclusive environment where your ideas are valued.
What's next?
If you believe you have the skills and experience required, we’d really like to hear from you. To apply please submit your CV and also provide a covering letter providing clear examples of how your experience meets the requirements of the role, all appointments will be based on merit. Our short-listing process is anonymised, so please do not include your name or contact details on either of these documents. If any personal details are included these will be visible to the hiring manager.
We embrace AI to enhance our operations and to innovate our services. However, we value human talent and are looking for passionate individuals to join our organisation. Please ensure you personally complete your application and read all the instructions carefully to maximise your chances of success. Applications that rely too heavily on AI may be rejected during shortlisting, however we understand that AI may be used as a reasonable adjustment; if using AI to support your application, please give a brief explanation why to help ensure fair selection process.
TfGM is proud to be an equal opportunities employer that encourages and celebrates diversity. We want to recruit and retain a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and welcome individuals from all backgrounds by committing to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We will offer support and reasonable adjustments if required and we also have a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme which you can find out more information on here.
For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK - if in doubt please visit the following link Employers' right to work checklist - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Please note we are not a licensed sponsor.
Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.
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