Head of Legal - 12 month Fixed Term Contract

GoHenry

HEAD OF PROCUREMENT (FINTECH), 12-MONTH FIXED TERM CONTRACT GoHenry is a UK-based fintech company created by parents to pioneer financial education. More recently, GoHenry moved into Europe and the US by joining forces with French fintech company PixPay and US investing app, Acorns. Together, Acorns, PixPay, and GoHenry have over 6 million members across 5 countries. We are focused on empowering families with engaging money management tools, educational content, and a seamless product experience that creates financial well-being from birth to adulthood. Join us on our mission to make every kid smart with money! We are looking for a sharp, agile, and forward-thinking strategic Head of Procurement to own and enhance our procurement related processes. As the Gohenry Head of Procurement, you won’t just help with managing costs; you will be a strategic business partner responsible for managing commercial contract negotiations and oversight of governance relative to our existing vendor base. You will oversee the end-to-end procurement and vendor governance lifecycle for material categories, including cloud infrastructure, SaaS, third-party APIs, and professional services. You will bridge the gap between our internal support functions to ensure we partner with top-tier vendors that match our speed, culture, and regulatory standards, while iterating the third-party risk management framework the business requires. WHAT YOU WILL DO AT GOHENRY: * Category Management & Sourcing: Lead end-to-end strategic sourcing initiatives for IT, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), AWS/GCP cloud infrastructure, data feeds, and specialised FinTech tooling. * Material Vendor Negotiation: Working with the GoHenry Legal Team and vendor account owners to commercialise and negotiate complex, multi-year vendor contracts to maximise value, ensure scalability, and protect the company bottom line. * Risk & Compliance Collaboration: Partner closely with Information Security (InfoSec), Operational Risk, and Legal teams to ensure all vendors comply with applicable regulatory requirements, including FCA rules and guidance, e-money regulations, operational resilience requirements, and supporting standards such as PCI-DSS and SOC2. * Stakeholder Alignment: Act as a trusted advisor to Engineering, Product, and Executive teams, transforming their requirements into commercial agreements. * Supplier Relationship Management (SRM): Develop and track vendor KPIs and SLAs, ensuring critical partners deliver on their promises and continuously innovate alongside our Product, Tech and Ops teams. * Process Optimisation: Help iterate and automate our procurement infrastructure, implementing modern tooling to move away from legacy approval chains. * Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM): Formalise and own GoHenry's TPRM framework, including vendor risk tiering, onboarding due diligence, ongoing monitoring, and board-level reporting on vendor risk. * Vendor Resilience & Continuity: Identify single-point-of-failure vendor dependencies, develop contingency and exit strategies for critical suppliers, and maintain an up-to-date vendor contingency risk map. * Vendor Governance Lifecycle: Own the full vendor governance lifecycle end-to-end, including contract renewals and regulatory-driven vendor assessments. WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO GOHENRY: (REQUIREMENTS) * Experience: 6+ years of experience in strategic procurement, strategic sourcing, or vendor management—ideally within a regulated Tech, SaaS, or FinTech or or financial services environment. * The FinTech Mindset: You understand that "speed to market" is just as important as "cost savings." You see your role as a partnership with other teams and you use those relationships with both internal teams and vendors to unblock bottlenecks without cutting corners on compliance. * Master Negotiator: A proven track record of dismantling complex pricing models and successfully negotiating with tech vendors. * Analytical Rigor: Strong financial acumen; ability to build TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) models and ROI analyses. * Communication: Strong interpersonal skills. You can speak "developer" to the engineering team and "ROI" to the CFO. * TPRM Expertise: Direct experience iterating or operating a third-party risk management framework (ideally in a regulated financial services environment), including vendor risk tiering, due diligence, and ongoing monitoring. NICE-TO-HAVES * Experience navigating financial and regulatory audits. * Familiarity with modern procurement and spend-management software. * Professional certifications (e.g., CIPS, CPSM). * Working knowledge of FCA regulatory expectations for outsourcing and third-party risk management, including the FCA's operational resilience framework. What’s in it for you? All the essentials you would expect, including a workplace pension plan, 33 days of holiday (including public holidays), & great company events local & abroad! Other Offers: * GoFlex - Work from Home, Office, or a mix of both * Your Birthday Day off * 25 days annual leave, in addition to 8 UK bank holidays * An excellent Induction & onboarding program with ongoing learning & development throughout your career * A choice between Bupa Health Cash Plan or Bupa Private Medical * Death in service – 4x your annual salary from month 1 * Physical and Mental Wellbeing support and platforms for you and your