Corporate Counsel - Employment and Compliance (EMEA)
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Description
About Slalom
Slalom is a global, human-centric business and technology consulting firm. We specialise in partnering with organisations that aspire to excellence, helping them tackle complex challenges and achieve transformative results through strategy, technology and business transformation services. By prioritising people, Slalom creates a unique consulting experience, with a team of strategists and engineers delivering practical, end-to-end solutions that drive impactful outcomes for our clients. We empower people and organisations to dream bigger, move faster and build better tomorrows for all.
About The Role
As our Employment and Compliance Counsel, you'll be a trusted advisor shaping how we support our 500+ EMEA team members across four countries (UK, Germany, Ireland and The Netherlands). Your expertise will directly impact our ability to maintain our award-winning culture while navigating complex multi-jurisdictional challenges.
The EMEA Legal team is led by an Associate General Counsel (to whom you’ll report), and includes two commercial lawyers and a paralegal, together forming part of a Global Legal Team of almost 30 people. Working closely with the EMEA People team, you will be an excellent advisor and partner who is skilled in thinking strategically and advancing practical solutions.
What You'll Love About This Role
Slalom is a global, human-centric business and technology consulting firm. We specialise in partnering with organisations that aspire to excellence, helping them tackle complex challenges and achieve transformative results through strategy, technology and business transformation services. By prioritising people, Slalom creates a unique consulting experience, with a team of strategists and engineers delivering practical, end-to-end solutions that drive impactful outcomes for our clients. We empower people and organisations to dream bigger, move faster and build better tomorrows for all.
About The Role
As our Employment and Compliance Counsel, you'll be a trusted advisor shaping how we support our 500+ EMEA team members across four countries (UK, Germany, Ireland and The Netherlands). Your expertise will directly impact our ability to maintain our award-winning culture while navigating complex multi-jurisdictional challenges.
The EMEA Legal team is led by an Associate General Counsel (to whom you’ll report), and includes two commercial lawyers and a paralegal, together forming part of a Global Legal Team of almost 30 people. Working closely with the EMEA People team, you will be an excellent advisor and partner who is skilled in thinking strategically and advancing practical solutions.
What You'll Love About This Role
- Shaping strategic decisions by providing pragmatic employment law advice that balances risk and innovation with compliance.
- Mastering the art of global consistency while championing local nuance across 4+ EMEA countries.
- Building strong relationships operating at all levels of the organisation; working both independently and as a strong collaborator to drive consensus and appropriate decision-making across teams.
- Using your skills to sensibly assess when to engage external counsel, ensuring their contributions are cost-effective and valuable.
- Collaborating with other legal team members to share best practices and implement risk management strategies.
- Actively monitoring legal changes and using this knowledge to ensure people policies and practices remain compliant. You’ll also be excited by the opportunity to manage our EMEA horizon tracker for all legal matters which is regularly shared with country boards and used to drive cross-functional awareness and change... even better if you’ll keen on using AI to make this more efficient!
- Training internal clients on legal issues, policies and processes in line with company standards. This may on occasion (infrequently) involve travelling to other EMEA offices.
- Qualified lawyer in UK/Europe with, as a guide, 5-9 years' PQE.
- Training from a reputable law firm and, ideally, previous time in-house as an employee/secondee.
- Strong communication and excellent judgment skills.
- Proven ability to deliver solutions meeting legal and business objectives.
- Demonstrated ability to follow through on commitments while handling multiple priorities and deadlines.
Deep connections, better outcomes
We have deep relationships with leading technology partners and they love us for our innovative and outcome based approach. Our people are passionate about solving our clients’ problems using the tech that’s the best solution for them. What’s more, we’re there to work side-by-side with our client teams to enable them for success long after we’ve gone. We’re all about momentum that outlasts us.
Flexibility
Life is busy, and we understand that. Our team often juggles work, family, personal commitments, and crucial client obligations. We prioritise supporting our people in balancing what matters to them while ensuring we meet our client commitments. Flexibility is key, as we sometimes need to adapt to meet client needs. This way, our team can work on high-impact projects they’ll love, knowing they have the flexibility to manage their personal and professional lives effectively.
People-first
Great solutions start with great people. At our employee-led company, your voice matters, and we love to hear your feedback. By leading with kindness, empathy, and striving for equity, we create better experiences for everyone. Our culture encourages passion, adventure, adaptability, and diverse thinking. Inclusion, diversity, and equity are our top priorities, empowering our team to be their best selves. Together, we can create a great future by working collaboratively and supporting each other.
Rewards
There’s no shying away from it - the compensation and benefits on offer must be competitive too, right? We know that. That’s why we have a dedicated team working with our leaders to ensure our packages are fair, competitive, and rewarding!
Who are we... We are Slalom!
Flexibility
Life is busy, and we understand that. Our team often juggles work, family, personal commitments, and crucial client obligations. We prioritise supporting our people in balancing what matters to them while ensuring we meet our client commitments. Flexibility is key, as we sometimes need to adapt to meet client needs. This way, our team can work on high-impact projects they’ll love, knowing they have the flexibility to manage their personal and professional lives effectively.
People-first
Great solutions start with great people. At our employee-led company, your voice matters, and we love to hear your feedback. By leading with kindness, empathy, and striving for equity, we create better experiences for everyone. Our culture encourages passion, adventure, adaptability, and diverse thinking. Inclusion, diversity, and equity are our top priorities, empowering our team to be their best selves. Together, we can create a great future by working collaboratively and supporting each other.
Rewards
There’s no shying away from it - the compensation and benefits on offer must be competitive too, right? We know that. That’s why we have a dedicated team working with our leaders to ensure our packages are fair, competitive, and rewarding!
Who are we... We are Slalom!
Slalom is a next-generation professional services company creating value at the intersection of business, technology, and humanity. With our fiercely human approach, we deeply understand our customers—and their customers—to deliver practical, end-to-end solutions that drive meaningful impact. Supported by over 700 technology partners, our 10,000+ team members in 11 countries and 52 offices we Inspire people and organisations to envision greater possibilities, accelerate progress, and shape a brighter future for everyone.
We’re honoured to be consistently recognised as a great place to work, including being one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work for nine years running. Read more at slalom.com.
Want to learn more? Why not apply? We would love to hear from you! Slalom prides itself on helping our team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in our team members with competitive and innovative benefit programmes and services that meet the unique needs of our diverse workforce.
If you require any assistance with regards to reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to contact us – we will always be happy to help.
We’re honoured to be consistently recognised as a great place to work, including being one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work for nine years running. Read more at slalom.com.
Want to learn more? Why not apply? We would love to hear from you! Slalom prides itself on helping our team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in our team members with competitive and innovative benefit programmes and services that meet the unique needs of our diverse workforce.
If you require any assistance with regards to reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to contact us – we will always be happy to help.