As the Legal and Commercial Contracts Specialist you will play a key role in protecting the company through mitigating risks and maintaining legal compliance of the company in all locations.  You will be required to draft, review and negotiate customer contracts whilst developing and maintaining contract templates.

You will also be responsible for leading the efforts associated with the contract life cycle management for sales contracts. You will work cross functionally with all parts of the company globally, communicating with internal and external stakeholders, including suppliers, customers, insurers and external legal counsel.

This is a new opportunity and will help move science forward to support the wider business to reduce potential risk exposure with each agreement whether it's liaising with the Quality & Compliance Team to ensure legal and reputational risks are controlled, or working with the Sales team to ensure bids/tenders are viable from a technical, commercial and financial perspective.

Responsibilities will include:

• Draft, review and negotiate customer commercial agreements, such as Service Agreements and Non-Disclosure Agreements, to ensure compliance with all applicable laws, regulations and company policies

• Maintain and update contract database ensuring contracts are properly executed, documented and stored

• Maintain the company repository of legal precedents and other templates, ensuring they remain current and compliant with current legislation and regulations

• Preparing/drafting intercompany and other transactional legal agreements, as required

• Support legal related initiatives in other departments such as document retention, data privacy, obtaining and managing licences required by the business and legal technology implementation e.g. docusign, etc

• Manage the lifecycle of a customer claim from notification of complaint to resolution, this includes liaising with the insurance company, collating all the required information to defend the claim and concluding settlement

Our company values matter, and guide all that we do each day. The successful candidate will be expected to operate in line with them as we strive to be the provider of choice for specialist logistics solutions to the global scientific community, based on the highest levels of care, expertise and precision; enabling our customers to retain absolute focus on research and development.

In addition, you will demonstrate these key competencies:

• Bachelors Degree in Law (or GDL and LPC)

• Previous in-house experience with proven expertise in reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts and providing legal advice and support to internal stakeholders on a variety of legal matters

• Excellent drafting, negotiation and communication skills

• Strong negotiation and analytical skills, with commercial acumen to make sound decisions and recommendations to senior members of the company.

In return we offer:

• A competitive annual base salary of between £70,000 to £80,000 pro rata depending on experience

• A generous non-contributory pension

• 25 days holiday and the option to buy/sell 5 days (pro rata)

• Birthday leave

• Life Assurance

• Group Income Protection

• Private Medical Insurance

• Wellness Programme

This is a part time role, 20 hours per week, with flexibility to complete the hours over 3, 4 or 5 days this role is offered as hybrid with 60% of your time being based at our Cambridge office in Sawston (CB22 3EG).

Applications will close on Tuesday 20th January 2026. Please note that suitable candidates may be invited to interview prior to the closing date and we reserve the right to close the vacancy early should we receive a sufficient number of applications.

This is a UK based role and the right to live and work in the UK will need to be established during the recruitment process. Please note we are not currently a Home Office visa sponsorship licence holder. 

Biocair provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Please be aware that we are NOT inviting recruitment agencies to submit candidates for this role and as such any approaches will be rejected. Thank you for your understanding.

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