Employment - Senior Associate/legal Director - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - DAC Beachcroft

DAC Beachcroft

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Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Job Introduction

The Employment Pensions and Immigration Team at DAC Beachcroft LLP is one of the largest teams in the UK, over 90 strong with 17 Partners, and a presence in London, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Bristol, as well as Dublin and NI.

We have a strong public sector client base and a thriving and large commercial client base, including a significant number of household names.

The Team advises public, private and third sector employers on human resource issues from daily personnel matters, including disciplinary and grievance issues, to strategic management issues such as collective redundancy programmes, industrial action, and transfers of employees both within and outside the UK.

The Team handles approximately 2,000 Employment Tribunal claims per annum and we are one of the largest users of the Employment Appeals Tribunal.

At DAC Beachcroft we offer "A Life That Works", a way of working which enables our diverse group of colleagues to balance professional responsibilities with personal commitments.

Flex Forward is how we deliver this.

We offer location based working, fully flex and hybrid working, enabling colleagues to work primarily in office, remotely or a mix of the two, which offer the maximum flexibility for each colleague's role.

We also offer a flexible approach to working hours, enabling colleagues to "glide their time", or flex their hours across the day and week with relaxed core hours.

DAC Beachcroft - North

DAC Beachcroft's Northern England offices; Leeds, Manchester and Newcastle EPI teams work closely together, with a focus on providing a seamless service to our client base across the North and nationally.

Together the teams comprise of 5 Partners, and 26 lawyers, giving DAC Beachcroft a market leading powerhouse in the North of the country.

Main Responsibilities

Undertake a varied workload of employment matters advising employers in a variety of sectors, including health and social care, central government, telecommunications, retail, and insurance work.
Progress and manage a wide variety of client matters both contentious and noncontentious, and of varying complexity and scale.
Manage own matters, time and relationships with minimum supervision.
Maintain an awareness of the appropriate limits of own competence/authority.
Actively identify and exploit business development opportunities and marketing activity for team clients and own contacts.
Participate in and initiate marketing / network activities in order to maintain and develop work from existing clients and potential clients.
This includes presenting and assisting in client and other external seminars, taking part in pitches and contributing positively to business development.
Maintain and develop technical knowledge through leading and attending training sessions, reading appropriate publications and exceeding Law Society CPD requirements.
Support the effective running of the team e.g. contributing to team meetings, reviewing reports and documents of more junior fee earners and providing guidance and feedback, assisting with the allocation of work.
Provide support for colleagues where appropriate e.g. progressing matters in colleagues' absence, providing technical supervision and skills development, supporting CRM activities.
Continually monitoring and taking responsibility for own financial performance and demonstrating proactive financial management; attention to billing regimes, credit control, debt collection, accounting procedures and client service level agreements.
Handle confidential data in line with the firm's data security protocols.
Must have experience of handling tribunal claims from start to finish. Supervising others to do the same is desirable, as is civil and/or appellate court experience (EAT, High Court, Court of Appeal etc).
Must have experience of contentious and noncontentious matters, and preferably experience of advising transactional projects involving restructures, TUPE, collective consultation as well general advisory work with clients on senior level or strategic issues, such as executive terminations or collective / industrial relations issues.
Prior experience of working with or advising large institutional employers in heavily regulated sectors (e.g. health, local and central government, PLCs) would be advantageous.
Good academic record, together with experience in a firm dealing with respondent work.
Independent thinker with a focus on generating commercial solutions to problems on behalf of clients. Up to date knowledge of key trends in order to maintain credibility in conversations with clients.
Confident communicator with an ability to develop relationships, undertake client marketing and influence at all levels, in particular HR Director/General Counsel level.
Enthusiastic team player with a flexible approach, and demonstrates role model behaviours at all times.
Track record of business development is desirable.

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