Description
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Essential Responsibilities:
1. Establish overall business or technical strategy, aligning legal initiatives with corporate goals and objectives.
2. Influence decision-making at the executive level, providing strategic legal advice on key business decisions and transactions.
3. Provide strategic legal advice and support, particularly in high-demand areas such as mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, and regulatory compliance.
4. Ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations, overseeing the implementation of advanced legal technologies and compliance programs.
5. Manage legal risks and safeguard PayPal's legal interests, developing and executing risk management strategies.
6. Represent PayPal in litigation and other legal proceedings, managing high-profile cases and collaborating with senior leadership.
Expected Qualifications:
7. Minimum of 15 years of relevant work experience and a Juris doctorate or equivalent degree
Preferred Qualification:
Essential Responsibilities
8. Responsible for employment law matters across multiple EMEA jurisdictions—including Luxembourg, Ireland, the UK, Sweden, France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Russia, Israel, Turkey.
9. Lead and provide employment law guidance on matters involving European Works Councils, national works councils, and staff delegations, ensuring compliance with local labor laws and alignment with corporate governance standards.
10. Manage relationships with internal stakeholders in EMEA and across the globe in a complex, matrixed environment – including within the U.S. Executive team, HR, Legal, Compliance, and Business functions.
11. Manage EMEA employment-related disputes and litigation and internal dispute resolution.
12. Manage external counsel relationships, budgets and legal spend.
13. Lead global restructuring and reorganisation efforts as they relate to EMEA.
14. Lead and advise on employment law aspects of: (1) complex global investigations; (2) supporting compensation team with Executive hiring, compensation and separations; (3) mergers and acquisitions, business partnerships, outsourcings and in-sourcings.
15. Ensure adherence to applicable employment laws, collective bargaining agreements and European and Luxembourg banking regulations on sound remuneration principles as they relate to employment matters.
16. Draft legal documents, including employment contracts, policies and procedures, separation agreements and relevant provisions in transactional documentation.
17. Create and execute internal training sessions for HR, Legal, Executives, managers and employees on employment law matters.
Minimum Qualifications
18. Master’s degree in law from a recognized European jurisdiction.
19. Demonstrated experience overseeing multi-country labor law matters, with direct responsibility for team compliance and issue resolution.
20. Proficiency in MS Office and web-based tools, with the ability to leverage technology to support team operations and reporting.
21. Fluent in English; additional language skills are a strong asset for managing cross-border teams.
Preferred Qualifications
22. Proven ability to lead, motivate, and develop a team, fostering a high-performance and collaborative work environment.
23. Strong understanding of HR principles, with demonstrated experience in managing labor and employee relations issues.
24. In-depth knowledge of EMEA labor, social security, and employment laws, with practical application in team management.
25. Exceptional organizational and strategic decision-making skills, with the ability to delegate effectively and manage competing priorities.
26. Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with confidence in negotiation and conflict resolution at the team and cross-functional levels.
27. Familiarity with, and strong interest in, PayPal, mobile payments, emerging payment technology and the payments industry.
28. Some travel is required.
Subsidiary:
PayPal
Travel Percent:
0
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