Senior Employment Counsel
Senior Employment Counsel
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Job Description
Overview:
Working as part of NBCUniversals global employment law group provide employment law advice across the Groups Media and DTC businesses in the UK EMEA and APAC.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide legal advice and counsel to HR managers business leaders and other internal lawyers both within and outside the US regarding the full range of contentious and noncontentious employment law issues in the UK EMEA and APAC.
- Advise NBCUniversal and as appropriate instruct outside counsel with respect to internal investigations employment litigation and the employmentrelated aspects of acquisitions and dispositions of businesses.
- Build close relationships with HR and Legal in order to foster a partnering approach.
- Analyze and advise with respect to the impact of legislative changes on our operations.
- Develop and implement policies and forms applicable in the UK APAC and EMEA.
- Provide employment law training for HR and the businesses.
Qualifications :
The successful candidate will have:
- The ability to work well in a fastpaced high volume matrixed inhouse environment demonstrating good business judgment flexibility and selfconfidence.
- Demonstrable experience acting as a trusted business partner enabling businesses to measure and manage risk in a changing landscape.
- The ability to be innovative and provide creative solutions to complex legal problems.
- Thorough knowledge of UK employment laws. Knowledge of and experience with employment laws in EMEA/APAC is also highly valued.
- Excellent interpersonal oral and written communication skills.
- Ideally a minimum of 8 years experience practising employment law. Solid training in private practice and broadbased employment law counselling and employment litigation experience.
- Experience in house (either in a permanent role or on a secondment) is beneficial but not essential as is media industry experience.
Requirements:
- Willing to travel
- Additional languages would be beneficial though not required
Additional Information :
As part of our selection process external candidates may be required to attend an inperson interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversals policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race color religion creed gender gender identity or expression age national origin or ancestry citizenship disability sexual orientation marital status pregnancy veteran status membership in the uniformed services genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable law.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
