In-house Legal Counsel - Employment and Business Governance

What's the role? At Hilti, people sit at the heart of everything we do—and as our In House Legal Counsel specialising in Employment and Business Governance, you’ll play a pivotal role in guiding and empowering our team across Great Britain and beyond. This is your chance to step into a dynamic, internationally connected environment where your advice influences strategy, strengthens decision making, and helps drive commercial success.

What You'll do In this varied and impactful role you will:

• Partner with our HR team to anticipate, identify, and manage emerging legal and contentious people issues.
• Support the wider business by reviewing, advising on, and negotiating a range of governance topics—including indirect procurement, company records, and Health & Safety coordination
• Engage and act as an interface with the Corporate Legal Department of Hilti Corporation.
• Select and steer outside counsel as required
• Be an active member of Hilti’s Legal & Compliance team based in Central Manchester
  
  

What You’ll Bring

• Full legal qualification with hands-on experience of employment law in the UK

Experience in tribunal claims or disputes, and/or dispute resolution

Experience in a legal department of a multi-national company or an international law firm

Entrepreneurial, target-oriented way of thinking; strong communication skills; team player with self-dependent work-style; ability to work under pressure and manage competing priorities

Role

The above are the essential criteria for the role and we encourage you to apply if you meet them. The nice-to-haves are:

• Admission as solicitor or Barrister for England and Wales
• Post-graduate degree such as MBA, LL.M. or admission to the bar of a foreign jurisdiction
• Relevant experience in a related industry sector
  
  

What’s In It for You Genuine career advancement (more than 80% of all leadership roles are filled internally)

6% employer pension contributions

Private Health Insurance and Employee Assistance Programme

33 days' holiday (inc. Bank Holidays) plus the ability to purchase 5 days more annually

Paid leave to work on charitable projects

Hilti Benefits Box, a reward platform offering a cycle to work scheme and shopping and lifestyle discounts/cashback

Employee resource groups focused on gender, mental health, race, disability, LGBTQ+ and sustainability topics

Trips to locations such as Milan, New York and global HQ for high performers across all teams

Why Hilti

Hilti is a global leader in construction innovation, with more than 34,000 team members across 120 countries. Guided by our purpose, Making Construction Better, we’re driven to keep learning, growing, and finding new ways to make a lasting impact. Here, you’ll be empowered to use your strengths, work with a global and inclusive team, and take on meaningful challenges. At Hilti, you’ll have the chance to make your ideas, achievements, and growth real through purpose, passion, and teamwork.

Commitment to Inclusion At Hilti, inclusion is a key focus in how we work, lead, and grow together. We are committed to embracing diversity of thought and creating an environment that is inclusive of everyone, everywhere. We continuously strive to ensure every voice is valued and every team member feels empowered to contribute. By building on this foundation, we strengthen our teams, our innovation, and our impact, making construction better together.

Legal Notice What you can expect when applying to a position with Hilti:

• We are committed to having all applications reviewed by a human and while nobody is infallible, we stand by our people centric approach to everything we do

Once you submit your application you can expect to receive automated notifications from our system (triggered by our recruiting team)

Applications that do not make it to the interview stage (with a hiring manager) will not receive personalized feedback.

Our end-to-end recruitment process (including evaluation time and interviews) may last between 3 and 6 weeks. You can expect to hear back from us within 2-3 weeks (on average) regardless of outcome

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