Legal Counsel UK remote

About Aptean 

Aptean is a global provider of mission-critical, industry-specific software solutions. Aptean’s purpose-built ERP and supply chain management solutions help address the unique challenges facing process and discrete manufacturers, distributors, and other focused organizations. Aptean’s compliance solutions are built for companies serving specific markets such as finance, healthcare, biotech, and pharmaceuticals. Over 10,000 organizations in more than 20 industries across 54 countries trust Aptean’s solutions at their core to assist with running their operations.  

General Summary 

As a Legal Counsel, you will provide legal support and assistance to the Aptean businesses located in UK and Ireland. 

Responsibilities 

• Analyzing, summarizing, advising on, drafting and negotiating all kinds of contractual documentation including software license agreements and SaaS agreements for customers 

• Ensuring compliance with Aptean’s corporate policies 

• Negotiating with outside parties on contractual issues and legal disputes 

• Anticipating and mitigating potential legal problems within the organization and developing strategies to avoid costly litigation and reduce potential areas of risk 

• Consulting with management, commercial advisors, tax experts, accountants and marketing staff 

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Work experience and requirements  

• Qualified lawyer with 5-6 years of experience working in-house in a software/IT company drafting and negotiating software/IT contracts with customers   

• Excellent analytical, communication, diplomatic, research and drafting skills  

• Ability to work well independently and in a team in a dynamic, rapidly changing workplace 

• A combination of law firm and in-house company experience 

About Aptean
At Aptean, our mission is to solve tomorrow’s unique challenges today with unrivaled,
purpose-built software and superior customer experiences from people who care.
Aptean is a global provider of mission-critical, industry-specific software solutions.
Aptean’ s purpose-built ERP and supply chain management solutions help address the
unique challenges facing process and discrete manufacturers, distributors and other
focused organizations. Aptean’ s compliance solutions are built for companies serving
specific markets such as finance, healthcare, biotech and pharmaceuticals, over 10,000
highly specialized organizations in more than 20 industries and 80 countries rely on
Aptean to streamline their everyday operations.

“At Aptean, our global and diverse employee base is our greatest asset. It is through
embracing and understanding our differences that we are able to harness our individual
power to maximize the success of our customers, our employees and our company.” –
TVN Reddy

Aptean pledges to promote a company culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are
central. We are committed to applying this principle as we interact with our customers,
build our teams, cultivate our leaders and shape a company in which any employee can
succeed, regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, sexuality and gender identity,
religion, disability or age. Celebrating our diverse experiences, opinions and beliefs
allows us to embrace what makes us unique and to use this as an asset in bringing
innovative solutions to our customer base.