Professional Support Lawyer - Property Senior Counsel
| Posting date: | 20 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 07 December 2025 |
| Location: | Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 1GA |
| Company: | Tesco |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/17526920/969117 |
Summary
About the role
As the Professional Support Lawyer within Tesco’s in-house Property Group Legal team, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing legal knowledge, driving compliance, and supporting strategic initiatives across the UK and offshore teams. Reporting to the Head of Legal – Property & Transformation, you’ll work closely with Legal, Property, and operational stakeholders to deliver high-quality legal support and training, helping shape the future of Tesco’s real estate legal capability.
You will be responsible for
- Conducting thorough legal research on real estate laws and regulations across all UK jurisdictions, keeping Legal and Property stakeholders informed of changes in UK real estate law and market best practices.
- Working with external law firms to maintain a comprehensive database of legal precedents, templates, playbooks, and other resources that reflect the business’s strategic priorities and risk appetite.
- Collaborating with external law firms to share knowledge and best practices.
- Preparing and delivering internal training sessions for Legal colleagues and Property stakeholders on relevant real estate topics and developments.
- Reviewing and assessing externally sourced colleague training programmes to ensure best value and quality of content.
- Managing property-related policies and processes, including compliance training.
- Providing ongoing real estate legal support and guidance to in-house Property lawyers.
- Leading the development of our in-house UK real estate legal capability based in India, including:
- Refining, managing, and delivering a performance and matter management matrix to ensure the timely and effective delivery of offshore legal services.
- Designing and implementing a colleague Capability Development Pathway.
- Co-ordinating and contributing to the day-to-day transactional supervision and support of our UK real estate legal team located in India.
You will need
- Qualified UK Real Estate Lawyer (5 years PQE+).
- Prior experience in a PSL role (in-house or private practice) preferred, but not essential.
- In-depth knowledge of UK real estate law and regulations.
- Strong understanding of UK contract law and property transactions.
- Proficiency in legal research tools and databases.
- Ability to analyse complex legal issues and provide practical solutions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, demonstrating an ability to convey complex legal concepts in a clear and concise manner.
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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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