Senior Employment Legal Counsel

Senior Employment Legal Counsel Job Description Become part of the team powering household names like Andrex®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Viva®, and WypAll®. At Arbex, everything you need is right here—innovation, growth, and the chance to leave a real mark. Settling for just any role isn't you, and it isn't us either. Being Unstoppable Together calls for a particular kind of person and teams who genuinely care about making a difference. Here, you'll channel your professional expertise, talent, and drive into building and managing a portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you'll help shape the future of tissue and hygiene for billions of people worldwide.

About You

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. As the Senior Employment Counsel EMEA, you will provide strategic employment and labor legal support to the People Organization and global broader business. This role delivers global leadership across employment and labor matters, oversees investigations and supports a global Employment & Labor Center of Excellence to drive best practices across the legal organization. You will partner closely with senior leaders, legal colleagues and compliance teams worldwide to anticipate risk, enable transformation and support the company’s global workforce, also directly engaging with external stakeholders such as unions and works councils across different jurisdictions, including UK and EMEA. You will report directly to the General Counsel Transformation and will be an individual contributor (no direct reports).

Location

Clapham Junction, London (SW11 1PN) – 3 days a week onsite. We can offer a hybrid model for candidates already based in the UK.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic employment and labor law advice globally, partnering with legal, People Organization, compliance and business stakeholders to address complex workforce matters
• Establish strong global partnerships and serve as a trusted advisor on employment and labor issues impacting enterprise strategy and operations
• Anticipate, assess and mitigate employment and labor risk to drive sound business outcomes
• Oversee HR investigations and advise on a broad range of employment matters, including hiring, discipline, termination, compensation, benefits and restrictive covenants
• Lead global employment and labor projects across legal and functional teams through influence and project management
• Manage and defend employment‑related claims, including oversight of outside counsel, administrative charges, litigation and negotiated resolutions
• Review, develop, and provide guidance on global HR policies, procedures and compliance training related to labor matters
• Advise on labor relations and Industrial issues, collective bargaining agreements, transformations, acquisitions, divestments and global mobility matters, including negotiations and consultation processes with trade unions, works councils and employee representative bodies.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Previous experience as a practicing attorney in a progressive employment and labor practice at a top‑tier law firm and/or large multinational company, with manufacturing/workforce relations experience
• Extensive experience advising on a broad range of employment and labor law matters, including negotiations with external stakeholders
• Hands‑on experience supporting works council, employee representative body and/or trade union consultation processes in a manufacturing / industrial environment, with blue‑collar employee populations
• Experience managing workforce change initiatives, including restructures, redundancies or organizational transformations
• Strong judgment, executive presence and ability to operate independently while collaborating across global and matrixed organizations

Preferred Qualifications

• Combination of private practice and in‑house legal experience
• Experience supporting manufacturing, industrial, FMCG, consumer goods or operational workforces
• Exposure to UK and European employment law matters across multiple countries
• Experience managing external counsel and controlling legal spend
• Ability to balance legal risk with pragmatic business decision‑making
• Interest in working in a growing, fast‑evolving and entrepreneurial environment

Total Benefits

We believe that our employees are our greatest asset, and we're committed to providing them with the resources they need to be successful. If you're looking for a rewarding career with a company that cares about its employees, then ARBEX is the place for you. We offer competitive pay and benefits to employees and reward excellence and performance. Our belief in promoting a healthy work‑life balance drives us to support our employees’ total well‑being, offering comprehensive benefits not limited to gym memberships, private medical insurance, dental cover, employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme, critical illness cover, travel insurance and a market leading defined contribution pension scheme. Certain benefits, such as flexible work schedules and parental leave, can be tailored to meet specific individual needs, giving our employees the flexibility to manage their commitments inside and outside of work.

• Gym memberships
• Private medical insurance
• Dental cover
• Employee assistance programme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Critical illness cover
• Travel insurance
• Defined contribution pension scheme
• Flexible work schedules
• Parental leave

Eligibility and Employment Terms

This role is available for local candidates already authorized to work in the role’s country only. ARBEX will not provide relocation support for this role.

Primary Location: London, United Kingdom. Additional Locations omitted for brevity.

Worker Type: Employee

Worker Sub‑Type: Regular Time Type

Full time

We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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