BCG - Senior Legal Counsel - Employment Lawyer (6-12 yrs)

Senior Legal Counsel - Employment Lawyer

Who We Are

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures-and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

- Grounded by our values and guided by our purpose, BCGers unlock the potential of those who advance the world.

- Our Global Legal Team is a key enabler of our firm's success, helping to drive impact and progress across a number of important dimensions.

- As a Legal team member, you will work across BCG teams and functions to support our business strategy, provide counsel and expertise, drive legal innovation, and leverage the power of new ways of working.

- As part of BCG's global team of employment lawyers, you will continue to build the centre of employment expertise within, and provide support on employment legal matters predominantly within India as well as other regional/global projects as required.

- Based from our office in Gurgaon, you will cover the full range of employment legal advisory support including onboarding, offboarding and everything in between, global and local HR processes/documents, investigations, disputes, regulatory issues relating to employment, mobility and immigration matters, and any other advisory support as required;

- Partner with other members of BCG's global employment centre of expertise (CoE) on global projects, with the opportunity to lead such projects for the CoE;

- Coordinate closely with all HR teams within India, across multiple business units, to help support a consistent approach to policies and decision-making across the global organization, with a keen eye on risk mitigation;

- Team successfully across BCG and integrate fully into BCG's Global Legal Team (especially cross teaming with the commercial, privacy, supplier contracting and other legal teams) to resolve or support resolution of complex HR and employment legal issues (both internally and matters where it could interface with external parties);

- Contribute to developing and maintaining Legal Team intellectual property, including template forms, and other materials;

- Work with and direct external counsel as required; and,

- Perform other duties as assigned or required.

- In all cases, BCG's Senior Legal Counsel will be an exceptional lawyer, able to clearly, responsibly and efficiently deliver high quality work, and will have substantial experience in providing clear, practical, commercially sound, strategic, and outcome-based solutions to all levels of stakeholders on various people related matters.

What You'll Bring:

- India qualified employment lawyer. Additional employment legal experience in other countries within Asia Pacific not required but viewed favorably;

- 6-8+ years of total PQE experience, with at least 4+ years PQE of practicing labour and employment law as your sole remit (candidates outside of this range may be considered if you have at least 3+ years PQE of practicing as an employment lawyer;

- Candidates with regional/commercial/general counsel experience without experience in an employment legal role will not be considered);

- Prior in-house experience preferred within a complex international organization, preferably professional services or similar industry;

- Comfortable presenting to both large and small audiences;

- Must be fully fluent in English, with excellent grammar;

- Preference to those with experience servicing international stakeholders and/or those with experience working within international offices;

- Gravitas to influence and persuade senior/challenging stakeholders.