Senior Legal Counsel - Online

What’s in it for you

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

About the role

Open to full time or part time applications

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

You will be a Legal Business Partner advising on all online and digital matters for the Group's UK businesses and in particular support the Online Directors a to help drive competitiveness and business objectives. Through commercially focussed partnerships, you will influence key stakeholders and provide commercial and legally robust solutions to deliver our strategy effectively and within the Group's risk appetite.

You will be responsible for

• Being a strategic business partner to our Online business to drive competitiveness and business objectives
• Advising on a broad range of strategic legal projects (e.g. scaling of recently launched Marketplace and on demand services such as Whoosh)
• You will own and oversee all advice to the Online business. You will identify and advise on general commercial matters but also privacy, marketing and competition law issues collaborating in the background with our centres of excellence where necessary.
• You will work to become a centre of excellence on consumer law as it applies to online sales.
• Horizon scan emerging issues likely to impact our businesses, and mitigate their risk through consultations and influencing
• Thinking "outside of the box" to give practical and innovative commercial solutions to problems
• Support Online to embed its ethics and compliance agenda, including developing and delivering training and designing blueprints for new risks
• Developing the capabilities of less experienced members of the Team and providing direction and advice to them and acting as escalation for strategic legal issues
• Delivering the Group Legal Vision 2026 Transformation, evolving legal processes across Commercial (for example, implementing simplified engagement processes through a legal intake form) with the use of technology and driving simplification and automation

You will need

• A high degree of commercial acumen and curiosity
• Strong general commercial experience, ideally in an in-house environment
• In-depth knowledge of the regulatory and legislative landscape
• The ability to explain complex concepts to business colleagues in simple terms and influence stakeholders positively
• To Work independently and collaboratively in a collegial, fast-paced team environment
• To be comfortable carrying a varied and sometimes unpredictable workload

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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.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.