Legal and Compliance

"Working here provides the opportunity to work with a great team of solicitors and non-solicitors with a wide range of expertise and experience. It’s a large team that deals with legal challenges, health and safety, data privacy, insurance, corporate governance and risk management. Throughout the day we provide advice to enable our colleagues and directors to make decisions with the confidence that they are acting within legislation and good business practice.”

David Thompson, Data Protection Officer.

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The nature of our business means that the work we do is high profile, interesting, challenging and diverse. As a result, we operate as a world-class legal team, integral to the success of the business. We're really clear about our purpose and the direction we're heading in. Our vision is to be one global team, enabling business growth, enhancing the Tesco brand, and serving customers at the heart of everything we do.

We employ many different specialists within our legal department, who manage a wide range of teams focusing on many different areas. You’ll be providing commercial legal advice to Tesco’s diverse businesses. This includes our Food, Procurement, Clothing, General Merchandise, and Digital teams. Essentially, you’ll be dealing with all the legal issues that a retailer could face day-to-day.

As well as drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, you’ll advise strategically on legal matters including contract interpretation, compliance, e-commerce, intellectual property, data protection, dispute resolution, and competition law.

We develop excellent people who work collaboratively to add real value. We enable business growth by providing practical, commercial advice. We deliver operational excellence, driving efficiency locally and globally. We look to the future through identifying opportunities and providing proactive solutions to long-term challenges.

Working in Legal and Compliance

The nature of our business means that the work we do is high profile, interesting, challenging and diverse. As a result, we operate as a world-class legal team, integral to the success of the business. We're really clear about our purpose and the direction we're heading in. Our vision is to be one global team, enabling business growth, enhancing the Tesco brand, and serving customers at the heart of everything we do.

Nature of business

We employ many different specialists within our legal department, who manage a wide range of teams focusing on many different areas. You’ll be providing commercial legal advice to Tesco’s diverse businesses. This includes our Food, Procurement, Clothing, General Merchandise, and Digital teams. Essentially, you’ll be dealing with all the legal issues that a retailer could face day-to-day.

Range of teams

As well as drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, you’ll advise strategically on legal matters including contract interpretation, compliance, e-commerce, intellectual property, data protection, dispute resolution, and competition law.

Legal strategy

We develop excellent people who work collaboratively to add real value. We enable business growth by providing practical, commercial advice. We deliver operational excellence, driving efficiency locally and globally. We look to the future through identifying opportunities and providing proactive solutions to long-term challenges.

What we do

Our Location

Working in Gresham House

Our head office is based in Gresham House, in the heart of Dun Laoghaire, a well-known suburban seaside town in the south of Dublin. The location is very well connected and accessible to the greater Dublin area with its proximity to the M50 motorway and the varying forms of public transport including bus and rail that run from and through Dun Laoghaire.

Gresham House

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