Thales Legal and Contracts Graduate Programme

On our two-year Legal & Contracts Programme, you'll gain invaluable expertise on £multi-million contract negotiations across four challenging work placements.

We're inventing the future, right here, right now, at Thales. By combining the curiosity to explore, the intelligence to question and the vision to create, we're transforming the world around us. Together, we ponder the positively perplexing problems our customers face across Aerospace, Space, Transportation, Defence and Security. Everywhere safety and security matter, we deliver.

You might not realise it but our work touches most people's lives, every single day. From the Thales fare collection systems in 100 cities around the world to in-flight entertainment systems for passenger planes and state-of-the-art equipment for military aircraft, the scope and scale of our problem-solving abilities know no bounds.

Why Legal and Contracts at Thales?
The Legal and Contract team ensures the legal and commercial integrity of all the commitments we make as a company. The team also makes sure that everything we do complies with our legal, ethical and contractual responsibilities. This means overseeing contractual affairs - often running into £multi-million territory - at every stage, from bidding and negotiation to project delivery and contract closure.

It is your chance to enjoy a uniquely broad perspective on our business, as well as to work closely with all other business functions. Our contractual commitments, and our ability to deliver on them, are business-critical for Thales UK.

Key responsibilities
- Evaluating and advising on commercial risk in bids and recommending mitigation strategies.
- Interpreting contractual documents and amendments to existing and potential contracts.
- Advising on potential liabilities, risks, issues and disputes (including potential termination of contracts) arising with customers, suppliers, employees or third parties and working within multi-functional teams to reduce company risk and exposure.
- Contributing to the successful delivery of Contracts by managing the commercial aspects of the delivery to the Customer as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Ensure appropriate export licences are in place, including liaising with Supply Chain to understand the export classification of goods.
- Taking on commercial reviews of proposal documents and reviewing customer/third party terms and conditions
- Supporting our in-house Legal team and the Company Secretariat team, as appropriate, in relation to topics such as intellectual property rights, commercial law, commercial property matters, employment law and company law.

Skills, qualifications and experience
- You will need to be studying, or have recently completed a degree, and while degrees in law or a business related subject would be highly regarded, we welcome graduates in any discipline who demonstrate the right credentials.
- You will be a team player with good interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
- You will have excellent attention to detail, along with the ability to effectively summarise (oral and written).
- You should be commercially aware and able to bring a professional attitude to colleagues and customers alike.
- You need to be comfortable trying new things.

Together, we're driven by doing things differently and making things better. Together, we'll fire your imagination and fulfil your potential. Together, we are Thales. Join us.