General Counsel Global Head of Employment Law
General Counsel Global Head of Employment Law
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Job Description
The General Counsel Global Employment Law will provide labor and employmentrelated legal advice and counsel to the companys Human Resources professionals and company leadership worldwide. This includes legal research drafting and counseling on a broad range of international and employment/labor legal issues. Reporting to the Chief Legal Officer this role will contribute to the protection of NielsenIQs legal interests compliance with applicable laws and regulations and facilitate the achievement of corporate objectives by providing timely highquality thorough and costeffective counsel concerning complex legal employment issues.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Global Employment Law Oversight: Provide expert legal guidance on employment law across all jurisdictions where the company operates ensuring compliance with local labor laws regulations and best practices in each country.
- Management & Dispute Resolution: Identify evaluate and proactively address employmentrelated risks. Costeffectively manage outside counsel in all employment litigated matters
- Employment Contracts & Agreements: Draft and review employment agreements offer letters noncompete and nondisclosure agreements severance agreements sales incentive plans and other employeerelated contracts ensuring consistency and compliance with global legal requirements.
- Employee Relations & Investigations: Advise on employee relations issues including grievances terminations disciplinary actions and investigations. Help ensure the company fosters a positive and inclusive work environment.
- CrossFunctional Collaboration: Work closely with the Chief Human Resources Officer HR leadership and other internal clients to develop and implement global human resources and employment policies and practices.
- Leadership & Team Management: Lead mentor and manage a lean team of employment lawyers and professionals. Collaborate with crossfunctional attorneys to provide effective labor and employment advice to internal clients. Foster a collaborative highperformance team culture ensuring alignment with the companys strategic goals.
- Training & Development: Create and deliver training programs for internal teams including HR and business leaders on global employment law trends compliance requirements and best practices for managing international workforces.
- IPO Readiness & Compliance: Partner with key internal stakeholders (including HR finance and compliance) to ensure that employment law matters are thoroughly addressed in preparation for the companys IPO. This includes advising on executive compensation equity plans employee stock options and ensuring regulatory compliance.
- Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Support: Provide legal counsel in relation to employment matters in M&A transactions including due diligence employee integration and compliance with labor laws in various jurisdictions.
Requirements:
- Qualified lawyer in an US or European jurisdiction.
- Minimum of 12 years of experience as an employment attorney with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role.
- Significant experience managing global employment law issues for a multinational company is required and with strong knowledge of the European legal employment law framework.
- Experience in evaluating employee disciplinary matters.
- Inhouse experience strongly preferred but not required.
Skills & Competencies:
- Must be a team player
- Handson roll up the sleeves attorney who can work well in a fastpaced environment.
- Must be a selfstarter and finisher with the ability to efficiently complete projects with minimal oversight.
- Highly motivated and proactive the ability to build and maintain strong relationships and collaboration with relevant internal stakeholders.
- Ability to problemsolve and think strategically in ambiguous situations.
- Ability to distill complex legal concepts and issues in a manner to make them understandable to nonlegal specialists.
- Strong decisionmaking aptitude.
- Solutionsoriented approach to problem solving.
- Excellent risk identification and mitigation skills.
Additional Information :
Our Benefits
- Flexible working environment
- Volunteer time off
- LinkedIn Learning
- EmployeeAssistanceProgram (EAP)
About NIQ
NIQ is the worlds leading consumer intelligence company delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023 NIQ combined with GfK bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insightsdelivered with advanced analytics through stateoftheart platformsNIQ delivers the Full View. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100 markets covering more than 90 of the worlds population.
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NIQ is committed to reflecting the diversity of the clients communities and markets we measure within our own workforce. We exist to count everyone and are on a mission to systematically embed inclusion and diversity into all aspects of our workforce measurement and products. We enthusiastically invite candidates who share that mission to join us. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative ActionEmployer making decisions without regard to race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability status age marital status protected veteran status or any other protected class. Our global nondiscrimination policy covers these protected classes in every market in which we do business worldwide. Learn more about how we are driving diversity and inclusion in everything we do by visiting the NIQ News Center: https://nielseniq/global/en/newscenter/diversityinclusion
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Remote
