Senior Counsel US & Americas, Employment

Welcome to Haleon. We’re a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we’ve grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter – one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity.

Our trusted portfolio of brands – including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® – lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.

Now it’s time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.

About the Role

As Senior Counsel US & Americas, Employment you will be business partnering through the provision of US employment and labor law advice to the business.

You will be helping the business make pragmatic, commercial and ethical decisions in relation to a broad range of employment and regulatory matters, providing advice and counsel across the full employee life cycle and preventing and proactively leading on demands, charges and lawsuits.
 

Further responsibilities include supporting the continued training, development and tooling of HR to be self-sufficient in day-to-day ER processes.

Additionally, you will support Puerto Rico, Canada and LATAM HR by working with local counsel on matters outside the US and support the global HR Legal service delivery model, both on global projects and individual matters.

We are looking for an individual with a practical approach and a continuous improvement mindset who can combine legal and professional expertise and anticipate and solve problems.

Role Responsibilities:

• Align business partners, including HR, Reward and Employee Relations stakeholders, and manage legal risk.

• Provide legal advice and support implementation of employment-related policies, procedures, and initiatives.

• Manage employment-related demand letters, charges, single plaintiff and class action disputes, arbitrations and mediations and advise on effective management of employee grievances, investigations and ADA issues to minimize legal risk to the Company.

• Support drafting and negotiating broad range of employment-related agreements, analyze employment and compensation-related issues, and provide subject matter expertise on issues related to every aspect of the employment lifecycle.

• Provide general advice regarding employee benefits.

• Identify topics for development of guidance, templates and tools to enable HR to self-serve and be self-sufficient in everyday HR Legal matters.

• Participate in creating and providing training on key employment law risks, changes to the law and best practices. 

• Provide strategic support for HR risk management efforts.

• Engage and manage external legal counsel effectively and ensure that our engagements reflect our inclusion and belonging legal obligations and policies.

• Interface with company employees at all levels, including senior executives and business lawyers. Collaborate with other lawyers on the Global HR Legal team with respect to advice and counselling provided to HR and other business partners.

• Acting as point of escalation on more complex LATAM and Canada matters to provide practical, clear support and guidance to market HR teams where matter does not merit escalation to Head of Global Employment but further support is needed to supplement advice from Outside Counsel.

• Supporting Global HR legal projects, including by facilitating the preparation of market versions of global contract and (where appropriate) policy templates and obtaining market legal advice to support the design and delivery of global projects.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

• Strong academic background, Bachelor’s Degree and Juris Doctorate or equivalent law degree. 

• Must be admitted to practice law and be in good standing with Bar.

• Minimum 6 years legal experience advising clients or Human Resources with employment law matters.

• Experience with workplace investigations and disciplinary actions, wage and hour compliance, contracts (Employment Contract, Non-Compete, Severance Agreements etc.), discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims, and other related employment law matters.

• Excellent influencing and stakeholder management skill