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Product Counsel
Job Reference tesco/TP/10823140/626658
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What’s in it for you
We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work. These include but aren’t limited to:
- Annual bonus scheme
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus 8 Bank holidays)
- On-site state of the art gym at our Welwyn Campus with discounted “Gympass” membership & free health checks via Nuffield Health
- Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
- Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
- Share Schemes – Join our ‘Buy As You Earn’ & ‘Save As You Earn’ share schemes after 3 months service
- Colleague Clubcard (including a 2nd card for a family member) after 3 months service
- Colleague Discounts:
- 10% increasing to 15% after every pay day for a four day period, off most purchases at Tesco
- 10% off One Stop
- 10% off pay monthly & SIM only deals with Tesco Mobile
- 20% off all F&F purchases
- 20% off car, pet and home insurance at Tesco bank. T&C’s apply
- 25% off Tesco Café
- 50% off complete glasses purchases & free eye tests (other offers available) at Vision Express
- 50% off health checks at Tesco Pharmacy
- An exclusive deals and discounts website saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for the home
- Cycle to work scheme
- Shuttle Bus Service to/from Welwyn Garden City Station to Welwyn Campus
- Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want
- Our Employee Assistance Programme helps you deal with life’s challenges
- Financial wellness - Tesco has partnered with experts to help you make the most of your money
- Get involved in a range of fundraising activities with our long-term charity partners
About the role
As a Product Counsel, you will work on a broad range of legal matters for our Product team, influencing key partners and providing commercial and legally robust solutions.
This role is to balance legal risk and commercial benefit and to provide timely and clear legal advice that is solution-driven. The role involves a good breadth of work as well as the opportunity to work autonomously. We are looking for someone who is able to get under the skin of a captivating business as a go-to business lawyer for our UK Food business.
You will be responsible for
- Spotting legal issues, and providing creative and solutions-orientated legal advice and direction, collaborating with our specialists (e.g. Privacy and Competition lawyers) where necessary.
- Advising management on risks, sophisticated agreement structures and company policies.
- Negotiating and handling a range of high value contracts including: concessions; licensing arrangements; wholesale agreements and supply and distribution agreements.
- Supporting Product to embed their ethics and compliance agenda.
- Supporting on dispute resolution, such as the investigation of claims from suppliers, including research into the matter and review of supporting evidence to assess the strength of a claim, drafting correspondence and entering into settlement agreements (poor performance, product quality issues, insolvency etc).
- Developing and delivering training to the teams.
- Providing regulatory advice (including GCSOP) and horizon scanning emerging issues likely to impact our businesses, and mitigate their risk through consultations and influencing.
- Seeking opportunities to simplify our ways of working, for example by developing standard templates and co-ordinating the sharing of knowledge.
You will need
To be a Qualified lawyer, with a wide variety of commercial experience, preferably in an in-house environment. We are looking for someone with an in-depth knowledge of the contract regulatory and legislative landscape, who is able to explain complex concepts to business colleagues in simple terms and influence partners positively. You will need to be able to work independently and collaboratively in a collegial, fast-paced environment and comfortable carrying a varied and sometimes unexpected workload.