Senior Director, Counsel, Labor & Employment

JOB OVERVIEW:

Represent HSI and its subsidiaries in a broad array of Labor and Employment legal matters.  Provide high-quality, responsible, and efficient legal advice and counsel to the Company’s respective business units.  Identify, analyze, and assist in developing legal solutions for many diverse and complex business and legal issues.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Provide advice, counseling and support to HR Business Partners, HR’s Centers of Excellence, and the business units on various labor and employment topics, including, but not limited to, employee terminations, performance management, investigations, leaves of absence, reasonable accommodations, restructuring, employee benefits, immigration, wage and hour, and executive compensation. 
• Supervise Sr. Associate Counsel of Labor & Employment and effectively communicate employment advice and counsel with the Company’s senior leadership team as well as with other of the Company’s constituents in areas including HR, Compensation, Benefits and Payroll teams, business leaders, and third parties.
• Develop and implement strategy on pre-litigation and litigation matters.
• Supervise outside counsel on employment litigation matters.
• Manage legal risks and provide solutions for resolving employment disputes.
• Draft, edit and review employment-related documents, correspondence, policies, agreements, and responses to agency proceedings (i.e., OSHA, EEOC).
• Supervise employment related projects, including internal process reviews, new policies and implementation, and training programs.
• Develop trainings related to employment law matters, including researching changes in employment laws and regulations, preparing PowerPoints, creating templates, and presenting before the HR team and business leaders.

• Keep current on recent developments in employment law and evolving best practices; maintain strong relationships with cross-functional stakeholders to provide training and updates as needed; assist in implementing proactive compliance. Provide legal support for the Company’s diversity and inclusion efforts.
• Provide advice and counsel with respect to enforceability of restrictive covenants and draft and negotiate restrictive covenant agreements.
• Supervising monitoring and compliance with wage and hour issues (including DOL audits) and federal contractor compliance (including OFCCP audits, equal employment opportunity and affirmative action requirements).
• Advising the Company with respect to employment law related matters in domestic and international M & A transactions, including facilitating the due diligence process and assisting in drafting, reviewing and negotiating employment-related agreements.  

KNOWLEDGE:

Mid-level professional with expert knowledge of Labor and Employment law.  Expected to operate autonomously within area of expertise.  Assignments are self-initiated, broad in nature and require excellent judgment and advanced analytical ability, evaluation, originality and ingenuity to solve.  Ability to resolve a wide range of highly complex issues and assignments in efficient and effective ways.  Fully accountable for work product and managing clients’ matters and expectations.  Serve as a resource to business TSMs in multiple divisions to resolve complex problems and issues.  Serve as a resource and mentor to junior attorneys and other members of the team.  Role includes creation and ownership of processes.  Plays lead role in high-level projects.  Exposure to senior management and may have exposure to Board of Directors. Barriers to entry may exist at this level.

COMPLEXITY: 

Work on significant and complex issues where analysis of situations and legal factors requires a complicated, in-depth review.  Exercise complete independent judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.  Proactively identify, define and solve complex problems or to otherwise improve the business.  Network with key senior internal and external personnel inside and outside own area of expertise; create formal networks involving coordination among groups.  Lead cross divisional projects.

SUPERVISION: 

Determine methods and procedures on complex, new or special assignments and work independently. Work reviewed through consultation and agreement with others rather than formal review from superior.  Operate with substantial latitude for un-reviewed action or decision.  May act as a resource to formally train and mentor TSMs with less experience.  Assignments are broad in nature. Responsible for internal client relationships and outside counsel relationships and budget.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

This position requires a minimum of 7+ years of law firm or in-house experience post