**JOB PROFILE**
Job Position: Lead Employment Counsel - Americas
Function: Legal
Reports to: Senior Employment Counsel - Americas
Scope: Spanish speaking LatAm
Location: Mexico City (Powerhouse)
**Business Context**
The Employment Legal function sits within the Corporate Centre and provides employment law support to enable Unilever to deliver its business objectives while appropriately managing risk. This is a new team within the Legal function. Unilever’s Legal function consists of around 400 lawyers and specialists globally.
We are looking to hire an expert Lead Counsel who can lead the provision legal support for the full range of employment law issues which impact Unilever’s business across Spanish speaking Latin America.
**Main Purpose**
**Lead employment law legal support across Spanish speaking Latin America**
- Partner with HR teams and other stakeholders to provide support for all contentious and non-contentious employment law work.
- Working with the IR/ER team to provide advice on employee relations matters, including issues related to collective bargaining and trade unions.
- Providing expert advice and input in relation to integral projects, policies and other initiatives.
- Supporting the Business Integrity team in relation to employment related investigations and other compliance issues.
- Responsibility for the engagement and use of outside counsel across the region, including managing to a budget.




- Proactively identifying, addressing and managing legal risk issues related to employment law.
- Keeping up to date on employment law developments and providing thought leadership as to the impact on Unilever
- Conducting training and building knowhow as required for both HR and non-HR colleagues.
**Essential Skills & Relevant Experience**
- Qualified lawyer in Mexico with significant experience advising organisations on employment law issues across Spanish speaking Latin America.
- Deep experience advising in relation to the full range of employment issues, including trade union and other collective issues, on a cross-border basis.
- Experience in working in a complex multinational organisation - either directly or on a secondment basis.
- Demonstrable experience of driving change
- Ability to operate and exercise judgement independently
- Ability to influence and manage multiple internal and external stakeholders. Ability to deliver through others and with limited resources.
- Ability to engage on technical topics and communicate them in a clear and easy-to-understand manner.
- Experience in preparing executive briefings and presentations.
- Ability to translate global strategies locally.
- Comfortable with uncertainty, able to exercise judgement in a fast-moving environment.
- Fluent in Spanish and English

📌 Regional Lead Counsel - Americas (Bosques de las Lomas)
🏢 Unilever
📍 Bosques de las Lomas