Senior Legal Counsel Employment UK

Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience.

Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

This role protects JET's people agenda by bringing senior legal judgement to complex employment and labour matters. It improves consistency in case handling, reduces litigation and regulatory risk, and helps HR and market teams make confident decisions on sensitive workforce issues.

These are some of the key components to the position:

• Lead senior-level legal support for employment and labour matters in the UK and other markets, including complex employee relations, disputes and litigation.
• Advise HR, Operations and market leadership on non-routine employment issues, reorganisations, disciplinary matters, workforce policies and labour risk.
• Define practical legal positions, escalation thresholds and recommended actions for sensitive matters with financial, operational or reputational exposure.
• Manage external counsel and coordinate litigation, authority engagement and settlement activity where required.
• Develop and maintain templates, guidance and playbooks that improve consistency in employment case handling.
• Monitor relevant legal developments and translate them into practical updates for HR and business stakeholders. Coach more junior colleagues on employment law analysis, documentation quality and matter management where needed.

What will you bring to the team?

• Qualified lawyer with a proven track record of employment or labour law experience in the UK jurisdiction is required.
• Experience advising HR and business leaders on complex employee relations, disputes and litigation is required.
• Strong judgement on sensitive people matters, escalation decisions and reputational risk is required.
• Ability to translate legal requirements into workable policies, templates and operational guidance is required.
• Experience managing external counsel, courts, tribunals or labour authorities is required.
• Experience in a multi-country, marketplace, logistics or operationally complex business is preferred.
• Whilst UK employment law will be the main focus of this role, being comfortable in researching and advising on international matters and country specific matters outside of the UK will be required.
• Proficiency in AI use and implementation to streamline tasks and processes is preferred.

At JET, this is how we play

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.

Being the best at what we do isn’t just about delivering on our strategy. It's a competition for something incredibly valuable – our customers' choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they're picking a side.

At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers’ loyalty, again and again.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, we’re building a customer-first culture which enables us to stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

What else are we delivering?

Want to know more about our JETers, culture or company? Have a look at our career site where you can find people's stories, blogs, podcasts and more JET journeys.

Are you ready to join the team? Apply now!