Job Description

Description About this role  Job Purpose/Background: This important Director level Employment Lawyer role will involve the provision of legal support in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) region on the full range of employment law issues which impact on BlackRock’s business in EMEA. There are over 6,100 employees in the EMEA region. While the main focus will be on the UK, there are staff across 20 different jurisdictions in the EMEA region including Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Ireland and Switzerland.The Employment Lawyer role is a key one with the department and the firm and involves working closely with Human Resources across a wide range of contentious and non-contentious work including employee relations items (grievances, performance management, disciplinaries, flexible working applications, redundancies, mutual separation agreements, TUPE transfers, Employment Tribunal and Labour Court litigation, ACAS early conciliation, etc.) and advice to the Recruitment, Mobility, Reward and HR Operations teams.The successful candidate will join a Litigation & Employment team in London of 6 lawyers (within an EMEA Legal & Compliance department of [66] qualified lawyers, [129] compliance professionals and [18] staff in the Chief Operating Office and Administration teams) who are responsible for advising on employment law as well as, on the Litigation side of the team, all aspects of litigation/dispute resolution, regulatory enforcement actions, regulatory investigations, operating events and other contentious items.The individual will work with a high degree of autonomy and, once familiar with the BlackRock structure and operating model, to work with minimum levels of supervision / review of work produced. Whilst the “learning curve” will be steep, the candidate will take on a complete workload promptly after joining and partner with the HR team and the other lawyers in the team. The ability to start soon would also be advantageous.