Overview
Salary Details: Competitive
Location: Century House Brunel Road Wakefield 41 Industrial Estate
Job Reference: cardfac/TP/1875117/30224
Are you an experienced legal real estate professional ready for your next role?
We’re looking for a strategic thinker to head our commercial real estate legal function across the UK and ROI. This hybrid role, based two days a week in our Wakefield head office, offers the opportunity to shape the legal framework of our retail stores, depots, manufacturing sites, and offices.
You’ll bring significant post-qualification experience as a solicitor in England and Wales, with deep expertise in landlord and tenant law and leasehold structures. Strong leadership, negotiation skills, and a collaborative approach to stakeholder management are essential, especially in a fast-paced, multi-site, multi-jurisdictional environment.
In this role, you’ll oversee property transactions, compliance, and governance. You’ll manage an in-house legal team and retained external lawyers to ensure our legal strategy supports commercial goals. You’ll also lead on ESG initiatives, including green leases and EPC compliance.
If you’re ready to make a real impact and help shape the future of cardfactory’s retail estate, we’d love to hear from you.
Card Factory is the UK’s leading specialist retailer of greetings cards, dressings, and gifts with over one thousand stores across the UK and Ireland. In 2020 we launched our exciting 5-year business strategy including our vision of becoming a true Omni-channel retailer. This strategy sees significant investment into our colleagues across the business creating multiple opportunities to join a fast-paced environment and be part of our exciting journey.
In return, we offer a wide range of benefits to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing.
Benefits
- Pension
- 15% Card Factory colleague discount in-store and online
- Save As You Earn scheme
- Financial Wellbeing Support
- Financial Education Tools
- Salary Advance
- Seasonal incentive schemes
- Retail Management Apprenticeship Programmes with local providers with access to a virtual internal network for learning together
- Discounted gym membership, mobile phone contracts, and car leasing
- Discounts across 100’s of UK retailers
- Employee Assistance Programme – access to tools to support mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption leave
This is an exciting role with genuine prospects for the right candidate. If this role describes you and your career aspirations, click apply now.
For any questions email: vacancies@cardfactory.co.uk (we do not accept CVs/Applications via email)
We reserve the right to close this vacancy once sufficient suitable applications have been received. We advise applying early to avoid disappointment as applications will be reviewed regularly.
No agencies, please.
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