Senior Director, Employment Legal (EMEA and APAC)
The Senior Director, Employment Legal (EMEA and APAC) at Monks will lead the employment legal function across the EMEA and APAC regions, providing strategic guidance to support a growing, dynamic, multinational workforce. This role involves aligning global employment law strategies with regional requirements, business objectives, and company values. The position is based in London, Europe.
Key responsibilities include leading, mentoring, and developing the employment legal team to ensure consistent, high-quality advice across regions and jurisdictions. The role also involves serving as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on complex, high-impact employment matters, providing strategic legal guidance on hiring, workforce management, and reorganisations. Additionally, the Senior Director will partner with colleagues in NAMER and LATAM to ensure global consistency of policies and stakeholder management, manage external legal counsel, and design and implement employment policies with appropriate local customisation.
The ideal candidate should be a qualified lawyer in England & Wales with at least 8 years of post-qualification experience, demonstrating experience working across multiple jurisdictions in APAC and EMEA. A self-starter capable of shaping the direction of regional and global legal functions, with a strategic mindset to provide pragmatic and commercial advice in a fast-moving environment, is essential. The candidate should possess a working knowledge of employment laws across multiple jurisdictions in a global, matrixed organisation, significant prior in-house experience, and excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels. Experience in employment litigation is also required.
While specific compensation details are not provided, Monks offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including opportunities for professional development and growth within the company. The company fosters an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive, proactively working to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. Monks celebrates diversity and is committed to building a team that reflects the communities it serves.
Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4 Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global Marketing and Technology Services to redefine how brands interact with the world. Through Monks.Flow, its flagship AI ecosystem for marketing orchestration, Monks transforms marketing into a growth engine, collapsing timelines and connecting brands to culture in real time. By deploying bespoke intelligent agents across disciplines and delivering culturally relevant, high-impact creative and digital solutions, Monks solves key critical business challenges across the entire brand enterprise to help brands sustain long-term impact.