Location
London
Position
Legal
Closing Date
24 Oct 2025

About The Role

12 Months Fixed Term Contract
 
Join our dynamic in-house legal team and play a key role in supporting the business through a wide variety of engaging and high-profile work. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain hands-on experience across commercial, regulatory, and corporate matters while working closely with stakeholders across the business. We’re looking for an experienced paralegal to provide high-quality legal and administrative support to a small legal & compliance team, assisting with the efficient delivery of legal services across the business. The role will suit a proactive paralegal with prior in-house experience who can work collaboratively with colleagues across legal, compliance, and operational teams.  

Reporting to the Deputy General Counsel, the key responsibilities are as follows:
  • Support the legal team with drafting, reviewing, and managing a range of commercial contracts, NDAs, and supplier agreements.
  • Assist with governance, data protection, and regulatory compliance matters.
  • Manage document production, due diligence, and matter tracking using a dedicated legal instructions system.
  • Liaise with internal stakeholders to gather information and help deliver clear, practical legal advice.
  • Support litigation, dispute resolution, and customer-facing queries where required (including liaising with external counsel).
  • Help coordinate responses to regulatory or customer requests, ensuring deadlines are met.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement of legal workflows and knowledge sharing within the team.
Skills and experience
  • Proven experience working as a paralegal in an in-house legal team.
  • Strong understanding of commercial contracts and key business law principles.
  • Excellent organisational and communication skills, with attention to detail.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and work autonomously.
  • Confident using legal and document management systems (e.g. contract databases, e-signing tools).
  • A team player with a collaborative, practical approach and strong customer focus.
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement of legal processes, templates, and ways of working within the team.
  • Complete ad hoc compliance tasks as requested by the Legal team.
 

About You

  • Paralegal qualified to LPC level, with solid experience gained in-house.  
  • You have a collaborative mindset and a genuine enthusiasm for working as part of a supportive in-house team.
  • You love attention to detail and are very comfortable working to deadlines.
Minimum criteria
You’ll need all of these.
  • Strong commercial contract and regulatory experience, with the ability to advise across a broad range of issues.
  • A pragmatic and solutions-focused approach, able to balance legal risk with commercial needs.
  • A proven ability to work independently and manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Collaborative mindset and a genuine enthusiasm for working as part of a supportive in-house team.
  • Curiosity and flexibility to take on new areas of work and grow your expertise.
  • Excellent attention to detail and highly organised.
Who you’ll be working with
You will be part of the Legal & Compliance team.  We provide proactive legal and regulatory advice that supports the business’ strategic direction.  We’re a collaborative team who is keen to take feedback and different ways of working to ensure we continue to achieve as a team and as a business.  We work collaboratively with the business and are supportive of each other,  ‘pitching in’ with any tasks as and when required.  We are proud of our role within the business providing commercial and pragmatic advice. 

About The Company

Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 800,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:

  • We find solutions
  • We drive change
  • We care

We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers.  It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.

As a Motability Operations team member, the benefits you can expect are:

  • Competitive reward package including an annual discretionary bonus
  • 15% non-contributory pension (9% non-contributory pension during probation period)
  • 28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days
  • Free fresh fruit and snacks in the office
  • 1 day for volunteering
  • Funded Private Medical Insurance cover
  • Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme and Cycle to Work Scheme
  • Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you a peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help
  • Funded health screening for over 50s
  • Voluntary benefits: charitable giving, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, health and cancer screenings for you and your partner, discounted gym memberships and season ticket loans
  • Employee Discount Scheme with an app to save on the go
  • Free access to healthcare apps such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP and volunteering app on Hand for all employees
  • Generous family leave policies

At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.  We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they’re rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.

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