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Corporate Services is made up of specialist teams, namely Legal, Occupational Health, Safety & Insurance, and Company Secretary & Share Management.
Full Time or Part Time (4 days minimum)
Hybrid – Holborn and Home
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Commercial Lawyer offers the opportunity to be part of a high-performing Legal Services Department for a FTSE100 retailer where you can grow your career and expand your skills. With exposure to a wide range of commercial agreements across Sainsbury’s supermarkets, health and beauty, Argos, Habitat, Tu Clothing, SmartCharge and Nectar businesses, you will have the platform to learn, support strategically significant contracts, and gain deep understanding of the grocery, FMCG and retail industry. We are looking for a driven individual who will thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment supporting the company's core commercial agreements that will transform and grow our business.
What You'll Do
As a Commercial Lawyer at Sainsbury's, you will play a crucial role in delivering high-quality legal support to businesses and functions across the Sainsbury's Group to enable strategic commercial agreements and procurement activities. You will provide pragmatic and timely advice, improve contract negotiations with key suppliers, establish and deliver precedents, processes and standards, stay abreast of emerging legal issues in technology and AI, collaborate with stakeholders, and drive your own professional development.
Essential Criteria
* Qualified legal professional with demonstrable experience managing a range of commercial and technology contracts. Candidates with 3+ years PQE are likely to have the required skills.
* Proven ability to deliver pragmatic, commercially focused legal advice grounded in contracting principles.
* Practical knowledge of SaaS, platform, and cloud-based agreements, including outsourcing and procurement contracts, with familiarity in liability, AI clauses, service levels, intellectual property, and data protection.
* Evidenced capability in drafting legal documents using clear, concise, and accessible language.
* Demonstrable ability to manage multiple priorities effectively within a collaborative team environment.
Benefits
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 up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance. You may be eligible for private healthcare, performance‑related bonus up to 20% of salary, pension scheme, life cover, colleague discount (10% after 4 weeks, 15% every Friday and Saturday, 15% at Argos pay day).
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 benefits (note length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Seniority: Mid‑Senior Level | Employment: Full‑time | Job function: Legal | Industries: Retail.
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