The role
combines technical excellence, commercial judgement, and project leadership, offering the chance to advise high-profile clients on strategic issues in a dynamic, non-traditional legal environment
What Your Day Will Look Like
1. Lead complex employment matters, acting as the main client contact and delivering pragmatic, business-focused advice.
2. Oversee workforce change projects (restructuring, TUPE, redundancy, cross-border moves) and advise on pay compliance, investigations, and regulatory issues.
3. Manage employment workstreams in transactions, deliver client training, and drive business development through pitches and proposals.
4. Supervise and mentor junior lawyers, ensure quality and efficiency, and coordinate multi-jurisdictional projects using technology-enabled solutions
This role is for you If
5. Seeking a technically excellent, commercially minded employment lawyer with 6+ years’ PQE as a qualified solicitor (England & Wales), and deep UK employment law expertise, including redundancy, TUPE, pay, investigations, litigation, and cross-border projects.
6. Proven experience leading employment workstreams on transactions and large-scale, multi-jurisdictional change programmes, with strong client relationship and outcome-focused advisory skills.
7. Demonstrated ability to supervise and develop junior team members, oversee high-quality work, and drive business development through cross-selling, networking, and thought leadership.
8. Excellent communication, drafting, and project management skills, with a collaborative, entrepreneurial mindset for multi-disciplinary, technology-enabled environments.
What you’ll receive from us
No matter where you may be in your career or personal life, our benefits are designed to add value and support, recognising and rewarding you fairly for your contributions.
We offer a range of benefits including empowered flexibility and a working week split between office, home and client site; private medical cover and 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP; six volunteering days a year and much more.