Legal Counsel - Individual Life & Pensions
External
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Responsibilities
- Provide timely, clear and commercially pragmatic legal advice on matters relating to: retail savings and investment products
- product structuring and design
- customer communications and financial promotions
- Interpret and apply relevant legal and regulatory frameworks, translating these into practical guidance for the business
- Support the business in identifying and managing legal, regulatory and conduct risks
- Advise on the development and implementation of new and existing products and propositions, including changes to features, distribution and servicing models
- Provide legal input into product lifecycle management, including remediation activity where required
- Draft, review and advise on: policy terms and conditions
- customer communications
- marketing materials and financial promotions
Requirements
- Technical expertise
- Qualified solicitor (England & Wales or equivalent) with at least 4 years of relevant PQE (Essential)
- Experience of advising within one of the following sectors (Essential): Life insurance and/or
- Pensions and/or
- Asset/wealth management and/or
- Retail financial services
- Working knowledge of legal and regulatory frameworks relevant to retail savings and investment products.
- Commercial and analytical capability
- Strong ability to apply legal principles pragmatically in a commercial context
- Sound judgement and ability to balance legal risk with business objectives
- Ability to manage complex issues and provide clear recommendations
- Stakeholder management
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Proven ability to influence and engage effectively with senior stakeholders
- Collaborative approach, with the ability to work across functions
- Personal attributes
- Proactive, solutions-oriented approach
- High levels of integrity and professional judgement
- Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality output to deadlines
- Experience Level: Manager/Expert
- Recruiter: Helen Simons
Benefits
Additional Information
Our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions. Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions. Through telling it like it is, owning it now, and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent. We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer work place accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role. Purpose We are seeking an experienced retail financial services lawyer to join as permanent member of the M&G Legal team, focusing on advising our Individual Life & Pensions business. The role will support the development, distribution and ongoing management of retail savings and investment propositions to enable business growth and ensure good customer outcomes.
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