Employment Law legal Counsel - German Speaker
TomTom
Legal
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Posted on Apr 3, 2025
What you'll do
- Provide practical daily employment law advice on various employment matters, such as recruitment, compensation and benefits, performance management, illness and terminations.
- Your focus will be on German employment law, while also supporting and interpreting external legal advice in other countries around the world, enabling our global presence.
- Be the primary contact person and manage the process for engagement with our German Works Councils in Berlin & Hannover and support our other works council's engagement from time to time if the need for cover arises.
- Collaborate with local outside counsels, when necessary, to ensure all stakeholders receive pragmatic and meaningful advice, whilst helping control external legal spend.
- Lead on HR legal matters for (global) organizational changes and redundancies, guiding and supporting the processes delivered by our employee relations team to execute such changes.
- Monitor legal and legislative developments to help ensure compliance with international, federal, and local employment laws.
- Create efficiency in processes to help the people team to provide excellent service, for example in standardizing further ways of working in our employment relations team.
- Provide consultation on projects on the HR roadmap, such as performance management, data protection, remuneration schemes, talent processes etc.
- Draft and revise or provide review and sign off for a range of employment-related templates, such as offer letters, employment agreements, settlement, and separation agreements, employee handbooks, code of conduct, business cases, investment memo’s and more.
What you’ll need
- Law degree in employment law and 5+ years of relevant experience as an employment lawyer or inhouse legal counsel.
- German and English fluency required; fluency in other languages is a plus.
- Experience of working with other countries in an international setting is an asset but not essential, although the desire to expand your international experience is necessary in this case.
- Experience advising on works council matters including engagement and processes is essential.
- Eagerness to find innovative solutions supporting key business goals and increasing the employee experience, while ensuring HR compliance.
- Independent, self-starter, highly responsive and positive, service-oriented approach
- Experience with drafting and negotiating HR documents, and global implementation of HR related policies and procedures
- Generalist ambitions beyond employment law expertise will work in your favor
- Ability to collaborate with cross functional teams, leaning into the expertise and specialisms where required
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