Senior Legal Counsel

• Work on a broad range of commercial contracts and strategic change projects
• Join a collaborative legal team with strong development and knowledge sharing opportunities
• Hybrid 80% homeworking and 20% from our Stratford Upon Avon office

About the role

At NFU Mutual, as a Senior Legal Counsel you will provide expert legal advice across the business, helping to protect the organisation's interests and minimise legal risk. You will play a key role in supporting contract activity, advising stakeholders, and contributing to wider business initiatives.

This role sits within a collaborative legal team of around 12 colleagues. You will manage your own caseload and work independently, while partnering closely with procurement, operational risk, and stakeholders across the business.

Your primary focus will be advising business stakeholders on a wide range of commercial and legal matters, with a strong focus on drafting, negotiating, maintaining and renewing commercial contracts. You will also support governance activities, and help communicate regulatory changes across the organisation.

Alongside this, there may be opportunities to be involved in strategic change projects and broader transformation activity, including work linked to a project to implement technology to manage the end-to-end supplier lifecycle, including supplier selection, contracting and relationship management.

This is a fixed term opportunity for 12 months offering varied work, exposure to strategic initiatives and the ability to develop your expertise within a supportive team environment.

About you

You are a qualified legal professional with strong commercial contract expertise and the confidence to manage your own workload independently. You bring a practical and solutions focused approach, with the ability to work effectively with stakeholders across different areas of the business.

To join NFU Mutual, you'll also bring

• Proven experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts and supplier agreements
• Strong legal advisory capability, with the ability to communicate complex issues clearly to a range of stakeholders
• Experience working collaboratively with business teams, including procurement, or within project environments
• Effective stakeholder management, with the ability to influence and build relationships across all levels
• Must be admitted as a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales Essential

At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.

We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

Benefits and Rewards

When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

Level 5

• Salary - Up to £100,000 depending on experience
• Annual bonus (up to 25% of salary)
• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
• 28 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
• Private medical insurance + options to add family members
• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership - subject to T&Cs
• Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
• Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year
• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
• Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
• Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.
• Salary sacrifice employee car scheme - subject to eligibility

Working at NFU Mutual

We're one of the UK's leading general insurance and financial services organisations, and for over 110 years we've put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us, so we're proud to be recognised as "a great place to work".

Our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2026 award was not only awarded with Distinction, but it also marked us as the first UK based company to earn a Gallup Exceptional Workplace award for eleven consecutive years. We've also been consistently recognised by Glassdoor. We appeared in the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK list in 2023, 2024 and 2026 - and in 2026, we were the highest ranked insurance business in the UK, highlighting our strong employee experience and the positive feedback our people share on the platform.

Additionally, we were named in the LinkedIn Top Companies 2026 list of "Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK", and we've been certified as a UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026.
We offer a supportive and empowering culture where people are inspired to perform, given opportunities to grow, and recognised and rewarded for their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable-so we're successful now and in the future.