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Senior Legal Counsel - Product
Job Reference tesco/TP/10823140/779231
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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)
- Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
- Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
- Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
- 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
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About the role
We are looking for an individual who will business partner a Commercial Director in Product and work on a broad range of legal matters for our Product team, influencing key collaborators and providing commercial and legally robust solutions.
Your role is to balance legal risk and commercial benefit, 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. You will be able to get under the skin of a fascinating 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.
- Counsel management on risks, complex agreement structures and company policies.
- Providing regulatory advice (including GCSOP) and horizon scan emerging issues likely to impact our businesses, and mitigate their risk through consultations and influencing.
- Brokering and managing a range of strategically important, high risk/value contracts.
- 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 and blueprints design blueprints for new risks.
- 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 Qualified lawyer, with a wide variety of commercial experience
- Have strong general commercial experience, preferably in an in-house environment
- Have in-depth knowledge of the contract regulatory and legislative landscape
- To be able to explain complex concepts to business colleagues in simple terms and influence partners positively
- To work independently and collaboratively in a collegial, fast-paced environment
- To be comfortable carrying a varied and sometimes unexpected workload
About us
Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.
We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.
We have recently announced that we will be moving towards a more blended working week – combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us to about how this can work for you.
NOTE: Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details on your agreed start date.