Employment Legal Counsel

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Job Details
- Job Description-
- JOB TITLE AND LOCATIONLegal Counsel (Employment)- Legal Team (Porto)- KEY RESPONSIBILITIES- Provide proactive support to draft, review and negotiate various employment contracts (employment contracts, secondment agreements, consulting agreements, settlement agreements, termination letters etc), using legal knowhow, templates, playbooks and policies, and analysing legal and commercial risks to craft appropriate legal solutions
- Assist in developing and refining Legal team knowhow including template agreements, playbooks and policies to address the evolving needs of a growing business and driving process simplification
- Build trusting relationships with senior stakeholders and clients
- Work closely with internal clients from all business units to support their objectives and advise and provide training on legal risks and opportunities related to their strategy
- Provide global employment law updates and content for the Employment Law landing page; collate regular contents
- Contingent workers: project managing, collating factual information from markets for audits (salary details, method of pay, contracts etc)
- Labour relations: support on governance process for IT transformation and rollouts; project management, collating information regarding employee representative bodies and their participation rights
- M&A support: DD (collating DD responses on disposals; support on acquisitions)
- Change programs (M&A, restructuring and reorgs etc): project manage market by market comms plan and consultation
- Policy development: project manage audit and review process
- Employee relations: collate analysis of trends on cases
- Training: project manage training roll outs and maintaining timetable
- Employment Liability Insurance: ownership of renewal process
- WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR- At least 2 years’ experience working at a top law firm or in-house legal department with a focus on commercial transactional practice
- Fluent in English
- Member of the legal profession in the UK or other EU jurisdiction
- Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong business acumen and ability to advise on business-related legal issues
- Competency in drafting and negotiating employment contracts; strong working background in client, partner and/or supplier agreements
- Data protection experience would be desirable
- A team player who engages in purposeful collaborating with legal team members and clients (no job is too small or too large)
- Able to work effectively across regions, cultures and time zones
- The ability to organise work and competing priorities and manage expectations of stakeholders.
- An independent and strategic thinker and willing to take on additional responsibilities
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced and evolving business
- A commitment to personal development and learning and a focus on continual improvement

Location

Porto, Praça de Mouzinho de AlbuquerquePortugal

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