Employment Law Manager

About the role

PwC's legal services team offers comprehensive legal advice to internal stakeholders and clients, helping organisations stay compliant and minimise legal risk. This management-level Employment Law Manager leads a team delivering employment law advice, including contentious and non-contentious matters, workforce change projects and investigations, and collaborates with other PwC teams on transactions.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and manage contentious and non-contentious employment law matters, including high-value mandates, with senior oversight where required
• Lead workforce change projects such as restructuring, redundancies, transfers and changes to terms and conditions, often across multiple jurisdictions
• Oversee high-profile non-financial misconduct investigations and give employee relations advisory, partnering with HR, Reward, Compliance and senior leadership
• Draft, review and oversee legal documentation under the laws of England and Wales and cross-jurisdictional documents
• Collaborate with Tax, Deals and Workforce colleagues on domestic and cross-border transaction workstreams
• Prepare plain-English advice notes on risks, mitigations and negotiation positions, and liaise with clients and internal stakeholders
• Act as the day-to-day escalation point for complex matters, guide junior lawyers and lead team delivery against agreed SLAs
• Allocate work, review outputs, manage matters profitably and coordinate multi-jurisdictional projects
• Supervise and coach juniors, support performance management, design client training and contribute to pitches and proposals
• Maintain playbooks, templates and resources, support compliance processes and meet SLA turnaround times

Required profile

• LLB or equivalent legal qualification and admission as an attorney in South Africa or an equivalent common law jurisdiction
• 5-7 years' post-qualification experience in employment law, in a law firm, in-house team or professional services environment
• Experience leading the employment workstream on transactions and large-scale change programmes, and managing client relationships
• Proven people management experience leading junior lawyers, associates and senior associates, with demonstrated business development and matter management skills

Required skills

• Project management tools and legal technology, including process improvement and technology-enabled delivery
• Strong negotiation, communication and coaching skills