Legal Counsel (Maternity Cover)

Hunkemöller is looking for a Legal Counsel (Maternity Cover) for a period of 6 months, with a main focus on employment law matters in the broadest sense, to join our international HQ (in Hilversum) part time (32 hours/week) to temporarily cover a maternity leave period. As an experienced employment lawyer, you’ll be working with the General Counsel, but mostly in strong relationship with our HR team and across all relevant business units.

Your tasks

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 (60:40 policy based on your working hours)
• 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, including continuous learning opportunities through various training programs and workshops
• Employee discount on Hunkemöller products: 25% standard discount, with additional sale moments that can increase the discount by an extra 25–35% on selected days