Senior Counsel Labor & Employment

-; Remote; SGD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace company seeks a Senior Counsel for Labour and Employment law, based in Singapore. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in the APAC region, advising on both contentious and non-contentious issues. Responsibilities include providing legal advice across regions on various employment matters, managing external counsel, and training HR teams on compliance risks. A strong commitment to integrity and professionalism is essential. Remote position with relocation assistance offered.

Benefits

Relocation assistance

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Labour and Employment law in APAC.
• Experience with mergers and acquisitions, litigation, and advisory work.
• Demonstrated fluency in English and ability to draft legal documents.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice on Labour and Employment issues in APAC.
• Manage external counsel and legal costs.
• Train HR and business teams on compliance risk areas.

Skills

Legal advocacy skills

Negotiation skills

Project management

Interpersonal abilities

Education

Licensed lawyer in a major jurisdiction

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Job Description Summary

This role will cover labour and employment issues across APAC including Singapore, Malaysia, India, Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan and Australia ("covered regions"). The role reports directly to the International Labour & Employment Leader for GE Aerospace, with strong links to the General Counsels for the countries/regions. This role will be based in Singapore; Perth, Australia; Bangalore or Pune, India.

Job Description

Company Overview:

Are you ready to see your career take flight? At GE Aerospace, we believe the world works better when it flies. We are a world-leading provider of jet engines, components, and integrated systems for commercial and military aircraft. We have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen.

Site Overview:

For more than 40 years, GE Aerospace in Singapore has been a trusted partner to the commercial aviation sector in Asia Pacific. Through strategic partnerships, we drive innovation and support the growth of aviation across the Asia Pacific region. The future of flight in the Asia Pacific is filled with the most promising innovations and new possibilities. GE Aerospace stands at the forefront of these advancements.

Role Overview:

Providing legal advice and support on Labour and Employment law issues to GE Aerospace in the covered regions.

• The Senior Counsel will provide legal and compliance advice across a wide range of issues, including, for example:
  • employee and union relations; restructuring, redundancies and outsourcing;
  • equal opportunities and diversity; employment litigation; mergers, acquisitions and divestitures;
  • collective bargaining obligations; employee discipline, performance management, grievances and termination;
  • drafting of employment separation agreements and workplace policies;
  • reviewing and advising on workplace investigations;
  • advising on working time obligations and other minimum statutory benefits.
• Retain and work effectively with outside counsel where required, and manage external counsel to reduce costs.
• Secure value‑added services and improve "make vs buy" decisions.
• Drive simplification initiatives and consistent enterprise standards for Labour and Employment support across the covered regions.
• Training for the HR and business teams on key employment and compliance risk areas.
• Keeping abreast of relevant legal developments across the covered regions.

Ideal Candidate

The Ideal candidate will have 5 years plus experience working for a large multinational corporation across the APAC region, and advising stakeholders on both contentious and non‑contentious issues, with particular focus on the areas set out in the role overview.

Required Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer – licensed to practice in a major jurisdiction within the covered regions.
• Substantial legal post‑qualification labour and employment experience within one of the covered regions, preferably including time spent both with a leading law firm and in‑house with a large multinational corporation, that includes:
  • extensive "hands‑on" labour & employment legal experience, including international experience;
  • substantial experience and success in working with senior management and international environments;
  • experience of labour and employment work on each of M&A activity, litigation, advisory work and training.
• Superior advocacy skills, including the ability to effectively and efficiently communicate in writing and orally, an aptitude for practical negotiation.
• The capability to think clearly and quickly under pressure, and the composure to satisfy multiple and often competing interests.
• A strong commitment to integrity and professionalism, and passion for excellence.
• A work history that affirmatively demonstrates leadership, and ability to persuade and push others to deliver on commitments.
• Demonstrable fluency in English including ability to draft and negotiate and present legal and business documents in English.
• Superior negotiating skills and ability to work in complex international environment, substantial experience working in different cultures and an open and tolerant mind with respect to diversity.
• Demonstrable computer literacy with specific ability to use Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and other software such as redlining tools.
• Strong project management and prioritization skills.
• Record of dedicated and successful teamwork, excellent interpersonal and diplomatic abilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed.
• Strong communicator, decision‑maker, collaborative.
• Analytical‑minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker.

At GE Aerospace, we have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen. Here, you will have the opportunity to work on really cool things with really smart and collaborative people. Together, we will mobilize a new era of growth in aerospace and defense. Where others stop, we accelerate.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes

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