Senior Employment Counsel
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Senior Employment Counsel, UK, EMEA & APAC
Responsibilities
Position: Senior Employment Counsel, UK, EMEA & APAC
Reports to: SVP Employment Law
Location: London
NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a suite of leading Internet-based businesses. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.
Overview:
Working as part of NBCUniversal's global employment law group and as part of a team of 3 in London, provide employment law advice across all NBCUniversal's businesses in EMEA and APAC including the Filmed Entertainment Group (production, distribution, home entertainment, acquisitions and consumer products), news, sports, theme parks, TV (production, networks and distribution), as well as significant operations, technology and corporate functions.
Key Responsibilities:
• Provide legal advice and counsel to HR, managers, including key business leaders, and other internal lawyers, both within and outside the US, regarding the full range of contentious and non-contentious employment law issues in the UK, EMEA and APAC.
• Advise NBCUniversal and, as appropriate, instruct outside counsel with respect to internal investigations, employment litigation and the employment-related aspects of acquisitions and dispositions of businesses.
• Build close relationships with HR and Legal in order to foster a partnering approach.
• Analyze and advise with respect to the impact of legislative changes on our operations.
• Develop and implement policies and forms applicable in the UK, EMEA and APAC.
• Provide employment law training for HR and the businesses.
Skills
and Experience:
The successful candidate will have: -
• The ability to work well in a fast-paced, high volume, matrixed in-house environment, demonstrating good business judgment, flexibility and self-confidence.
• Demonstrable experience acting as a trusted business partner enabling businesses to measure and manage risk in a changing landscape.
• The ability to be innovative and provide creative solutions to complex legal problems.
• Thorough knowledge of UK employment laws. Knowledge of and experience with employment laws in EMEA and APAC is also highly valued.
• A high level of adaptability and resilience when working in a fast-paced, fluid environment.
• Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills.
• Ideally, a minimum of 6 years' experience practicing employment law. Solid training in private practice and broad-based employment law counselling and employment litigation experience.
• Experience in house (either in a permanent role or on a secondment) is beneficial, but not essential, as is media industry experience.
Requirements:
• Willing to travel
• Additional languages would be beneficial though not required
Notices:
NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
Qualifications
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