Legal Counsel

Make an impact in ways that matter. Join a business built on trusted brands, great people and teamwork, where care and fresh ideas help keep things moving. Here, your contribution helps serve our customers, support our operations and enable our teams to do their best work. You’ll be encouraged to bring your strengths, supported to grow, and welcomed into a team where we make a meaningful difference together.

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) is one of the leading consumer goods companies in the world. We are in the privileged position of making, moving and selling some of the world’s most loved brands. Our GB Legal team is a friendly, collaborative and hard-working team. We work closely with People Culture and senior stakeholders on a broad range of legal matters.

What to expect

• In this role, you will work closely with the Associate Director, Legal Employment and key stakeholders across the business.
• Advising on day-to-day employment law and employee relations issues, including flexible working requests and data subject access requests.
• Supporting complex disciplinaries, grievances, absence management and restructuring activity.
• Managing and supporting all elements of employment tribunal claims, working with external Counsel.
• Drafting and reviewing HR policies, contracts and settlement agreements.
• Supporting Code of Conduct matters and internal investigations.
• Supporting on projects and legislation change including changes relating to the Employment Rights Act 2025.

Skills Essentials

• Qualified solicitor (England Wales) with 1-3 years PQE in employment law.
• Strong grounding in employment law including collective consultation and TUPE.
• Employment Tribunal experience.
• Experience working with HR / Employee Relations stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and drafting skills.
• Ability to build relationships, provide pragmatic advice, manage competing priorities and work collaboratively.

Desirable:

• Experience in labour relations / unionised environment, including European Works Councils.
• Experience with international companies (particularly in Europe) and cross-border work.

Why join us?

• Broad exposure to employment law, labour relations and projects.
• Opportunity to work closely with senior stakeholders and influence outcomes.
• A collaborative and supportive team environment.
• Scope for involvement in international matters and cross-border initiatives.

We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), a dedicated team of 42,000 people, serving customers in 31 countries, who work together to make, move and sell some of the world’s most loved drinks. We are a global business and one of the leading consumer goods companies in the world. We help our 2.1 million customers grow, and we are constantly investing in exciting new products, innovative technologies and fresh ideas. This helps us to delight the 600 million people who enjoy our drinks every day.

From gender, age and ethnicity to sexual orientation and different abilities, we welcome people from all walks of life and empower unique perspectives. We recognise we’ve got some way to go, but we’ll get there with the support of our people. It’s them who drive our future growth.

To find out more about what it’s like to work at and our culture we would welcome you to speak to one of our employees on our live chat platform.

We recognise some people prefer not to participate in alcohol related sales, interactions, or promotions. If that’s true for you please raise this with your talent acquisition contact who will advise you on whether this role includes activities related to our alcohol portfolio.