Manager - Labour Law Counsel
adidas
Herzogenaurach, Germany
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide clear, business-minded, legal advice to HR, business-, function-, and project stakeholders in all individual and collective employment-law related matters
- Draft and review employment contract template/clauses and company agreements
- Implementation and improvement of standards and processes incl. template management
- Deliver expert opinions, identify best-practices and support implementation concepts
- Handle litigation cases and manage external counsel support
- Conduct internal employment law trainings
- Active support and close cooperation with other global legal team members
Key Relationships:
- Interacts and works with HR and Legal community
- Interacts with external legal counsels
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Business oriented mind-set with the ability to balance legal requirements against business needs
- Demonstrated problem solving capabilities and comfortable working in an environment, which demands high quality deliverables
- Ability to work well independently and on own initiative, maintaining customer-centricity while setting/shifting priorities
- Team player with strong interpersonal skills and can-do mentality
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- Discrete, empathic and trustworthy personality
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
Requisite Education and Experience/Minimum Qualifications:
- Fully qualified lawyer (final grade of "fully satisfactory")
- Ideally, certified employment-law specialist
- 2-3 years of relevant professional experience, preferably in an international company or in an international law firm
- Business-fluent English and German, both written and spoken
- Good MS-Office 365 skills
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