Senior Legal Counsel, Labour Relations

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🕒 June 2

🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👩‍👩‍👧‍👦 Human Resources (HR)

🗣️🇩🇪 German Required

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DSV - Global Transport and Logistics

10,000+ employees

Founded 1976

🚘 Automotive

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

Automotive • Healthcare • Consulting

DSV - Global Transport and Logistics is a global freight forwarding and logistics company providing air, sea, road and rail transport, contract logistics, warehousing and value-added supply-chain services. It operates a large worldwide network of offices and logistics facilities, offers digital tools and connectivity (myDSV, tracking, APIs/EDI) for booking and shipment visibility, and serves industry verticals such as healthcare, automotive, aerospace and consumer goods while pursuing sustainability and innovation initiatives.

📋 Description

• Provide strategic and operational advice on individual and collective employment law matters, including collective bargaining, social security, and wage tax law • Serve as the central employment law contact for designated business areas and independently support them • Negotiate, draft, and harmonize works agreements and group works agreements • Provide employment law support and advice for IT projects and system implementations • Advise on restructurings, operational changes, and business transfers pursuant to Section 613a of the German Civil Code, as well as transformation processes, including reconciliation of interests and social plans • Prepare for and support negotiations with works councils, trade unions, and employee representative bodies for severely disabled employees • Conduct employment litigation, including drafting pleadings, attending court hearings, conducting settlement negotiations, and managing external law firms • Develop and enhance standards, templates, and guidelines • Analyze legislative changes and case law and derive practical recommendations • Depending on experience and seniority: Advise management on complex strategic employment law matters • Depending on experience and seniority: Take a leading role in transformation and employee co-determination projects • Depending on experience and seniority: Further develop and harmonize employment law standards across multiple entities

🎯 Requirements

• Completed degree in law and qualification as a fully qualified lawyer, or a comparable degree with relevant employment law experience, ideally in a corporate or law firm environment • Extensive experience working with employee representative bodies • Strong knowledge of collective employment law and experience working within complex stakeholder structures • Practical experience with IT, digitalization, or transformation projects involving employee co-determination • Strong affinity for IT-related employment law issues • Experience independently advising companies or clients on employment law matters and developing practical, implementation-oriented solutions • Excellent German and fluent, negotiation-level English skills • Confident manner in challenging discussions and negotiations • Excellent communication, collaboration, and conflict-resolution skills • Strong negotiation and influencing skills • Proficiency in MS 365 and digital working environments • Complete application documents

🏖️ Benefits

• Employer-funded savings benefits • Company pension scheme • Employee discounts • DSV employee card with a monthly net allowance • Company bike leasing program • Long-service awards • Supplementary health insurance (depending on division) • Computer glasses • Group accident insurance • Comprehensive onboarding with an individual onboarding plan • A highly engaged and motivated team • Flat organizational structures and an open working environment • Varied responsibilities with substantial decision-making authority at a global company • Modern workplace, including transparent flexitime arrangements • Option to work remotely • Regular professional development courses and training • E-learning programs • Next@DSV employee development programs • Tailored career development programs • Applicants with severe disabilities and those with equivalent status will be given preference where qualifications are equal

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