Within our vivid, growing & innovative organisation, you’ll be providing day-to-day legal advice and support to Human Resources and management handling mainly employment-related legal issues including compliance, individual and collective employment rights, discrimination, migration law and litigation. Your support ranges from drafting (employment) agreements, policies, letters and handbooks and best practices, to advise on recruitment and hiring and day-to-day employment issues, employee relations and participation, discipline and terminations, to assist with employee investigations, to negotiate with the works council and unions and to advise on and coordinate responses to region-specific legal requirements, to monitor case law, upcoming legislation and implement such and to prepare and conduct trainings to HR. Next to that, you’ll coordinate external legal support in this context.

Amongst all, within this role, you can expect:

• A challenging and dynamic role with lots of growth & development opportunity, working very closely with the business.

• To maintain in house employment law support overseeing all employment law matters and coordinating external legal support.

Your profile:

• A minimum of 5 years’ relevant work experience as a lawyer and/or as in-house counsel

• Substantial knowledge of and experience with employment law (compensation & benefits, works council/unions, pensions, immigration, health & safety)

• Pragmatic business partner with great organizational, analytical, entrepreneurial and communicational skills

• High degree of independence, initiative and decisiveness

• Fluent in Dutch and English, both written and spoken

What we offer

• 25 days of annual leave, with the option to buy or sell up to 4 additional days

• Hybrid work model, combining office and remote working

• Possibility to work from abroad for up to 2 weeks per year

• An international work environment, working with teams across different countries

• Travel allowance to support commuting costs

• Access to the Hunkemöller Academy for professional development

• 25% employee discount on all Hunkemöller products

Please note: We take care of our recruitment directly at Hunkemöller. For this reason, we kindly ask agencies not to reach out, and applications sent by email cannot be considered. If you’re interested in this role, we’d love to receive your application via our official career channels.