Head of Employment Law

Just Eat Takeaway.com; Wealden; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a senior employment and labour law leader to align global HR and legal frameworks across markets, guiding employee relations and governance. You will translate complex regulations into practical playbooks, lead a cross-border team, and collaborate with senior stakeholders to uphold compliant, consistent policies across all markets.

You will build templates and guidance, oversee external counsel and labour authorities, and drive high-quality delivery while

Qualifications

• Fully qualified in law with expertise in employment and labour law across multiple countries.
• Strong judgement on contentious people matters and labour relations.
• Experience advising HR and executives on complex employment scenarios.
• Ability to translate complex regulations into practical guidance and policies.
• Excellent stakeholder management with cross-functional collaboration.
• Experience overseeing external counsel and labour authority relations.
• Collaborative leadership and coaching to develop the team.

Responsibilities

• Lead central legal support for global employment and labour matters.
• Partner with senior HR and management on employee relations and investigations.
• Define employment law guidance, templates, and guardrails.
• Oversee works councils and labour authority relations.
• Monitor international employment developments and translate into policies.
• Coordinate external counsel for transnational reorganisations.
• Lead and coach the employment legal team.

Skills

Employment law

Labour law

Multi-country scope

Stakeholder management

Policy development

Leadership coaching

Education

Qualified lawyer (UK)

Job description

Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you.

We’re a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience. Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

As our central legal thought leader for employment and labour matters, you will lead the strategic alignment of Human Resources (HR) and legal frameworks across our global markets. Joining our dynamic Central Legal team, you will act as a key partner to senior stakeholders, embodying our core values to Lead, Deliver, and Care as you build legal guardrails, support employee relations, and protect our global people strategy.

These are some of the key components to the position:

• Lead central legal support for global employment and labour matters, translating strategic HR goals into effective legal frameworks.
• Partner closely with senior HR and management teams on employee relations, reorganisations, disciplinary matters, and litigation strategies.
• Define clear employment law guidance, templates, and guardrails for recurring people processes and complex case management.
• Oversee legal support for works councils and labour authorities, managing central escalations and approvals.
• Monitor international employment legal developments and translate regulatory changes into actionable policies and playbooks.
• Coordinate external counsel and manage complex transnational reorganisations in a efficient, consistent manner across all markets.
• Lead and coach the employment legal team, empowering team members while maintaining high-quality delivery standards.

What will you bring to the team?

• Full legal qualification with proven expertise in employment and labour law within a multi-country environment.
• Strong judgement on contentious people matters, labour relations, and workforce risk management.
• Proven capability advising HR and executive leaders on complex, non-routine employment scenarios.
• Ability to translate complex legal regulations into clear, practical guidance, playbooks, and organizational policies.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with experience collaborating across HR, market leadership, and central legal teams.
• Experience overseeing external counsel engagement, labour authority relations, and complex litigation handling.
• Collaborative leadership and coaching capabilities focused on supporting and developing team members.

At JET, this is how we play

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.

Being the best at what we do isn’t just about delivering on our strategy. It’s a competition for something incredibly valuable – our customers’ choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they’re picking a side.

At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers’ loyalty, again and again.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, we’re building a customer-first culture which enables us to stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

What else is cooking?

Want to know more about our JETers, culture or company? Have a look at our career site where you can find people’s stories, blogs, podcasts and more JET morsels.