Senior Legal Counsel: Property (Part Time)
| Posting date: | 12 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 28 March 2025 |
| Location: | Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 1GA |
| Company: | Tesco |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/17526920/931309 |
Summary
About the role
The Senior Property Counsel will report to the Head of Legal – Property & Transformation and will collaborate closely with the Property, Legal, and wider operational and support teams across Tesco Group. This role requires demonstrating legal expertise to contribute to and support the delivery of Tesco Property\'s strategy and operational objectives!
You will be responsible for
- Provide commercially minded legal advice and mentorship to the business on all areas of property law.
- Review all types of property documents and advise on risks and issues across all areas of the Property plan (including acquisitions, disposals, asset management).
- Partnering with colleagues from the Tesco Property and Legal teams to ensure property matters are addressed in a timely and risk-balanced manner to meet business requirements.
- Support on Property governance including input into board papers.
- Working together with external law firms to share knowledge and standard process to ensure the efficient delivery of property legal services to the business.
- Ensure that all external legal advice is provided in an efficient way, including the negotiation and management of external legal fees.
- Management of relevant property policies and processes, including any property related compliance training
- Support with the development of our property legal capability in India.
You will need
- Qualified Real Estate Lawyer (5year PQE+)
- Excellent technical and interpersonal skills.
- Solid understanding of litigation, planning/construction law, employment law and competition law a plus.
- Experience in instructing external counsel and specialist lawyers where applicable.
- Outstanding stakeholder management.
- A commercial, practical and innovative outlook.
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What’s in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!
- 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 us
Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues.
It’s part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we’re proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year.
We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.
But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business.
We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers
Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.
For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com
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