Aviva UK now have an opening for a senior lawyer to join our Saving & Retirement (S&R) team within our legal function. The role will focus on providing commercial, first class legal advice to this strategic growth area which includes Workplace S&R (including Master Trust), Individual S&R (adviser and direct pension & investment platforms) and Aviva Financial Advice.

This is a committed and collaborative team currently based in York, Bristol and London. Our team provides end-to-end commercially focussed legal support to the business area described above. This is a busy and strategically important team which strives to deliver the best legal service for its clients and has a strong focus on fostering senior relationships across the business. We see it as a great opportunity to be part of really growing area of Aviva - where your insights, work and innovation will help us build our S&R business and you with it.

Aviva uses “Smart Working”, and the person in this role can be based anywhere in the UK, as long as they are comfortable regularly travelling to our York, Bristol, London or Norwich offices.

The role’s duties & responsibilities:

• Provide commercially focused legal advice across Aviva UK (S&R) business units

• Review, draft and negotiate contracts relating to S&R business units

• Advise on, draft and review customer facing contractual documentation and product literature across different media including digital and social media

• Advise in relation to new propositions and key strategic investments

• Provide input into Board and Committee papers where required, and provide concise and tailored summaries for various business partners including Finance and Risk

• Upwards management of key risks and issues to the Head of Legal, and General Counsel of UK Life

• Building solid relationships with key business partners within S&R and the wider Aviva group to provide strategic feedback into the S&R business areas and help deliver at pace

Skills & experiences we’re looking for:

• Qualified Solicitor and/or Barrister with strong experience of working in the Financial Services market, particularly in the pensions/savings industry

• Proven negotiating experience and relationship management skills

• Strong commercial and strategic mind-set

• Track record of reacting and adapting to and implementing change at pace

• Knowledge of Workplace (Master Trust) and/or Individual Pensions is desirable

• Experience with savings and investment platforms or financial advice firms and propositions would be great to see

What will you get for this role?

• A competitive salary depending on location, skills, experience and qualifications

• Generous defined contribution pension scheme

• Annual performance related bonus and pay review

• Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days

• Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family (some exclusions apply)

• Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme

Working at Aviva

At Aviva, we’re people with a purpose. To be with you today, for a better tomorrow.

We bring this to life by ensuring managing risk is at the heart of the way we all work. We love people who do the right thing for our customers, and our colleagues. We want people who speak up, who take ownership, and who make good decisions.

The way we do this is important too, we’re all about our people – that’s you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you want to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we’re very open to that. In fact, we don’t advertise roles as either part or full time, because we know each person has different needs, just as each business area has different needs. So, it’s up to you to discuss working hours during your interview.

We care deeply about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you.

We interview every disabled applicant* that meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us a separate email stating that you have a disclosed disability and we’ll make sure we interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Daniel Hopchet a call on 0121 234 7625 or send an email to Daniel.Hopchet@Aviva.com.

*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean you should provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role.