Senior Director, Employment Legal (EMEA and APAC)

Senior Director Employment Legal

As a Senior Director Employment Legal you’ll lead the employment legal function across our EMEA and APAC regions, providing strategic guidance to support a growing, dynamic, multinational workforce. We are looking for someone who is passionate about seeking new opportunities to create impactful work.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop the employment legal team, ensuring consistent, high-quality advice across regions and jurisdictions.
• Align the global employment law strategy with EMEA and APAC requirements, business objectives, and company values.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on complex, high-impact employment matters.
• Provide strategic legal guidance across EMEA and APAC on hiring, workforce management, and reorganisations.
• Partner with colleagues in NAMER and LATAM to ensure global consistency of policies and stakeholder management.
• Manage external legal counsel and develop a strategic framework for their engagement.
• Design and implement employment policies, processes, and frameworks with appropriate local customisation.
• Monitor employment law developments to ensure timely updates to internal policies and practices.
• Oversee workplace investigations, employee complaints, disputes, and employment-related litigation.
• Support complex cross-border matters, including post-merger integrations and workforce transitions.
• Provide guidance on employee mobility, contractor classification, and immigration-related issues.
• Deliver training programmes for managers and HR partners on employment law topics and emerging risks.

About You

The essentials:

• Qualified lawyer in England & Wales (8+ PQE preferred).
• Demonstrable experience working across multiple jurisdictions in APAC and EMEA.
• A self-starter capable of shaping the direction of regional and global legal functions.
• A strategic thinker able to give pragmatic and commercial advice in a fast-moving environment.
• Working knowledge of employment laws across multiple jurisdictions in a global, matrixed organisation.
• Significant prior in-house experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Employment litigation experience.

Not a must, but a plus:

• Qualifications in other jurisdictions.
• Experience managing employment matters in other regions (NAMER/LATAM).
• Prior experience shaping regional or global employment legal functions.
• Media/advertising industry experience.

At Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.