Senior Employment Counsel

23 hours ago

Singapore Unilever Full time

**Job Position: Senior Employment Counsel - Asia Pacific Function: Legal**
**Reports to: Chief Employment Counsel**

**Location: Singapore**
**Scope: Asia Pacific region**

**Business Context**

The Employment Legal function sits within the Corporate Centre and provides employment law support to enable Unilever to deliver its business objectives while appropriately managing risk.

We are looking to hire an expert Senior Counsel who can lead the provision legal support for the full range of employment law issues which impact Unilever’s business across Asia Pacific.

**Main Purpose**

**Detailed role description**
- Lead employment law legal support across Asia Pacific
- Partner with HR teams and other stakeholders to provide support for all contentious and non-contentious employment law work.
- Working with the IR/ER team to provide advice on employee relations matters, including issues related to works councils and trade unions.
- Providing expert advice and input in relation to global projects, policies and other initiatives.
- Supporting the Business Integrity team in relation to employment related investigations and other compliance issues.
- Responsibility for the engagement and use of outside counsel across the region, including managing to a budget.
- Proactively identifying, addressing and managing legal risk issues related to employment law.
- Keeping up to date on employment law developments and providing thought leadership as to the impact on Unilever
- Conducting training and building knowhow as required for both HR and non-HR colleagues.
- The roles of duties are not exhaustive and may change according to business requirements.

**Critical Success Factors for the Job**

**Essential Skills & Relevant Experience**:

- Qualified lawyer in a jurisdiction within the region with significant experience advising organisations on employment law issues across Asia Pacific.
- Deep experience advising in relation to the full range of employment issues, including trade union and other collective issues, on a cross-border basis.
- Experience in working in a complex multinational organisation - either directly or on a secondment basis.
- Demonstrable experience of driving change
- Ability to operate and exercise judgement independently
- Ability to influence and manage multiple internal and external stakeholders. Ability to deliver through others and with limited resources.
- Ability to engage on technical topics and communicate them in a clear and easy-to-understand manner.
- Experience in preparing executive briefings and presentations.
- Ability to translate global strategies locally.
- Comfortable with uncertainty, able to exercise judgement in a fast-moving environment.
- Fluent in English with a second language an advantage
- This role is based in our office in Singapore.

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