family * Family-friendly leave policies * Enhanced maternity leave – 20 weeks full basic pay after 2 years’ service and 26 weeks full basic pay after 3 years’ service * Paternity leave – 4 weeks full pay after probation * Salary Sacrifice options About GoHenry We’re on a mission to help every kid be smart with money. Our goal? Create generations of independent, confident young adults, armed with money skills that will set them up for life. How we do it: We place the power in the hands of young people, giving them the tools they need to master the financial ropes for themselves. They can spend, save, earn, and give with GoHenry’s prepaid debit card and app – because learning through doing really works (and it’s more fun!). All while our unique built-in controls give parents total peace of mind. We’re proud to say... * We ranked #38 in Newsweek's Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces in the UK in 2023 * We’re one of Tech Track’s top 50 fastest-growing UK companies. * We won Finders Kid’s Cards Customer Satisfaction Awards in 2022 and 2023. * We won the Tech for Good award at the Better Society Awards 2023 * Our kids and parents have donated over £500,000 of their own money to NSPCC via their GoHenry accounts But we’re still growing, and that’s why we need you. GoHenry is an equal-opportunity employer, and we’re on a mission to foster a diverse & inclusive workplace. Individuals seeking employment at GoHenry are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

HSPG

THE ESSENTIALS  THE BENEFITS: Platform: PPHA 25 holiday days per year;  Status: Full time, permanent. 4 ‘Me Days’ per year (take a Me Day – focus on you); Salary: £80-90k Team social events and trips; Bonus: TBD Wellness allowance of £70 per month to be used for gym, Working arrangement: We typically work 4 days in the office, classes, physio or other wellness costs; 1 day from home.  Private healthcare with Vitality; Hours: 37.5 hours per week. Mintago financial platform; Start: March/April 2026 Drive Electric salary sacrifice; Enhanced maternity, paternity and parental leave; Employee referral scheme: £2,000 towards a getaway of your choice HSPG: A social impact real estate company Our mission is simple: Building partnerships, creating homes, developing communities. There is a critical lack of affordable housing across the UK, affecting the most vulnerable people in our community. We build long-term partnerships with Local Authorities to acquire and manage demand-driven social and affordable housing across various tenures, as per the image below. Across HSPG’s Living Sector platforms, we are actively acquiring 2,500 high-quality homes from national housebuilders and developers by the end of 2025. These properties are managed by our experienced team, grouped into portfolios, and funded by our institutional investment partners. HSPG aims to positively impacts our residents’ lives, while providing long-term, sustainable returns for our investment partners.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Core Behaviours: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Core mission:  As Senior Acquisitions Manager, your mission is to acquire £100m of high-quality housing for PPHA, ensuring every home is of a quality that you’d be happy to move your own family (or yourself) into, and that delivers strong  returns for PPHA.  You are responsible for executing the strategic growth of PPHA’s affordable housing portfolio, influencing our acquisitions approach, mentoring your analysts, and ensuring every transaction contributes to our mission: building partnerships, creating homes, developing communities.  You will contribute evenly to the acquisition target (£400m pa) and ensure that you transact according to our buy box and specifications. You should treat every acquisition and scheme as if it were your own business, aiming to achieve the best metrics, quality and overall service for PPHA and our customers.  You will source new deal opportunities nationwide through a network of housebuilders, developers and agents and personally manage the deal process from site identification through to legal exchange/completion. You will have detailed knowledge of the contractual and legal processes involved, and will be able to oversee it to completion, ensuring the deal achieves all commercial objectives.   You will be a trusted voice in the Investment Committee, using your expertise to influence decisions and drive value. You will ensure our acquisitions pipeline is diverse, resilient, and forward-looking   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Obsess: These points get you out of bed in the morning and keep you up at night! If you’re not obsessed with these, the role isn’t for you.  * Pipeline powerhouse: you live and breathe your pipeline. You know exactly where every opportunity sits, what’s next to convert, and how to remove obstacles that slow momentum. You ensure the team’s pipeline aligns with PPHA’s strategy and supports our £400m+ annual target. * Relationships that deliver: you nurture long-term, trusted relationships with developers, housebuilders, investors and agents. You’re not chasing deals, you’re building partnerships that create repeat, high-quality deal flow. * Flawless execution: you ensure every deal is watertight: commercially sound, legally clean, and aligned with our buy box. You take pride in the detail because you know precision is what keeps deals alive.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Excel: You are excellent at these areas: an expert.  * Strategic deal leadership: you can quickly assess whether a site fits PPHA’s commercial and social objectives. You understand how yield, tenure mix, and location affect long-term performance for both investors and residents. You are comfortable challenging assumptions and guiding the team toward optimal deal structures. * Financial and commercial acumen: you can lead detailed appraisals, stress-test returns, and translate complex financial outcomes into clear strategic recommendations. You anticipate how variables (grant, programme, OMV, rent levels) impact NIY and investor appetite. You understand the levers that influence value across the full transaction lifecycle.   * Building relationships: you are a senior relationship owner with developers, funders, and local authorities. You negotiate confidently to secure the best commercial and quality outcomes. You represent PPHA with professionalism and authority in all interactions, ensuring we are the preferred partner of choice.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Specific experience:  * Led transactions totaling £200m+ in aggregate GDV across affordable housing, build-to-rent, or mixed-tenure residential schemes. * Strong command of investment appraisal and financial modelling, with the ability to interpret outputs and drive strategic recommendations. * Exposure to institutional or fund-backed investment partners, and experience preparing and presenting at Investment Committees or similar governance forums.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Outcomes & Metrics: the desired result and how we measure it   Months   Outcomes: the desired result   Metrics: how we measure it      0-3   Establish yourself as a visible leader within the Feedback from direct reports, peers, and department heads acquisitions and wider PPHA team.  via pulse survey or informal review.    Gain a comprehensive understanding of PPHA’s investment Demonstrated application of criteria within IC submissions criteria, funding structures, and governance framework.  and internal discussions.    Review and refine the current acquisitions pipeline and Completion of formal pipeline review report and presentation prioritisation, identifying quick wins and high-potential to Head of Acquisitions.  opportunities.    Develop a 12-month acquisition strategy outline for your Draft completed and approved by end of month 3.  region or portfolio, aligned with business targets and investor objectives.    Reconnect with existing developer, agent, and investment Pipeline tracker updated; meetings logged and summarised.  relationships, ensuring continuity and confidence in leadership transition.    Introduce at least 5–10 new developer or intermediary New contacts recorded in tracker with meeting notes or relationships, expanding deal flow potential.  proposals logged.    Attend key industry events or meetings to represent PPHA as Attendance log; event summary or post-meeting action notes.  a senior acquisitions lead.    Identify and implement one improvement in the acquisition Documented improvement proposal with measurable impact (e.g. process or Investment Committee workflow that increases reduced IC turnaround time, enhanced data accuracy).  speed or quality.    Personally lead at least two schemes through to Investment 2 IC approvals led by role-holder with positive quality Committee approval, ensuring robust commercial rationale and feedback.  presentation quality.    Ensure at least one scheme progresses to legal heads of 1 scheme at HoTs or exchange-ready stage by month 3.  terms or exchange readiness within this period.    Deliver accurate, insightful monthly acquisition reports to Reports submitted on schedule and rated as accurate and the Head of Acquisitions.   actionable by line manager.  3-6  Own a defined regional or tenure-based acquisition portfolio Portfolio ownership agreed; clear financial and volume with accountability for delivery against target.  targets established.    Lead the acquisition of multiple schemes, demonstrating Number of deals under heads of terms, exchanged, or at IC command of deal structures, negotiation, and execution.  stage.    Drive measurable improvement in the quality, pace, or 10–15% faster IC-to-exchange timeline or improved yield profitability of the acquisition process.  margins demonstrated.    Personally lead at least ten new schemes through to 10+ IC approvals led by role-holder with positive quality Investment Committee approval, ensuring robust commercial feedback.  rationale and presentation quality.    Demonstrate full-cycle deal leadership from origination to Minimum of 8+ schemes completed through full cycle with legal completion and handover.  clean internal handovers.    Present with confidence and authority at Investment 90% IC approval rate on presented deals; positive commentary Committee, representing PPHA’s commercial objectives.  on clarity and rationale.  6-12  Deliver sustained acquisition performance across portfolio, Delivery of £100m+ GDV within portfolio, achieving target achieving annualised contribution targets.  yield and margin parameters.    Collaborate with the Investments and Sales teams to inform Cross-departmental input into investment strategy, sales portfolio strategy and product mix.  feedback loops.    Represent PPHA at senior forums and external stakeholder Active representation at 2 senior forums or public sector meetings, positioning the brand as a trusted delivery partnership groups.  partner.

