Overview
Senior Legal Manager Digital & Technology – Leeds, LS11 5AD
Job Title
Senior Legal Manager Digital & Technology
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
26 February 2026
“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
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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:
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Discretionary company bonus
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Company pension up 1.5 times colleagues’ contribution (Max 15%)
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Company Car allowance of £8000
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15% colleague discount in store and online
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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.
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Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
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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
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
