Time left to apply End Date: January 31, 2025 (9 days left to apply)
job requisition id R-047448
Job Title
Senior Employment Lawyer
Location
Asda House
Employment Type
Full time
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours per Week
37.5
Salary
Competitive Salary plus benefits
Category
Professional Lawyers
Closing Date
30 January 2025
“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
* 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
“Find your role”
Do you have an employment law background, with broad and deep experience of employment law related issues? Do you want the opportunity to innovate and influence approaches to strategic change initiatives?
You will have a direct influence on Asda’s approach to business change initiatives with potential people implications. In this way you will play a part in the delivery of Asda’s strategic priorities and people policy development.
Your Role:
A key business partner, providing solutions focused employment law advice on all aspects of UK employment law.
Working closely with Asda’s People Team and other internal stakeholders to implement business change projects and people policy developments, you will build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and develop people focused solutions.
Reporting to Asda’s Senior Legal Director – Employment, Regulatory, Claims and Insurance and working with the in house employment law team, you will also work on some contentious employment law matters and sometimes manage external counsel.
“Let's find out about you”
* You will be legally qualified with 6 – 10 years PQE
* Experience in both contentious and non-contentious employment law matters gained, ideally, in an established in-house legal team or a leading private practice firm
* Employment tribunal case management experience
* You must have demonstrable experience of the application of employment law in a fast-moving commercial context
* You will have good commercial acumen and communication and influencing skills
* Employment law experience in a retail context would be preferable but not necessary
“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 choose 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
* £8,000 company car or car allowance
* Company pension 1.5 times colleagues contribution (Max 15%)
* 10% colleague discount, free parking and many additional rewards.
About You
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.
time left to apply End Date: January 28, 2025 (6 days left to apply)
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