Employment Solicitor: Manchester

International commercial firm is looking to supplement the team with an experienced Employment Solicitor to be based in the Manchester office:

You will be able to take the Lead on maintaining and developing this market leading health sector practice in the North West.

* Undertake a varied workload of employment matters advising employers in a variety of sectors, including retail, health, logistics and insurance.
* Progress and manage a wide variety of client matters both contentious and non-contentious, and of varying complexity and scale. Manage own matters, time and relationships with minimum supervision. Maintain an awareness of the appropriate limits of own competence/authority.
* Actively identify and exploit business development opportunities and marketing activity for team clients and own contacts. Participate in and initiate marketing / network activities in order to maintain and develop work from existing clients and potential clients. This includes presenting and assisting in client and other external seminars, taking part in pitches and contributing positively to business development.
* Maintain and develop technical knowledge through leading and attending training sessions, reading appropriate publications and exceeding Law Society CPD requirements.
* Support the effective running of the team e.g. contributing to team meetings, reviewing reports and documents of more junior fee earners and providing guidance and feedback, assisting with the allocation of work.
* Provide support for colleagues where appropriate e.g. progressing matters in colleagues' absence, supporting CRM activities.
* Continually monitoring and taking responsibility for own financial performance and demonstrating proactive financial management; attention to billing regimes, credit control, debt collection, accounting procedures and client service level agreements.
* Handle confidential data in line with the firm's data security protocols.

Key skills

The candidate should be a solicitor of 5 years or more post qualification experience, from an established respondent focussed practice, who will be able to manage their own work and caseload with minimal supervision. They are looking for someone who is able to lead and develop this market leading health practice in the North West with a view to future promotion based on the success of their efforts.

* Must have experience of handling tribunal claims from start to finish, and supervising others to do the same. Civil and/or appellate court experience (EAT, High Court, Court of Appeal etc) is desirable.
* Must have experience of contentious and non-contentious matters, and preferably experience of advising on major projects involving restructures, M&A, TUPE, collective consultation as well general advisory work with clients on senior level issues, such as executive terminations or restrictive covenant disputes. Work on multi-national issues or immigration experience is also welcomed.
* Good academic record, together with experience in a well-recognised firm.
* Independent thinker with a focus on generating commercial solutions to problems on behalf of clients. Up to date knowledge of key trends in order to maintain credibility in conversations with clients.
* Confident communicator with an ability to develop relationships, undertake client marketing and influence at all levels, in particular HR Director/General Counsel level.
* Enthusiastic team player with a flexible approach, and demonstrates role model behaviours at all times.
* Track record of business development is desirable. Critical to the role is someone who is ambitious in their career and wishes to develop the existing market leading health sector practice in the North West.

Lipson Lloyd Jones Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Please note our advertisements use PQE levels purely as a guide to the minimum level of experience required. However we are happy to consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfill this kind of work.