Legal Counsel

Condé Nast is one of the world's most renowned media publishing companies, creating and distributing every type of media today, spanning print and digital publishing in all formats. With a portfolio of some of today's most influential brands, the company continues to grow its audience through a global operational and content infrastructure across its 12 owned and operated markets. Headquartered in New York City, the company's owned and operated markets include China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico & Latin America, Spain, Taiwan, UAE/Dubai, the U.K., and the U.S., with additional local license partners in over twenty additional markets across the globe.

Lead brands include Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Architectural Digest, Condé Nast Traveler, Vanity Fair, Wired, Allure, Ars Technica, Bon Appétit, House & Garden, Pitchfork, Tatler, and Vogue Business.

Job Description

Location:

London, GBThe purpose of this role is to support the Executive Director, International Employment and Compliance with the full range of employee matters, including employee relations, employment lifecycle documentation and employee compliance in all of our international markets. The role will be required to work closely with leaders across the business and become a close partner of the global People Team community.

The role involves providing cross border employment law advice to enable Condé Nast to achieve its business goals. It will also involve supporting the wider Business & Legal Affairs team on ensuring we are embedding a culture of people compliance and investigating issues as they arise.

Specific Responsibilities Supporting the Executive Director, International Employment and Compliance, and providing advice and support on all types of employment and labour law work, across all our international markets. Partnering with our global Condé Nast People Team colleagues to ensure internal legal best practices for managing employee relations.

Supporting employee investigations.

Advising upon individual and collective consultation processes.

Providing advice and support on issues relating to diversity and inclusion.

Supporting advice on day to day employment matters including contract templates, disciplinary and grievance processes, redundancy and restructuring. This will include overseeing employment contracts and exit paperwork where appropriate. Supporting our People Team to address workforce representation related issues, including works councils and other representative bodies.

Keeping up to date with relevant legal and regulatory updates and advising on changes in local law or regulation that may impact policies and procedures.

Supporting the Executive Director, International Employment and Compliance on employment litigation.

Supporting people compliance queries, issues, and people compliance investigations as they arise as well as queries from auditors and regulators.

Preparing and helping draft guidance and training to colleagues on employment law and compliance matters. Working with Business & Legal Affairs team members on instructing and monitoring UK visa applications and on compliance issues relating to our UK visa sponsorship licence, including but not limited to record keeping, and reporting changes alongside our external partner. Working with Business & Legal Affairs team members to enable the global mobility internal policy application, supporting global immigration requirements and liaising with relevant external third parties on our behalf.

Managing external counsel where appropriate.

Skills and Experience Qualified legal professional (with 2+ years PQE preferable). Be passionate about the media industry. Strong experience in UK and International Employment law gained either in private…