Employment Law Solicitor/Associate in Westminster

Colt provides network, voice and data centre services to thousands of businesses around the world, allowing them to focus on delivering their business goals instead of the underlying infrastructure.

We have a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious and talented employment lawyer to join our corporate law team, reporting to the Employment Law Lead who has responsibility for employment law globally. This role is a key contact point for the wider global HR function and will support the business on a range of employment law matters, including:

• Providing advice on complex, cross-functional, and multi-jurisdictional transformation projects supporting Colt's business and HR priorities.
• Managing legal and employee relations risk for the business.

We are interested in candidates who are available on a full-time basis. Ideally, you will have in-house as well as private practice experience.

What you will do:

• Engaging with senior stakeholders including at the C-Suite level on employment law matters.
• Providing critical support and leading the employment law advice required on strategic projects both on a national and global level.
• Managing and advising on a wide range of strategic employment law risks and issues including redundancy, performance, sickness absence, TUPE and compensation and benefits.
• Drafting, advising on and negotiating, as required, a variety of employment-related agreements, including contracts of employment, settlement agreements and supporting general commercial outsourcing and supplier contracts and corporate matters/transactional work.
• Managing Acas pre-claim conciliation and employment litigation with the support of external counsel.
• Reviewing and advising on HR processes and policies, working closely with our local HR teams.
• Partnering with members of our broader Legal team and other functional stakeholders as appropriate such as Reward, Tax, Procurement, Finance and Audit and our Data Protection Office.
• Providing regular training and updates for HR stakeholders on employment law compliance.
• Experience of providing contentious and non-contentious employment legal advice to multi-national employer organisations, used to dealing directly with senior decision-makers.
• Exposure to employment law internationally.
• Strong commercial acumen with a solution-oriented approach.
• Working knowledge of additional European languages.
• Experience of advising on employment law aspects of post-acquisition integration and harmonisation of terms and conditions.

Inclusion and valuing diversity of thought and experience are at the heart of our culture here at Colt. From day one, you'll be encouraged to be yourself because we believe that's what helps our people to thrive. We welcome people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, disability, neurodiversity, age, marital status, pregnancy status, or place of birth.

We offer flexible working hours and the option to work from home, opportunities for further development and educational opportunities, a Global Family Leave Policy, an Employee Assistance Program, and internal inclusion & diversity employee networks.