Senior Legal Manager Digital & TechnologyLegal and Compliance

"Lets find your role"

Do you have strategic leadership experience? Can you demonstrate your ability to provide key strategic legal advice? Can you partner with multiple stakeholders alongside negotiating and delivering GNFR (Goods Not For Resale) contracts?

Here at Asda we have a great opportunity for a Senior Manager Digital and Technology to join the legal team. This is a key strategic role with full accountability to business partner with Technology, E-commerce and Rewards, providing legal strategic advice as well as the negotiation and delivery of GNFR contracts.

As well as demonstrable experience of leading, developing & coaching a team you will:

  • Be accountable for the end-to-end legal advice for defined business areas
  • Advise on how to best structure arrangements with external suppliers
  • Negotiate and draft legal documentation to support those arrangements
  • Continuous improvement and best in class tech contract advice including where appropriate the delivery of the legal self-service goals
  • Maintaining MI and one version of the truth Tech contracts repository
  • Driving transparency whilst focusing on key issues to enable the business to deliver at pace
  • Supporting corporate governance for the defined business areas
  • Develop and implement strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce
  • Partnering with various stakeholders, including VP's, SD's, legal suppliers, legal leadership team and external outsourced digital/tech partners & suppliers

"Let's find out about you"

We're looking for someone with demonstratable strategic legal leadership experience as well as:

  • Experience of running a portfolio of contracts from professional services and resource to cloud based agreements, software licenses agreements and software ownership
  • A track record of delivering contracts to project timelines
  • An inspirational leader who can demonstrate service experience, team leadership and change management

Everything you'll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

  • Discretionary company bonus

  • Company pension up 1.5 times colleagues' contribution (Max 15%)

  • Company Car allowance of £8000

  • 15% colleague discount in store and online

  • Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.

  • Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated

  • Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

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

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Rewards and Recognition

Benefits you’ll only find here

10% off Asda pet insurance

10% off selected Asda Pharmacy services

10% off Asda Tyres

10% off Asda Travel insurance

20% off Asda Mobile bundles

Free remote GP service

Available to you, your partner and your children, 24/7, year round.

Pension

Save for retirement with contributions paid into your pension account by you and Asda.

Free physiotherapy consultations

Helping you and your partner take care of yourselves with 8 free sessions per year.

Colleague discounts

15% off at our stores - get discounts on groceries and George all year round.

Car cash allowance

Eligible colleagues will receive a cash allowance as part of their benefits package. In addition, all salaried colleagues can choose to register for the Salary Sacrifice Electric Car scheme*.

(*Conditions apply)

Mortgage advice

Whether you’re a first-time buyer, renewing your mortgage, looking at buy to lets, or simply after some advice in getting a mortgage, get free* unbiased advice through the Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB), one the UKs largest mortgage brokers.

Confidential support helpline

Find free emotional, practical, and financial support that’s fully confidential, through a helpline that’s available 24/7, year round.

Cycle to work

Buy a bike through this scheme and save on tax and national insurance.

Financial support

Find financial wellbeing tools and support, including the ability to stream your pay.

Free eye tests

Head to our in store opticians for a free checkup and take care of your vision.

Bonus

Sharing our success with a discretionary bonus scheme for salaried colleagues that really rewards your contributions.

Cancer support

Guidance and support for you and your family, from before diagnosis, to treatment and beyond.

Paid time off

From holiday to sick leave and other types of leave, such as parental leave.

Mental health support

Access free mental health support for you and your family.

Support and advice with care

If you’re supporting older family or friends with care and support, find free, confidential information, expert support, and guidance about later life care for your loved ones through the Legal & General Care Concierge service.

Hybrid working

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots

Save money on every day spends

Access to hundreds of high-street discounted Vouchers, discounts on days out, gym memberships, airport parking, and more

Setting your loved ones up for the future

As part of the team, you’ll get life assurance.

Guaranteed contracted hours

All colleagues are guaranteed weekly contracted hours / guaranteed weekly shifts via their contract of employment which is agreed with the hiring manager.

Holiday buying

Once a year our salaried colleagues are able to buy up to 5 additional days holiday via salary sacrifice (subject to eligibility).

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Our commitment to the Armed Forces

Here at Asda, we’re dedicated to helping the Armed Forces rediscover their everything after service. We guarantee interviews for people who have left service and meet the minimum criteria for a role, provide leave for reservists’ training, support for cadet training, and employment opportunities for their partners. And that’s why we have over a thousand new colleagues from the Armed Forces Service Leaver Community join us every year.

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Legal and Compliance roles

Partnering across the business to share their legal & safety expertise with all our teams, from the shop and depot floor to the boardroom, our Legal & Compliance teams make everything work, the right way.

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There’s massive opportunity for people to come in and really grasp it, own it, and evolve processes to make us a successful legal team that's fit for the future

Graeme,

Senior Legal Director - Commercial

Work where it works

Here at Asda, we think that the best way to work is to do it where it works best. That’s why all of our teams who are able to work from home, work with each other to figure out a pattern that works for you all, and the business needs. So you can get the most out of work, whether that’s at home, the office, or both.

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Meet The Recruiter

Jordan Godward-Roper

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Head Office

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I recruit for Head Office.

A bit about me and my role...
I have been with Asda since 2022, and I am the Talent Partner for - Legal & Compliance, Property and Wholesale & Convenience, eCommerce, NPD & Technical and Strategy & Transformation.

A fun fact about me...
I am a godparent to 8 children!

My favourite Asda product is...
Asda Extra Special Montepulciano D' Abruzzo Red Wine

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