Senior Associate, Employment

A leading international law firm is seeking a Senior Associate to join its highly regarded Employment practice, working across its UK offices. The team is recognised for delivering pragmatic, commercially focused advice to a diverse client base that ranges from multinational organisations and household brands to fast-growing businesses.

The role covers the full spectrum of employment law work, including complex workplace disputes, strategic people issues, business restructurings, cross-border employment matters and the employment aspects of transactions. The team combines technical excellence with a practical understanding of the challenges facing modern employers, and offers the chance to work on high-profile matters alongside leading employment lawyers across a European network.

The successful candidate will take on substantive responsibility from the outset, leading larger transactions and cases, contributing to advisory and litigation workstreams, and helping to drive the team's business development strategy. This is an opportunity to grow within a collaborative and inclusive culture that values people first, ESG and teamwork.

• Qualified solicitor in England & Wales or another common law jurisdiction with strong respondent employment law experience.
• 6–9 years' post-qualification experience within a leading international law firm or comparable in-house environment.
• Proven expertise in employment litigation, including drafting ET3s and schedules/counter schedules of loss, with experience supporting advocacy preparations.
• Experience of workplace investigations, disciplinary and grievance processes, redundancies, TUPE, employment status and senior exits.
• Ability to lead larger transactions and cases and manage restructuring, outsourcing and organisational change programmes.
• Excellent drafting skills and the ability to produce clear, commercially relevant advice.
• Confident in leading client calls and meetings, with a track record of contributing to business development and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
• Awareness of regulatory changes affecting financial institutions.