Counsel - Real Estate (Remote)

A World-Class Team BJ’s Wholesale Club is powered by more than 30,000 team members who make a real impact every day. Whether you're stocking shelves, solving problems or shaping strategy, your work helps families save on what matters most.
Why You’ll Love Working at BJ’s At BJ’s Wholesale Club, our team members are at the heart of everything we do. Here’s just some of what you can look forward to: Weekly Pay: Get paid every weekso that you can manage your money on your terms.
Generous Paid Time Off: Take the time you need with vacation, personal, sick days, holidays, bereavement, and jury duty leave.*
Flexible and Affordable Health Benefits: Choose from three medical plans, and access optional dental, vision, Health Savings Account (HSA), and flexible spending account options to fit your lifestyle.*
401(k) Retirement Savings Plan: Build your financial future with a company match (available to team members 18 and older).*
Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Accumulate funds through after-tax payroll deductions that can be used to purchase shares of BJ’s common stock at a 15% discount.*
*The Real Estate Counsel plays an integral role in supporting BJ’s real estate portfolio, growth, and operations, and must demonstrate strong commercial and legal judgment along with a collaborative, team-first approach. The Real Estate Counsel negotiates and drafts leases, purchase and sale agreements, and other commercial real estate documents; advises internal business partners on property-related legal and operational issues; and conducts real estate diligence for new locations.
Serve as real estate leasing and transaction counsel concerning retail locations, distribution centers, gas stations, and other company locations

Negotiate and draft leases, purchase and sale agreements, and various other commercial real estate documents, including lease amendments, ground leases, condominium documents, development agreements, reciprocal easement agreements, construction agreements, subleases, SNDAs, estoppel certificates, letter agreements, and default notices

Provide prompt legal guidance to various in-house clients (including property development, construction, operations, finance, and risk) regarding lease and easement provisions, operational issues, violations, signage, construction issues, access agreements, landlord/tenant disputes, and repair and maintenance issues

Conduct legal diligence for new locations, including analyzing title and survey and identifying potential environmental risk and liability

Assist in management of real estate related litigation and dispute resolution

Assist in updating the Company’s real estate documents and forms and legal processes

Assist local land use counsel with respect to zoning, permitting, incentives, and similar matters

Report to the Assistant General Counsel, Real Estate

Qualifications: 4-7 years of real estate law experience at an AmLaw 100 firm and/or in-house environment, preferably with retail industry experience

Bachelor's degree from a top college or university; Demonstrated experience as real estate deal counsel, particularly as developer-side counsel on development deals, preferably with some or all such experience on behalf of retail organization(s)

Flexible and willing to pitch in wherever new issues arise

Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks and projects with limited supervision

Tuesday through Thursday are in-office days at BJ's Club Support Center in Marlborough, MA and Monday and Friday are remote days.
Your application should reflect your own skills, experiences, and insights rather than AI-generated responses.

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