Employment Legal Counsel

About the role

We are looking for a colleague to mainly help with global projects and to provide some local employment law advice.

Your responsibilities include:

• Prepare presentations and legal analysis on global employment law topics;
• Provide timely, high quality legal advice on employee matters and clearly articulating legal risks and opportunities;
• Advise and support HR, and other partners on a variety of employment law matters, including the establishment and maintenance of efficient legal processes to follow local law and regulations as well as internal requirements;
• Drafting, review and negotiation of a wide range of HR related agreements and legal documents

About the team

We are a multi-jurisdictional team composed of legal counsels based in locations across globe (including Slovakia), coordinating and providing employment law support to HR globally.

Would this position be exiting for you? Just check further below.

About You

• professional qualification to practice law with a strong background in employment law;
• keen interest in translating employment law requirements into business;
• ability to run multiple projects or cases in parallel, have strong project and process management skills and be able to prioritize and coordinate.
• curious to learn about other countries, interested in comparing and analyzing similarities as well as differences in various locations across world and navigation through those;
• strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to connect the dots and create for internal partners a picture out of single smaller pieces;
• agile, flexible, open-minded, hands on and can-do approach even in complex situations with time pressure;
• analytical, pragmatic, outcome focused;
• ability to work independently but are also a very reliable teammate; team spirit, collaboration;
• accountable, attention to details, take responsibility and ownership;
• proficient in Slovak and English; additional languages are a plus;

Is that you? Then we are very much looking forward to receiving your application and would be delighted to welcome you to the team

The minimum gross monthly base salary for this role is 1 800 EUR full time. Our final offer to you will be set up fairly, considering the skills and experience that you bring to the Swiss Re Group. You can look forward to extra rewards and benefits including an attractive performance-based bonus.

This job offer is suitable for people who have been impacted by the invasion of Ukraine.

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About Swiss Re

Swiss Re is one of the world's leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.