Legal Manager

About Us

City Building provides a range of repairs and maintenance, manufacturing, construction and refurbishment activities for Glasgow City Council and Wheatley Housing Group’s citizens and customers as well as other public, private and third sector organisations.

City Building operates both the largest construction craft apprenticeship programme in Scotland, and Royal Strathclyde Blindcraft Industries (RSBi), one of the largest supported manufacturing businesses in Europe, around 200 people, more than 50% of whom have a disability.

Our accreditations include, ISO45001, ISO 14001 and ISO 9001:2015. We are current recipients of a Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promoting Opportunity and Investors in Young People Platinum award. Both these accolades recognise our focus on investing in and growing a skilled staff base.

As a City Building employee, you’ll enjoy a competitive salary, excellent annual leave, and access to the Strathclyde Pension Fund. You will also benefit from wellbeing initiatives and discounted gym membership, supporting a positive and healthy work‑life balance.

About the Role

The Legal manager is a key member of the Legal & Commercial Team within City Building, reporting to the Divisional Director – Legal & Commercial.

As part of a dedicated corporate legal team, you will be responsible for delivering legal advice and support to City Building’s internal departments including Health & Safety, Operations, Procurement, and Commercial.

You will develop a good understanding of the business and industry to effectively deliver professional, consistent, and appropriate legal support across City Building to meet the statutory and legal standards.

This is a broad in-house legal role with several key responsibilities including covering commercial and construction contracts, dispute resolution, corporate law, compliance and risk, insolvency, procurement, insurance, data protection, property, litigation management and providing legal input on bids and tenders. The Legal Manager will directly manage the legal function and external advisers.

You will support organisational change by effectively working with key stakeholders to ensure business decisions fully consider legal risks, implications and opportunities and meet business objectives.

What You Will Bring

As the Legal Manager you will work collaboratively with the Executive Leadership team and Operational Managers to achieve the objectives of the organisation.

You will manage the function and be responsible for the professional development of the team. Also, you will have a record of continuous professional development.

Excellent analytical and decision-making skills are required to efficiently interpret complex information and data to recommend effective legal strategies.

You will be a highly effective communicator with negotiating and presenting skills as you will be required to present proposals and good arguments effectively to key stakeholders.

You must be a qualified Solicitor holding a current Scottish Practising Certificate. A Degree or equivalent level qualification in law is required for this role. Experience working for a local authority, LLP, and/or in-house environment is advantageous.

Please refer to the Role Profile for further details on the role.

How to Apply

If you feel you have the necessary skills and experience for this role then please forward a CV and completed supporting statement to the HR Team, Recruitment@citybuildingglasgow.co.uk by Midnight on Sunday 5th April 2026.