Joining Sainsbury's as a Commercial Lawyer offers the opportunity to be part of a high-performing Legal Services Department. With exposure to a wide range of commercial agreements and the chance to engage with senior stakeholders, you will have the platform to utilise your negotiation skills, contribute to the development of legal precedents, and stay abreast of emerging areas in commercial law. Through collaboration, ongoing personal development, and a commitment to excellence, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring that the company's core commercial agreements and processes align with its strategic objectives, while also fostering a positive and inclusive working culture.
What you'll do
As a Commercial Lawyer at Sainsbury's, you will play a crucial role in delivering high-quality legal support within the Commercial Law Team, engaging with various departments across the Sainsbury's Group to ensure effective legal processes in commercial agreements and procurement activities. Your responsibilities will include providing pragmatic and timely advice to support Group objectives, proactively managing commercial law risks, developing negotiation skills, and contributing to the development of commercial law precedents and standards. Additionally, you will stay abreast of emerging legal areas such as technology and Artificial Intelligence, collaborate with stakeholders, and engage in ongoing personal development to enhance your legal expertise and effectiveness within the team.
Who you are
As a Commercial Lawyer, you are a qualified legal professional, possessing sound knowledge of commercial agreement principles and a proactive approach to providing pragmatic and commercially-focused legal advice. Expertise in Technology related contracts and knowledge of SaaS is highly desirable. With excellent communication and drafting skills, you excel in building strong relationships with senior stakeholders, collaborating effectively with internal teams, and demonstrating a commitment to ongoing personal development. Your ability to work under pressure, display confidence, proactively help on related areas displaying curiosity and agility, and exhibit valued behaviours make you a valuable asset in delivering successful outcomes for the high-performing Commercial Law Team and contributing to the legal support across various areas of the Sainsbury's Group.
Responsibilities:
We'd all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That's waiting for you at Sainsbury's. Corporate Services is made up of specialist teams, namely Legal, Information Security, Safety & Insurance, and Company Secretary & Share Management. While they're distinct areas, we all deal with risk. So that covers how we identify risk to the business, people, stakeholders and shareholders, how we assess and evaluate the impact of risks, and how do we mitigate them or even accept them. What makes us different is that we have real exposure to other specialisms; we don't operate in a silo and can move laterally into other opportunities. We also have an amazing leadership team - which is 50% women - and a genuine passion for Sainsbury's as a brand and as a place to be. Which makes this a place where you should be.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you'll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there's always the chance to try something new - whether that's as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we'll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury's every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.
Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.
Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks' pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks' pay for paternity leave.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
About Us: Sainsbury's company vision
Our vision is to be the most trusted retailer, where people love to work and shop. That means harnessing the talent, creativity and diversity of our colleagues to ensure that customers receive great service every time they shop with us.
If you would like to hear more about our vision and values, be sure to visit our corporate page.
We invest in training, development and multiple initiatives to ensure our teams feel enabled to offer the best shopping experience to our customers and that Sainsbury's is truly a 'Great Place to Work'.