Senior Legal Counsel in London - Johnson Matthey plc

Vacancy: Senior Legal Counsel - Commercial & Employment
Location: UK Flexible
Job Family: Legal
The role of Senior Legal Counsel, Commercial & Employment is to provide high quality legal services throughout JM's Group functions and act as a business partner to JM's HR leads in their strategic employment activities. Approximately 30-50% of the role will be dedicated to employment related matters/advice. Being a business partner to the organisation and being welcomed into conversations and decision-making. Key to the role is getting to understand the businesses and to develop close working relationships with colleagues across each layer of the organisation to ensure legal compliance and co-ordinated risk management for Group Legal.
Johnson Matthey, a FTSE 250 organisation, is a global leader in sustainable technologies specialising in catalysis, precious metal products, chemicals and process technology. With operations in over 30 countries, we employ more than 12,600 people. We have more 200 years of success behind us; be part of the next stage of our growth journey and help maintain our reputation as one of the most admired organisations in our field. Our unique culture and people give us competitive advantage and will ensure our success for years to come. You can be part of that success story.
Your responsibilities:
Advising the Group and Corporate functions on a wide range of domestic and international commercial matters including Procurement, Research and Development, IT, Tax, Treasury, Finance, HR, Corporate Communications, Group Risk and Assurance, and Security.
Drafting and negotiating a variety of legal documents and commercial contracts. This ranges from standard terms to bespoke agreements. Examples include global and domestic purchase agreements for both goods and services, consultancy agreements, a wide range of technology agreements, outsourcing agreements. All aspects of such arrangements are covered, including competition, IP, tax and employment.
Providing oversight and advice in relation to strategic operational employment issues which have been escalated by HR including global strategic and transformation projects
Coordination of external legal support (where required) for employment matters and employment related litigation, settling budgets for advice presented by these firms and managing that legal spend.
Able to identify and support all key areas of employment (for example, redundancy, restructuring, Transfer of Undertakings (TUPE) (including equivalent local laws), settlement agreements, speak ups etc), specifically within the UK and able to navigate non-UK employment support with appropriate support from external partners
Work closely with the functions to ensure that appropriate risk management procedures are in place to cover contractual and compliance risk management.
Knowledge of the data protection landscape and the interrelationship with employment laws
Creating templates, play books, guardrails for HR and commerical for day to day and standard queries
Ensure consistent approach to provision of legal advice across sectors and jurisdictions.
Horizon scan for new legislation that will affect JM's business operations globally, develop plans to ensure compliance with same.
Work closely with other members of the JM legal, Ethics and Compliance, Company Secretarial and IP team to ensure global consistency in legal and compliance risk management.
To develop and arrange for employment law training and provide other legal and compliance training.
Promote JM's Code of Ethics within the Business and an approach to doing business that reflects JM's commitment to doing business ethically, in accordance with its values.
Managing wide range of improvement and simplification projects and team wide initiatives within legal.
Implementing and maintaining standard template documents and procedures.
Supporting the development of the more junior members of JM Legal.

Requirements for the role:
Qualified lawyer with significant experience advising on corporate and commercial contractual matters
Ideally possess in-house experience with around 2 years+ PQE
Significant advisory experience at senior management level on all areas of employment law
Worked in an international environment and advising business outside jurisdiction of qualification
Experience dealing with Compliance matters is desirable
Exposure to data protection, technology and intellectual property contractual matters is advantageous
Experience managing disputes and competition law is desirable
Experience of working with multiple internal stakeholders simultaneously
Holds a current UK practicing certificate

How you will be rewarded:
We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package including bonus, excellent pension contributions and 25 days annual leave (varies for shift-based roles).
At JM, an inclusive culture is integral to our values and ambitions for the future. We are committed to ensuring that everyone can bring their full self to work and thrive in their career. Welcoming everyone to JM, regardless of their unique characteristics, experiences or thoughts allows us to bring many different voices and experiences together to tackle the world's biggest challenges. Being truly inclusive means that all colleagues feel valued for their differences, views and contributions, and feel a sense of belonging at JM .
Johnson Matthey is open for discussion on part time, job share and flexible working patterns
Closing date for applications: This job advertisement will be posted for a minimum of 2 weeks, early application is advised
For any queries or should you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application please contact . #LI-GK1 #LI-hybrid
JBRP1_UKTJ