Paralegal - in-house property support - Asda

Deadline: 16 November 2024

"Everything about Asda"

We are a values-led organisation. As such we, encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone's input.

Our collaborative culture, the size of our business and our belief in the empowerment of the individual means opportunities at Asda are abundant.

We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles over 2 million transactions a month. We have more than 145,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do.

“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!

“That's more like it.”

“Find your role”

This position forms day to day support on property matters including licences, simple contracts and contract and transaction management. You would support one of the Senior Managers who is responsible for working with the Property Function.

Your day will involve engaging with stakeholders within the Property Function who input to the contracts e.g. Property, Planning, Construction with support from the SM responsible for the Property Function. This will include:

• Advice on how to best structure arrangements.
• The negotiation and drafting of the legal documentation to support those arrangements.
• Continuous improvement and best in class contract advice
• 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)
• 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
• Partner 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 property matters
• 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 requirements 

“Find your everything at Asda” - bringing brighter living within everyone's reach.

We are passionate about creating a diverse and inclusive workforce, representative of the communities we serve, and are creating ways to inspire diverse talent to join Asda.

Work Where it Works

Our hybrid way of working gives you the choice to work where it works.  This enables you to chose where you’ll be the most effective.  It offers a mix of working from home and in an office environment that works best for you and your team. You will also get an excellent benefits package including;-

•    Discretionary company bonus
•    Company pension up to 7% matched
•    10% colleague discount, free parking and many additional rewards.
 
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.