Legal Shared Services Manager, Employment (EMEA)
arrow · PL-Gdansk, Poland (Aleja Grunwaldzka) ·
- Employment
- Full time
- Category
- Management
Position:
Legal Shared Services Manager, Employment (EMEA)Job Description:
ABOUT THE ROLE:
This role oversees centralized legal administrative functions, optimizing workflows, implementing legal technology (e.g., intake, automation), and supporting legal staff to provide efficient support across business units in Europe. The role will operate out of the Company’s office in Poland. This role requires expertise in legal operations, process improvement, and stakeholder management to drive cost savings and high-value service delivery.
WHAT YOU WILL DO:
- Operational Leadership: Manage day-to-day operations of the legal shared services team, ensuring timely and efficient delivery of legal services to internal clients.
- Legal Support Scope: Support the primary legal contact for employment matters in Europe. Research and track complex and evolving labor laws and regulatory landscape in the country.
- Templates and forms: Work with attorneys to draft templates, correspondence, reports, and other legal memoranda.
- Process Improvement & Automation: Identify, develop, and implement workflow automation and legal technology solutions to support global tracking and integration of shared legal templates, legal investigation notes and reports, and other shared legal tasks.
- Compliance & Risk Management: Support legal services with implementing and tracking updates to company policies and practices based on applicable legal regulations and industry standards.
- Training. Support legal team with scheduling and organizing training for business units.
- Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with internal business units, acting as a liaison to ensure service alignment.
- KPI Tracking: Establish and monitor performance metrics (KPIs) to evaluate and improve service efficiency.
WHO YOU ARE:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, or a related field (A legal/paralegal qualification or equivalent experience is highly preferred).
- Experience: 6–8 years of professional experience in employee relations, legal shared services, or employment operations.
- International Scope: Demonstrable experience managing multi-country employment issues and labor frameworks.
- Language: Full professional proficiency in English and Polish (written and spoken) is required. Proficiency in other languages is highly preferred.
- Knowledge Base: Strong foundational understanding of EMEA employment laws and works council structures.
- Skills: Strong knowledge of legal processes, document management, and compliance across multiple jurisdictions.
- Technology: Proficiency in legal technology (e.g., Navex, Practical Law, etc.).
KEY COMPETENCIES:
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Proactive, solution-oriented mindset with strong project management capability.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, multi-cultural environment.
WHAT WE OFFER:
- Competitive salary package
- Hybrid work model and flexible working hours
- Private medical care (Medicover) and MyBenefit platform (Multisport included)
- Career development in a stable international company
- Opportunity to work in a global and collaborative environment
- Exposure to regional and international projects across Europe and beyond
WHO WE ARE:
Arrow Electronics, an award-winning Fortune 133 and one of Fortune Magazine’s Most Admired Companies. Enabling technology solutions that help improve business and daily life, Arrow guides innovation forward for over 220,000 leading technology manufacturers and service providers.
With a global network of suppliers, engineers, and manufacturers, Arrow is the shortest distance between what’s possible and what’s practical. Our broad portfolio that spans the entire technology landscape helps customers create, make, and manage forward-thinking products that make the benefits of technology accessible to as many people as possible.
Submit your CV in English.
Arrow is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to create a diverse working environment by providing equal employment opportunity for all qualified persons.
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