Head of Legal Services

1 month ago


Ireland PARETO SECURITIES AS Full time

Are you our new hands-on and dynamic Head of HR Legal Services, who is ready to lead our Terms- and Reward team in a fast paced international and agile setting? The role is offering a unique opportunity to work on both operational- and strategic framing initiatives within the entire employment law- and rewards sphere – so if this sounds like you, then we welcome you into the USTC family.

Group HR and Center of Excellence
At our HQ in Middelfart, you will become part of a Group HR team with 23 experienced HR professionals, who are acting as our global Centre of Excellence (CoE) I n this role you will have the opportunity to set your mark and together with your team of 6 deliver exceptional services across the entirety of employment law, negotiations, drafting/revising of HR legal documents and the rewards sphere (terms & benefits) as well, across all entities within the USTC Group. In this role you will also act personally as a key advisor to many stakeholders and at the same time lead the USTC Group towards ongoing HR legal compliance.

Reporting directly to the Group CHRO, you will join a team of ambitious and supportive legal counsels, who as trusted advisors are dedicated to delivering high-end legal advice and presenting pragmatic and business-oriented solutions to the many companies and stakeholders under the USTC umbrella. Besides being a hands-on people leader, together with your team, you will be responsible for handling a broad variety of legal activities primarily related to individual, but also collective employment law, meeting with internal as well as external stakeholders, various contract negotiations as well as securing the right flow between the operational and strategic levels of our business.

Other key responsibilities:

  • Creating an environment where your team brings the best version of themselves to work and ensuring they are engaged and continuously developed to bring their best-in-class legal counsel experiences to the table - for the benefit and satisfaction of our internal and external stakeholders.
  • Supporting USTC with proper and fit HR cultural and legal due diligence in M&A activities across the USTC Group.
  • Keeping yourself, your team and our companies properly updated with latest directives and laws influencing the business specifically within Employment law.
  • Responsible for proper Legal reporting and analysis to our CHRO and relevant business stakeholders. 

An adaptable profile with legal counsel expertise combined with leadership experience
Besides holding a Master of Law, you have 6+ years’ experience of which 3-5 years are with leadership, preferably from a similar position within a large matrix organisation. However, it could also be experience gained from a lawyer´s office or labor union office. Your agile, adaptable, and commercial mindset combined with the ability to keep calm when the pressure is on, are key factors to succeeding in the position. You are tenacious, confident and a positive team player, who thrives by being a hands-on leader for your team, taking the lead on legal matters on all levels of the organisation.

We furthermore imagine that you have following skillset:

  • A robust people leader with a proven track-record.
  • Excellent stakeholder management, communication, influencing and relational skills.
  • Ability to develop and maintain the strong partnerships we have both internally and externally.
  • Speak and write Danish and English effortlessly.

Interested in joining our team?
If above sounds like something, you would thrive in – then come join us.
Remember that above description of the position is the ideal requirements for a candidate, however we strongly believe in inclusion and diversity, for which reason we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all requirements.

Please note that applications are handled on an ongoing basis, and we reserve the right to remove the advertisement when we find the right candidate.

We are already looking forward to hearing from you.

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