Title: Sr Corporate Counsel - Employment and Compliance
Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.
Wipro UK&I:
We have a powerful presence in the United Kingdom and Ireland, where we work with the countries’ leading organizations to help their businesses transform and create value. Our consultants are market leaders in digital, industry, and IT transformation. We support our clients with deep expertise in cloud, AI, analytics, business application services, infrastructure, cybersecurity, business process, and product engineering services.
Enabled by our heritage of technological excellence and an extensive global knowledge and expertise network, our employees serve clients in the following sectors: banking, financial services, and insurance; consumer; energy, natural resources, and utilities; engineering and construction; communications; healthcare, life sciences, and services; and manufacturing and technology.
In the United Kingdom, we have the headquarter in central London, with ten development centers and four digital pods across England and Scotland. We have four Dublin, Shannon, and Galway offices in Ireland, including a digital design pod.
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Your Responsibilities:
- Provide legal counsel, support, and training on complex legal and business questions with a strong focus on employment and compliance topics.
- Assisting the HR team with conflict resolution and mediation
- Representing the company in employment court cases
- Monitoring and identifying changes in employment laws as well as generally non-compliance issues, researching implications and suggesting available courses of action and resolution.
- Design and deliver training to employees and management.
- Interacting with business teams and advising on contracts with a focus on regulatory and governance topics.
- Enhance and expand legal and compliance processes, tools, and templates.
- Working closely with HR and management teams for consistent enforcement of policies.
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Role Demands:
- Completed law degree with a focus on employment law in a European jurisdiction
- Several years of professional experience in employment law, ideally in a legal firm or corporate legal department.
- Ability to anticipate and avert downstream legal risk.
- Exceptional analytical skills; IT industry specific expertise.
- Strong business and organizational skills as well as the ability to multi-task with HR, Finance and business teams.
- Should possess effective drafting and communication skills.
- Excellent written and spoken English language skills. Additional languages will be a plus.
- The ability to effectively work with internal clients/external customers is critical.
- The candidate should have excellent analytical and interpersonal skills with ability to motivate and supervise.
- High level of integrity, professionalism, and attention to detail.
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What we offer:
- A stimulating and supportive work environment with an international and collaborative team of professionals.
- Responsible for a wide range of employment and compliance related legal and regulatory issues.
- Long-term perspective for your professional career in a growing, future-oriented global IT company.
- Opportunities for ongoing professional development, including trainings, seminars, and conferences.
- Competitive salary and attractive benefits package.
- The chance to make a meaningful impact within a growing company and to develop your career in employment law.
- Very high social and cultural engagement of the organization through the Azim Premji Foundation which is reflected in our corporate culture.
- Location will be London.
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Reinvent your world. We are building a modern Wipro. We are an end-to-end digital transformation partner with the boldest ambitions. To realize them, we need people inspired by reinvention. Of yourself, your career, and your skills. We want to see the constant evolution of our business and our industry. It has always been in our DNA - as the world around us changes, so do we. Join a business powered by purpose and a place that empowers you to design your own reinvention. Come to Wipro. Realize your ambitions.
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