Legal Job | Lead – Legal Counsel – Litigation at Tesco [Hybrid]: Apply by Mar 31

About Tesco

At Tesco, diversity and inclusion are described as important aspects of its workplace approach. The company states that it aims to treat individuals fairly and with respect, while recognising differences in backgrounds and perspectives.

Tesco indicates that it seeks to create an environment in which employees feel comfortable being themselves at work and are supported in their roles. It also emphasises the importance of reflecting the diversity of the communities in which it operates and notes that its workforce contributes to the organisation’s overall performance.

About the Job

This role will report into Tesco’s legal team based in Bengaluru and support Tesco’s UK-based Tesco’s Heads of Legal for Litigation and Employment (UK), predominantly in

relation to mass action litigation. The role will also support Litigation work streams, including liaising with internal stakeholders and external lawyers/advisors.

Eligibility

• Excellent project management skills and ability to manage numerous projects
• 5+ years’ experience, preferably at a leading law firm or legal outsourcing firm.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with excellent attention to detail
• Strong interpersonal skills and highly team-oriented, with the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders across all parts of the business.
• A readiness to work on a broad range of matters and develop your knowledge of the business quickly.
• The ability to work independently and cross-functionally under pressure.
• Good expertise in Litigation support in a multinational organisation/LPO

Responsibilities

Following their Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence, they have these specific risk responsibilities:

Mass action litigation:

You will work closely with Tesco’s UK-based Heads of Legal for Litigation and Employment, and Tesco’s external solicitors, producing written work and updates to both teams. This will include:

• Horizon scanning (including press and social media searches) and preparing regular (daily) summaries of relevant updates.
• Updating and maintaining trackers with details of claims brought, withdrawn or amended and preparing monthly status updates.
• Renewing annual document hold notice distribution; updating and maintaining document preservation trackers with details of internal document custodians, in-scope systems and third parties who hold documents relevant to the claim. Responding to ad hoc internal queries re same.
• Monitoring internal mailbox for business queries relating to the Equal Pay litigation and preservation of documents relevant to the claim.
• Reviewing and running searches against internal documents to fact-find in response to queries and prepare summaries of findings.
• Making internal inquiries within Tesco to answer factual questions from external solicitors and reporting back to the solicitor team.

Wider Litigation support

• Information and document gathering from internal Tesco stakeholders in response to queries from the business and external lawyers/advisors.
• Preparing and distributing Document Preservation Notices for new and ongoing matters, maintaining a tracker of responses and leading annual refreshers.
• Investigating and resolving bailiff letters, warrants of control and other low-value payment demands (with supervision from the Group Litigation team).
• Horizon scanning and sharing internal updates re relevant litigation and retail industry news.
• Contributing to the maintenance of legal templates, process-maps and best-practice guides.

Salary

Your fixed pay is the guaranteed pay as per your contract of employment.

Mode

Hybrid

Location

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India  

Last Date To Apply

Apply by 31-Mar-2026

Application Procedure

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