Stannah is a family-owned manufacturing and engineering company. Our products move people and goods in and around homes and buildings. We make life easier for people. We do this by improving access for greater convenience and independence.
Joseph Stannah founded the business in 1867. A lot has happened since then and today Stannah is a global business. The family is in their fifth generation and plays a hands-on role in running the business. Most people know us for our stairlifts. Our range of products includes lifts, escalators, and homelifts. We also provide maintenance and repair services.
Legal Counsel - Compliance Jobs in Andover at Stannah - Join Our Team!
Our products help people live independently in their own homes – and this role shapes how we grow that business responsibly. You’ll work on practical issues across an international business and help shape how we respond to changing legal, regulatory and stakeholder expectations.
You’ll join our Legal, Risk & Compliance team, reporting directly to the Group General Counsel, with regular exposure to senior leaders across the Group. You’ll work across functions and jurisdictions, helping the business understand evolving requirements and turn them into practical, effective ways of working. You’ll help strengthen our compliance framework, support ESG initiatives and ensure legal and regulatory obligations are managed consistently and effectively across the Group.
This is a varied role offering international exposure, direct mentoring and structured support to build a recognised specialism in these areas.
Based at our Andover Head Office, the role offers the flexibility of hybrid working and a competitive benefits package, including private medical insurance, competitive pension scheme, profit share, managers’ bonus scheme and car allowance – full details below.
Compliance & Sustainability – with a chance to build, influence and work directly with clients across the business as a key member of the team from start.
You’ll join as significant new requirements take effect across our markets, and help decide how we respond. From day one, you’ll work directly with colleagues across the business, take ownership of varied projects and build practical approaches that work across an international Group.
You’ll develop broad experience across the evolving compliance and sustainability landscape, providing practical legal advice in areas including:
This role will suit someone who wants to work at the heart of the business, collaborate with colleagues across the Group and influence how we manage compliance and sustainability. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute to key decisions, take ownership and shape practical approaches that support how we operate and grow.
We’re looking for someone who:
#HA
Stannah Group is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, identities, and abilities.
We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer. We treat all our job applicants fairly and with respect. Our employees are the heart of our business.
We take great care to create a working environment where everyone feels valued. Join our team and be a part of our diverse and inclusive community!
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive high numbers of applications for the role.
Appropriate right to work must be held by applicants. Sponsorship is not available.

Our experience within the lift industry is virtually unsurpassed. In the 1860s, Joseph Stannah began making lifts to move ships' cargo, and today, over 150 years on, our business covers all types of products and services to enable the movement of people and goods.
Fifth-generation members of the Stannah family manage the company and still uphold the traditional family values of quality and service that Joseph started all those years ago.
We are a global market leader of stairlifts and homelifts, since 1975.
We're also the UK’s leading independent supplier of lift products supplying goods as diverse as goods & service lifts, passenger & platform lifts, escalators & moving walkways, homelifts and, of course, stairlifts.
Our engineers maintain, service, repair, refurbish, modernise, remove and replace all types of lift products, stairlifts, escalators & moving walkways from all manufacturers.
We work in all market sectors, from keeping people in their homes around the world, and in the U.K. providing dumbwaiters in restaurants, platform lifts to enable access for all in every public building, to major escalator and lift installations for railway stations.
Be part of our success story.