Employment Lawyer

LAW Absolute is working with a leading FMCG organisation to recruit an experienced Employment Lawyer for a permanent, fully remote role. This is a great opportunity to join a fast‑paced, commercial business with an international footprint across EMEA.

The Role

You’ll act as a trusted advisor to the business, providing pragmatic employment law support across multiple jurisdictions. Working closely with HR and senior stakeholders, you’ll support day‑to‑day employee relations matters as well as strategic projects in a dynamic, high‑growth environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Providing employment law advice across the EMEA region (essential), including the UK and EU
• Supporting on employee relations issues, restructures, disciplinary and grievance matters
• Advising on employment contracts and policies
• Supporting M&A activity, TUPE transfers, and workforce change programmes
• Managing external counsel across jurisdictions as required
• Partnering with HR and business leaders to deliver commercially focused legal solutions

About You

• Qualified lawyer (UK or equivalent) with strong employment law expertise
• Demonstrable EMEA / international employment law experience
• Experience working in‑house, ideally within FMCG, consumer, retail, or fast‑moving sectors
• Commercial, pragmatic approach with the ability to operate remotely and independently
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills

Working through LAW Absolute

As the first recruitment agency to specialise only in placing interim lawyers, LAW Absolute has a long history in supporting lawyers who want to work flexibly and in control of their career.

We are able to offer our contractors a range of challenging opportunities across private practice, corporates, financial services and within the not-for-profit sector. With over 20 years of placing contract lawyers in these markets, we have built excellent networks and many of the lawyers that we work with are contract lawyers that we have successfully placed on multiple assignments, allowing them to work with autonomy and build their career in the way they choose to. For our clients, we have worked closely with legal teams to help them plan and manage delivery of their services in a more efficient way in terms of resources, costs and timescales.

Please note our advertisements use PQE/salary levels purely as a guide. However we are happy to consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfil the role.

At LAW Absolute we endeavour to respond to all applications within 48 hours. However due to the volume of applications we receive we may not be able to respond to every candidate individually.

If you have not heard from us within a 48 hour timeframe your application has not been successful and your details have not been retained. LAW Absolute acts as an employment business for temporary recruitment and as an employment agency for fixed term contract and permanent recruitment.