Legal and Safety Coordinator

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you here at Sainsbury’s. For a FTSE business, we move incredibly fast. When we’re not leading projects, we’re supporting teams across the wider group to achieve their goals. And here, you can see the impact of your work as soon as you walk into a store, giving you a real sense of purpose and responsibility. Better still, the team around you will listen to your ideas and opinions, and you’ll have every chance to try something new. The scale and complexity of our business mean there’s always something new to learn, and we’ll support you every step of the way. We’re trusted to get on with it. So get ready to make things happen.

Why join us

You will have the opportunity to work alongside diverse teams, providing crucial support in legal and governance matters related to property construction and project delivery. With a focus on simplifying processes, improving governance, and reducing risk, you will play a key role in driving compliance, supporting colleagues, and contributing to the overall success of the business. If you are passionate about making a difference, building strong relationships, and championing excellence in contract management and health and safety practises, we offer a rewarding and dynamic environment where your skills and expertise can truly shine.

What you’ll do

You’ll manage and maintain the Property HighQ Legal Contracting System and associated governance platforms, facilitating the coordination of legal contract queries between various internal departments and external legal support. You will provide commercial, legal, and governance support to Project Managers and Property Leadership teams, ensuring compliance with legal requirements, managing contract lifecycle administration, and overseeing health and safety protective uniform requirements for our Property delivery teams. Your responsibilities will also include maintaining accurate records of contract performance, developing reporting dashboards for contracts and project governance metrics, and analysing operational data to identify trends, risks, and process improvements to support informed decision-making and effective project delivery.

Who you are

Ideally, you have a strong background in contract administration, governance, and compliance management within the property construction and project delivery sector.

You’re a detail-oriented professional with experience fostering strong working relationships across cross-functional teams. With advanced skills in Microsoft Office applications, data analysis, and reporting, you have the ability to interpret complex data, drive operational efficiency, and support decision-making processes.

Expertise in health and safety legislation, along with relevant qualifications in legal and governance, would be advantageous.

Essential criteria

• Proven experience in administration, including maintaining accurate records and coordinating contract queries.
• Demonstrable experience within a project, construction, property or operational environment.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, specifically Excel.
• Ability to analyse data to identify trends, risks and improvement opportunities.
• Evidence of working effectively with multiple stakeholders across different teams to coordinate activities, resolve queries and support project delivery.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform.

Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.

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 our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).