Head of Employment Law

takeaway; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a central legal thought leader for employment and labour matters to align HR and legal frameworks across our global markets. In this role you will partner with senior HR and management, build guardrails, and support employee relations.

You will define employment law guidance, templates and playbooks, oversee works councils, monitor developments, and coordinate external counsel on complex cross-border restructurings.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Employment law in multi-country env

Stakeholder management

Executive advisory

Policy translation

People leadership

External counsel coordination

Education

Qualified lawyer

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 t his 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 o ur 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 Ta keaway.com. We're c ommitted to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which a ll employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every d ay .

What else is cooking?

Wa nt 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 .