Salary : Competitive plus 30% bonus up to 60%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more

Job Type : Permanent
Job Contact : Cecilie Illum

Location : Edinburgh with hybrid working. We recognise the benefits of flexible working and will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process.

We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Phoenix Group as an Employment Senior Legal Counsel to join our Legal team.

Who are we?

We want to be the best place that any of our 6,800 colleagues have ever worked.

We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer our 12 million customers products across our market-leading brands, including Standard Life, SunLife and ReAssure, with c.£259 billion of assets under administration. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

The role

As our sole Employment Senior Legal Counsel you will be involved in a wide range of responsibilities including advising internal stakeholders (HR Consultants, Business Partners and HR Directors) on all employment law matters including contentious and non-contentious issues, commercial agreements and employee- relations issues.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide advice on and policies and procedures, including outsourcing agreements, re-organisations and redundancy.
• Identifying, analysing and communicating employment risks to stakeholders and escalate risk and control issues appropriately.
• Advising commercial legal colleagues and internal stakeholders on TUPE matters, supporting with drafting and negotiating employment aspects of commercial contracts.

To succeed in this role it is important that you have the ability to build close working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders. You are confident in delivering regular employment law training sessions as well as knowledge updates to HR Business Partners, HR Directors and legal counsel colleagues.

What are we looking for?

• An Employment lawyer with experience either in-house at a financial services organisation or commercial law firm.
• Excellent technical knowledge and understanding of all aspects of employment law.
• Experience in managing and conducting employment Tribunal litigation.
• Proven track record of sound commercial judgement and ability to analyse situations and information and provide strategic advice on contentious and non-contentious matters.
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent team player.
• Experience in providing training to HR and legal colleagues.
• Ability to influence and assist key stakeholders and senior management to ensure the best legal solution to meet Group objectives.
• Ability to influence and assist key stakeholders and senior management to ensure the best legal solution to meet Group objectives.
  

We want to hire the whole version of you.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

Find out more about #LifeAtPhoenix

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• Find or get answers from our colleagues: www.thephoenixgroup.com/careers/talk-to-us