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Senior Legal Counsel - Online
Latest roles - Legal
Senior Legal Counsel - Online
We employ colleagues from many specialisms - both lawyers and non-lawyers at various stages of their career and with very different backgrounds.
Working in Legal
The nature of Tesco means that our work is high-profile, interesting, challenging and diverse. Because of this, we operate as a world-class Legal team, integral to the success of the business. We're really clear about our purpose and the direction we're heading in. Our vision is to be one global team, enabling business growth and enhancing the Tesco brand. Serving customers is at the heart of everything we do.
We're focused on developing excellent people who work collaboratively to add real value. We enable business growth by providing practical, commercial advice. Delivering operational excellence, driving efficiency locally and globally. Managing risk and reputation, making sure that we use our scale for good. We look to the future by identifying opportunities and providing proactive solutions to long-term challenges.
We employ many different specialists, both lawyers and non-lawyers and have a wide range of teams focusing on a variety of areas. You’ll be providing commercial legal advice to Tesco’s diverse businesses. This includes our Food, Procurement, F&F, General Merchandise and Digital teams.
You’ll be dealing with all the legal issues that a global retailer could face from day-to-day. As well as drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, you’ll advise strategically on legal matters including contract interpretation, e-commerce, intellectual property, data protection, and dispute resolution and competition law.
Our Legal team’s aim is: “To protect our colleagues and our business, grow sales and enhance the Tesco brand.” This aligns with Tesco’s core purpose and the business’ wider strategy and vision.
We regularly volunteer and fundraise for charities and projects within our local communities, including a dedicated 'community week' for colleagues and pro bono work for Islington Law Centre.
Our colleagues get involved in a whole range of different sports, social and networking activities, including 5-a-side football, cricket matches against our supplier law firms, running club, quizzes, walks, pub lunches, drinks and our Women in Legal network.
Our location
Omega – Welwyn Garden City
Omega – Welwyn Garden City
This building name is inspired by the pioneering work of the team which developed Clubcard – one of the most important retail innovations of the 20th century. Our Marketing, Communications, Tesco Mobile, Hospitality and Business Development teams are based here and there is bicycle parking, a car wash and fuel pump.
Maldon – Welwyn Garden City
This building's name is inspired by our first self-service supermarket which opened in a converted cinema in Maldon in 1956. Our Finance, Procurement and Legal and Security teams are based here and there is a restaurant, bicycle parking, and dry cleaning drop off service, as well as it being the location for our Grocery Click and Collect service.
Plus – Welwyn Garden City
This building is inspired by one of our most innovative technology projects – Plus. In 1987 we introduced our first computerised tills to scan products. Our Technology team are based here and there is a restaurant, bicycle parking, dry cleaning drop off service, Click and Collect for Tesco Direct products and post office facilities.
Checkout – Welwyn Garden City
This building name is inspired by Operation Checkout, one of our most iconic price campaigns. During an economic downturn in the UK in 1977, we launched massive price cuts to help customers on very tight budgets. Our Food and Quality teams are based here and this is our main building with a restaurant, gym, bicycle parking and showers, dry cleaning drop off service, colleague baby room, cash machine, car charging and post box.
Pear – Welwyn Garden City
This building name is inspired by the project name used during our 2003 acquisition of T & S Stores. Many of these stores were converted to our Express format to help us to build our convenience offer for customers. Our General Merchandise, Supply Chain and Operations teams are based here and there is a restaurant and bicycle parking.
Snowball – Welwyn Garden City
This building's name is inspired by 72 year-old Jane Snowball, who used a television remote to order groceries while sat in her armchair at home. What she and others didn’t realise at the time was that this was the world’s first home online shopping trip. Our Business Support, Customer Fulfillment and Online teams are based here and there is a restaurant, bicycle parking and showers, dry cleaning drop off service and cash machine.
Smile – Welwyn Garden City
This building's name is inspired by Eat Happy which started life with the project name Smile and takes education out of the classroom to show children where their food comes from. Our Human Resources Team is based here and there is a restaurant, bicycle parking and dry cleaning drop off service. This is also the location of our colleague Health and Wellness centre where colleagues can access massage therapists, GP services and beauticians.
Highwoods – Welwyn Garden City
This building's name is inspired by our first ‘out of town’ destination food store, ‘Colchester Highwoods’. Our Pensions, Property, and Maintenance & Engineering teams are based here.
Strawberry - Farringdon
This building's name is inspired by the strawberry icon used by Tesco.com shoppers when we launched online shopping in the late 1990s. Our Digital team is based here.
The Nicholl Building - Dundee Customer Engagement Centre
This building's name was inspired by Mrs Nicholl, a 93 year-old customer who was moved to tears by excellent customer service from Tesco when two colleagues hand-delivered her groceries during bad weather as a ‘wee gift from Tesco’. We have a restaurant, bicycle parking, showers, Click & Collect service, cash machine, garden and games area, as well as colleague kitchens and rest areas on each floor.
Heart - Welwyn Garden City
Our building at the heart of the Welwyn Garden City Campus is now open, providing a new and exciting central hub with flexible spaces to learn, collaborate and innovate. There are facilities for well-being, a customer experience centre and a Tesco Express store.
Working in Welwyn Garden City
Our campus sits just 10 minutes walk from the centre of Welwyn Garden city with its many shops, restaurants, pubs and sports facilities. Close to the A1 and with frequent trains running to Kings Cross in as little as 26 minutes (free shuttle buses take you between the station and office) the campus is well connected to the surrounding area.
