Senior Legal Counsel providing pragmatic legal advice for employment matters in the UK and Europe. Qualified employment lawyer with 7+ years of experience required for QBE’s in-house Legal Team.
Responsibilities
Provide pragmatic and effective legal advice and support to the People function and the business in the UK and across Europe.
Advise on a wide variety of employment issues including but not limited to disciplinaries and grievances, recruitment, restructures, organisational changes, contractual issues and reviews, policies, compensation and benefits, business transfers and service provision changes, redundancies, negotiated exits and regulatory issues.
Requirements
Be a qualified employment lawyer with at least 7 years post qualification experience (experience with advising regulated financial services entities a plus);
Possess a thorough understanding of UK employment law (experience or an interest in European employment law issues a plus);
Could think analytically and pragmatically and provide commercial, effective and proactive advice and guidance.
Have the confidence to act independently, take decisions and challenge the business where necessary.
Have strong interpersonal skills, an enthusiasm for the job you do, and a sense of humour.
Be able to foster and develop relationships with key stakeholders.
Be able to organise and prioritise workload and work under time pressures and deadlines.
Benefits
30 days holiday a year with the option to buy up to 2 additional days.
Hybrid working - We offer a hybrid working 2/3 days a week in the office.
Pension – you are automatically enrolled into the QBE pension plan, which entitles you to receive employer contributions of 10% of your basic salary.
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