Lawhive

ABOUT LAWHIVE We’re combining AI with human lawyers to build the world’s biggest AI-native consumer law firm and make legal services accessible to everyone. The legal industry is built on technology and processes that haven’t been updated in hundreds of years - that's why we've reinvented the entire model from the ground up with our own bespoke AI operating system at the core. Lawhive is a regulated law firm with an AI-native platform built to amplify expertise and revolutionise the way people practice law, leading to exceptional outcomes for clients and lawyers. Lawhive Labs is how we bring this vision to life. It's our frontier lab that combines top engineering, design, AI and legal talent from around the world, joining forces to build the future of law. We’re backed by top-tier investors, including Google Ventures, Balderton Capital and TQ Ventures, and in early 2026, we secured $60M Series B funding round to facilitate international expansion and to grow our team. We’re headquartered in London and in 2025 successfully launched in the US…and we’re just getting started. ENGINEERING AT LAWHIVE We are a team of 40 engineers and researchers, responsible for architecting, building and running Lawhive’s platform, already relied upon by hundreds of legal professionals every day in the UK, US, and beyond. There are lots of problems we have yet to solve, and plenty we’re not aware of yet! In the next 12 months, we’re focused on: * Full stack AI-native legal services: we’re not only building software, we’re an AI-native law firm * Building modularity, legal flexibility and country independence into the heart of our platform. We’ve recently expanded to the US and are building the world’s first global consumer law firm * Pushing the envelope on the user experience of lawyers’ AI interactions. We’re not satisfied with “chat” as a default and are inventing a new paradigm for human/machine interaction Our tech stack and day-to-day tools are: * TypeScript for the majority of our applications, frontends, and microservices * Python for data ingestion and our AI services * AWS for our cloud infrastructure * Postgres for our data storage * Terraform for defining infrastructure as code THE ROLE As Head of Product Engineering, you’ll shape, lead and evolve our entire engineering department, reporting directly into our CTO, Jaime. You’ll be the driving force in building the next evolution of Lawhive’s platform - making a difference to our customers and propelling Lawhive to the next step-change in growth. On a daily basis you’ll be working across Engineering and alongside our designers, product managers, AI researchers, lawyers, and the wider engineering group. WHAT YOU'LL DO * Be right-hand person to our CTO, supporting on technical strategy and architecture * Lead and mentor the engineering team, driving a high-performance, delivery-focused culture * Be an exceptional technical leader and architect of a complex international product * Lead on hiring - continuously level up the team through new exceptional talent * Keep the engineering machine running smoothly - set the structure, ways of working and quality standards in your image * Form exceptionally strong cross-functional partnerships with Product, Design, AI, Customer and Sales teams and operate as one unit and drive strong communication standards * Be a key member of Lawhive SLT and help set the future business strategy as we scale globally * Have a player/coach mindset and know when to get your hands dirty - the right person for this role won’t be afraid of getting into the code * Formalise delivery management and evolve our performance development processes * Encourage innovation - drive a product-minded culture and lead the way on leveraging AI to effectively scale output * Ensure our products evolve quickly and safely with the best development, security and testing practices INTERVIEW PROCESS * Introductory call with our Talent team * 1:1 with CTO * Technical interview with CTO and technical leads * 1:1 with CEO * Values Interview * We offer! UK Benefits: 💰 Meaningful early-stage equity at one of Europe’s fastest growing startups ✈️ 33 days’ annual leave (25 + bank holidays) plus your birthday off 💰 Pension contribution via Nest 🌍 Work from anywhere for a month 💻 Top-spec equipment - MacBook/Windows ⛳️ Regular team building activities and socials! Diversity at Lawhive At Lawhive, we know that diversity of thought is critical to delivering outlier outcomes. As such, we’re always working hard to ensure we build a diverse, inclusive team, and as we scale, we’ll only ever increase the focus we apply to this.