Senior Legal Counsel – Employment Law

Senior Legal Counsel – Employment Law

We have a fantastic opportunity for a qualified employment lawyer with at least 7 years post qualification experience to join QBE’s in-house Legal Team reporting into the Head of Legal, Employment. In this role you will provide pragmatic and effective legal advice and support to the People function and the business in the UK and across Europe.

Location: London, Leeds
Type: Permanent, full time, Employee
Time Type: Full time

Responsibilities

• Provide pragmatic and effective legal advice and support to the People function and the business in the UK and across Europe.
• Advising on a wide variety of employment issues including disciplinaries and grievances, recruitment, restructures and organisational changes, contractual issues and reviews, policies, compensation and benefits, business transfers and service provision changes, redundancies, negotiated exits and regulatory issues.
• Analyse and think analytically and pragmatically to provide commercial, effective and proactive advice and guidance.
• Act independently, make decisions and challenge the business where necessary.
• Foster and develop relationships with key stakeholders.
• Organise and prioritise workload and work under time pressures and deadlines.

Qualifications

• 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).
• Have the confidence to act independently, take decisions and challenge the business where necessary.
• Have strong interpersonal skills, enthusiasm for the job and a sense of humour.
• 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 – 2/3 days a week in the office.
• Pension – automatically enrolled into the QBE pension plan; entitles you to receive employer contributions of 10% of your basic salary.

Having the right to work in the UK is a requirement for this role. QBE may consider sponsorship at its discretion.

Equal Employment Opportunity:
QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.