Senior Legal Counsel

🏢 Woodplc
📍 Aberdeen, United KingdomFull-timeHybrid
📅 Posted: 3w ago🔄 Updated: 3w ago
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Wood is seeking an experienced Senior Legal Counsel to join their Legal team on a permanent basis, offering hybrid working. This international role involves providing strategic, commercially focused legal advice on contentious and non-contentious employment matters across multiple jurisdictions. The Senior Legal Counsel will advise business and HR stakeholders on complex employment issues, manage disputes and litigation, support restructurings, oversee external counsel, and manage employment-related legal risk. Responsibilities include developing and delivering employment policies and training, and monitoring legislative developments for compliance.
Required Skills
Other
legal analysisinterpersonal skillsinnovation
Finance, Legal & Governance
Contract DraftingIT GovernanceLegal Research
Soft Skills & Professional Competencies
NegotiationProblem SolvingTime ManagementCommunicationIntegrityResilienceEmpathy
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Clinical Judgment
Business, Sales & Management
Change Management
Nice to have:
Other
legal tech
🎁 Benefits & Perks
33 days annual leave (including public holidays), generous contributory pension scheme, private medical cover, 4x base salary life insurance
Requirements
The ideal candidate will have a law degree and a valid law license, with significant post-qualified experience in employment law, either in-house or in private practice. Strong commercial acumen, legal and analytical skills (negotiation, drafting), and expertise in employment law compliance, workforce governance, and employee relations are essential. The role also requires experience in managing employment disputes, litigation, restructurings, and workforce compliance, as well as experience in drafting and implementing employment policies and managing external counsel across multiple jurisdictions.
Description

Wood has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Employment Lawyer to join our award-winning Legal team as a Senior Legal Counsel on a permanent basis. This role offers hybrid working from our Aberdeen or Reading offices. 

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This is a truly international role supporting Wood's operations across the UK & Europe, the Middle East, Africa, CIS and APAC regions. Working as the lead employment lawyer for the Eastern Hemisphere, you will provide strategic, commercially focused and pragmatic legal advice across a broad spectrum of contentious and non-contentious employment matters on a multi-jurisdictional basis.

The role requires significant experience, autonomy and professional judgement, advising business and HR stakeholders on complex employment issues, managing employment disputes and litigation, supporting restructurings and business change programmes, overseeing external counsel, and ensuring the effective management of employment-related legal risk.

In addition, you will play a role in the development and delivery of employment-related policies, training and guidance, while undertaking horizon scanning and monitoring legislative developments to help ensure ongoing compliance across Wood's diverse jurisdictions.

Our Clients and Projects 

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Wood delivers solutions across more than 60 countries with local offices covering all major energy and materials hubs globally. 

For more than 160 years, we have partnered with clients to deliver engineering, advisory and operational solutions to some of the world’s most complex and critical challenges in energy and materials.

What we can offer

  • Meaningful and interesting projects we support green hydrogen and fuel switching, as well as supporting local clients with energy transition
  • Flexible working arrangements that balance client, team and individual needs offering hybrid working arrangements
  • Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion; we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice
  • Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
  • Flexible benefits package; inclusive of 33 days annual leave (including public holidays), generous contributory pension scheme, private medical cover, 4x base salary life insurance; all of these and more that can be adapted to suit your own lifestyle 
  • Commitment to continued professional development; development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests
  • Global connections; join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession
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