Buying Assistant Administration

The National Buying Administration team is looking for a Legal Assistant to support supplier onboarding and contracting. Reporting to the Buying Manager Administration, you'll be responsible for managing and optimising supplier contracts.

In this role, you'll review, negotiate, and amend contracts to ensure they reflect commercial terms while protecting the company's legal and operational interests. You'll work closely with Buying colleagues and external legal teams, serving as a key contact for contract-related matters and ensuring alignment with business goals and regulatory requirements.

A key part of your role will be to support the onboarding of new suppliers from a contractual perspective. This includes preparing and issuing standard and bespoke agreements, ensuring compliance with internal policies, and guiding new suppliers through the contract process to ensure timely and accurate execution. You'll help establish a smooth contractual foundation that supports strong, long-term supplier relationships.

You'll also help manage contract renewals and variations, resolve legal queries, and identify and mitigate contractual risks. Additionally, you'll support improvements to contract management processes, including maintaining accurate records, enhancing workflows, updating templates, and helping implement digital tools.

This role requires a strong commercial mindset, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to balance legal considerations with business needs. Your work will be key to ensuring our supplier arrangements are clear, compliant, and built to support sustainable growth.

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Your New Role

• Draft, review, and negotiate supplier contracts, including supply agreements, amendments, and addenda
• Ensure contracts comply with legal requirements and company policies
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to align contract terms with business needs
• Manage contract lifecycle and track key obligations, milestones, and renewal dates
• Provide legal guidance on contractual risks and mitigation strategies
• Support dispute resolution and contract enforcement, when necessary
• Draft legal documents, when necessary
• Maintain accurate and organized contract records and documentation
• Flexibility of covering an array of different topics whilst having a specific area of responsibility
• Completing any other ad hoc tasks required

About You

• Strong commercial acumen
• Degree in Law (LLB or equivalent)
• Experience in commercial contracts, preferably in the retail, FMCG, or grocery sector
• Excellent communication skills, able to interact confidently colleagues at all levels
• Experience drafting various legal documents including contracts and letters of variation
• Ability to manage and build relationships with both internal and external stakeholders at all levels
• Have a strong understanding of contract law and supply chain agreements
• Be excellent at drafting and negotiation
• Ability to manage a varied workload
• Confident with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Excellent attention to detail and time management skills
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise and multi task efficiently
• Ability to understand and anticipate needs to ensure appropriate outcomes
• Pro-active with communications and manages expectations on delivery
• Ability to proactively work towards challenging deadlines through multitasking and resilience
• Able to work efficiently and deliver against short deadlines
• Can deliver solutions autonomously
• High levels of initiative and proactivity
• Intellectually curious and takes initiative
• Highly organised

Desirable

• Employment Law Experience
• Have experience working with contract management systems

What You'll get in Return

• Starting salary £36,625 rising to £42,770
• Monday to Friday, 8am to 4:30pm, with the opportunity of 2 days a week remote working
• 5 weeks' annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• In office flexi-time
• Full training provided
• Pension scheme
• Private employee medical insurance after 4 years
• Company sick pay scheme
• Company maternity, paternity and adoption pay after 1 year
• Long service rewards
• Access to MyBenefits, where you can find a wide range of benefits, including our bike to work scheme, shopping and cinema discounts, health cash plan, a FREE will, travel and discounted gym memberships, as well as a host of benefits to support your financial and wellbeing needs.

• Access to a free,24/7, confidential virtual GP service for all Aldi Colleagues and their children (under the age of 16)

• You'll need to live within 90 minutes of your main working location

Aldi is an equal opportunities employer. We're committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive workforce and are dedicated to promoting a culture of inclusion, providing an environment in which collaboration, respect and fairness are essential. We value diversity and are dedicated to treating all of our colleagues and prospective colleagues fairly and with respect.

• Please be aware that this role does not fulfil the requirements for visa sponsorship

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