Property Lawyer

at  ASDA

“EVERYTHING YOU’LL LOVE.”

• Hybrid and flexible working – everyone is looking for that work/life balance and Asda have it on point. Flexible working meaning you work where it works to meet both your needs and the business needs.
• Discretionary bonus – Rewarding you for your hard work and efforts.
• Company Pension Scheme matched to a limit – Looking forward to the future.
• Minimum 24 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank holidays – Making sure you take time for yourself and switch off.
• 4 weekly pay – which means you get an extra payday a year.
• Digital GP and Wellbeing sessions – Asda genuinely cares so we create a culture where our people can perform at their best, the physical health and mental wellbeing of all our people is very important to us.
• Discount off your shopping at Asda and George - with extra discounts running throughout the year – really makes a difference, saving the colleagues an average of £700 a year.
• Career development and apprenticeship and graduate schemes - we want our colleagues to excel and grow with our business.
• Free city centre parking – you can also use it outside working hours.
  Plus, much more!

This position is a role with full accountability for the day to day support on property contracts, terminations and contract management as well as leading process improvement projects. You would support one of the Senior Managers who is responsible for the legal advice for the Property Function.

• Manage external legal team on specific outsourced projects (where relevant)
• Engage with stakeholders who input to the contracts e.g. Info Sec, Privacy, Finance
• Accountable for the legal advice for each matter assigned to the role, with support from the SM responsible for the Business Unit, including:-
• Advice on how to best structure arrangements with external suppliers;
• The negotiation and drafting of the legal documentation to support those arrangements;
• Continuous improvement and best in class contract advice
• Idea generation and implementation of (where appropriate) legal self-service goals
• Maintaining MI and one version of the truth contracts repository in respect of those contracts assigned to the role.
• Supporting corporate governance for all contracts assigned to the role.
• Attending project meetings (where required)
• Leading regular project manager level calls to touch in on all contracts and/or the pipeline
• Providing input to legal processes and standard documents
• Ensuring legal advice is delivered in a timely, clear and accessible way and gives appropriate weight to the business unit’s commercial requirements and aims
• Partners with project managers and stakeholders to deliver the business unit’s legal requirements.“Let’s find out about you.”
• Experience of providing legal advice on commercial contracts or a complementary area of law e.g. corporate, litigation, etc .
• A track record of delivering contracts to project timelines
• Ability to work cross-functionally and ensure engagement of stakeholders
• Ability to overlay legal issues in an accessible way and taking into account the commercial requirement