Senior Legal Advisor Luton easyJet has been disrupting the way people travel for 27 years and isnt stopping anytime soon! They welcome diversity in all forms and strive to make their workplace inclusive for everyone. With their Orange Spirit culture, working at easyJet is a unique experience that a
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Senior Legal Advisor

easyJet Airline Company Limited • 
Luton, England United Kingdom, International, United Kingdom
Position Type: Permanent
Job Description:

Senior Legal Advisor

Luton

easyJet has been disrupting the way people travel for 27 years and isnt stopping anytime soon! They welcome diversity in all forms and strive to make their workplace inclusive for everyone. With their Orange Spirit culture, working at easyJet is a unique experience that accelerates personal development. They value flexibility, balance, and wellbeing and are happy to talk about different working arrangements. As Europes leading airline, easyJet offers a vast network of over 1000 routes across 36 countries and leads the industry in digital and sustainable innovations. They support, empower, and excite their employees and customers in their own unique way. Join the belongherewithus movement and be part of easyJets story.

The General Counsel Office (GCO) at easyJet ensures legal, regulatory, and contractual compliance while protecting the business and customers. With a team of around 100 people, including professionals with diverse qualifications and capabilities, GCO handles essential projects such as aircraft procurement, system trials, and government negotiations. GCO offers a fulfilling work environment with hybrid working, flexibility, and travel perks, and employees are deeply embedded within the business as valued partners. The GCO team embodies easyJets Orange Spirit - positive, inclusive, purpose-driven, problem solvers, and united. With multiple individual and team awards, GCO is successful and ready to support employees in achieving their own success.

What youll be doing

Reporting to the Head of Legal (Corporate, Finance, Procurement & Ops), this role provides essential legal support across various teams including Strategy, Sustainability, Treasury, Fleet, Engineering & Maintenance, and Facilities. It is ideal for a senior-level transactional lawyer seeking to broaden their experience in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Key responsibilities include supporting strategic corporate projects, advising on financing and security arrangements, collaborating with the Sustainability team on ESG goals, advising on fleet transactions, supporting procurement processes, and managing an extensive property portfolio. Additionally, the role involves contributing to continuous improvement initiatives within the legal team.

Job Requirements:

What you'll bring to the team

You should be an experienced corporate lawyer, either in the UK or with an equivalent qualification. Ideally, you possess finance and commercial contracting expertise. Your significant in-house experience, whether gained directly or through client secondments, is a key asset. You excel at understanding the commercial landscape, effectively cutting through complexities to identify core issues and prioritize tasks. Multitasking is a strength, allowing you to manage competing priorities and intricate scenarios. You're proactive, self-motivated, and thrive in fast-paced environments, often taking the initiative to resolve challenges. Building strong relationships is your forte, with a history of earning trust and openness from others.

You're unafraid to express your views but also highly respectful of differing perspectives, consistently acting in the best interests of easyJet. You're comfortable in an informal, open-plan office setting, and your passion for easyJet, its brand, values, and commitment to operational excellence and customer experience, shines through. Your uniqueness and individuality are celebrated and embraced.

What we offer in return

  • Competitive base salary
  • Up to 30% bonus
  • 25 days holiday
  • BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes
  • 7% pension
  • Life Assurance
  • Flexible benefits package
  • Excellent staff travel benefits

 

Location & Hours of Works

This full-time role will be based in Luton and will be 40 hours per week.  Hybrid working with 3 days in the office.

About easyJet

At easyJet our aim is to make low-cost travel easy – connecting people to what they value using Europe’s best airline network, great value fares, and friendly service.

It takes a real team effort to carry over 90 million passengers a year across 35 countries. Whether you’re working as part of our front-line operations or in our corporate functions, you’ll find people that are positive, inclusive, ready to take on a challenge, and that have your back. We call that our ‘Orange Spirit’, and we hope you’ll share that too.

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Complete your application on our careers site.

We encourage individuality, empower our people to seize the initiative, and never stop learning. We see people first and foremost for their performance and potential and we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates.

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