Wärtsilä is on a journey to restore great performance and simplify the way we do business. To support this, Wartsila HR is in the midst of a transformation towards ONE fit-for-purpose, high-impact HR. Our goal is to add simplicity to the ways of working, increase clarity of roles and responsibilities and bring more speed to decision making through clear ownership and accountability. HR plays an important role in ensuring our Businesses achieve their goals. The development of HR is done together with the businesses. This is also our moment! 

We are now looking for a Legal Counsel to join our team and advise us on employment and labor related matters. In this role you will report directly to the EVP, Human Resources as well as via dotted line to the Deputy General Counsel of Wärtsilä Corporation.  

In your work, you will be focusing on:

• Providing legal advice on a variety of employment related matters on a global basis, related to e.g. international employment and labour law, including claims and handling of employment related cases
• Managing and providing support on employment-related projects that require coordination and consultation with cross-functional teams including Human Resources, Compliance, and Internal Audit
• Partnering with our data privacy experts internally and driving GDPR compliance within HR
• Managing and supporting HR compliance, employee escalations, privileged internal investigations, and compliance audits
• Collaborating effectively across the organisation, your main colleagues being within HR and our legal departments
• Monitoring legislation, regulations, case law, and government enforcement activities relating to the above substantive legal areas, and providing proactive, strategic legal advice regarding labour and employment to relevant stakeholders
• Creating, contributing to and implementing group-level directives and instructions
• Drafting and providing advisory on employment-related documents and processes as well as developing scalable training solutions
• Contributing to the formulation of HR contract and other document templates used in co-ordination with HR local operations
• Raising awareness around relevant employment related matters within Wärtsilä, designing trainings on contractual and legal aspects and contributing to similar initiatives from other experts
• Supporting negotiations with HR related suppliers and contractors together with Indirect Purchasing

About You

We are looking for an experienced legal expert who is a proactive, independent thinker with international HR experience and a strong business sense.

To be successful in this role, we expect you to have:

• A law degree, preferably Master’s level, with a focus on employment and labor law and/or international HR management related issues
• Solid experience in the legal aspects of international HR management, on Europe level as well as ideally from Asia or the Americas
• Excellent negotiation and communications skills
• Demonstrated fluency in English (other language skills can be an advantage)
• Ability to develop strong and productive partnerships with colleagues in HR, business and legal
• Good understanding of the developments within employment, labor law and privacy matters internationally and a genuine interest in staying abreast of any future developments
• Proactive working style with solution-oriented mindset
• An eye for details combined with big picture understanding
• Ability to work in an international, multicultural environment

We would also like to see you:

• Proactively looking for opportunities to partner and co-operate throughout our organization
• Inspire the desired Wärtsilä values in others by leading by example
• Demonstrate a genuine desire to make an impact on Wärtsilä

The position is based at one of our European locations, ideally in Helsinki, Finland.

What we offer you 

We have an amazing team and a clear purpose to exist. We are passionate about the work we do and hope to find a colleague to share our passion for putting people are at the heart of everything we do. We are also offering the unique opportunity to help us to build an entirely new value offering towards the businesses and the possibility to create long term business impact. 

With our Rewarding practices, we drive transparent, fair and equal treatment of our people across the company. Wärtsilä Rewarding principles aim to create value by providing competitive compensation and recognising and rewarding for company and individual performance. Our Employee Benefits aim to build a healthy and sustainable organization and give a boost of energy. We are a diverse community and want to embrace it by being an inclusive employer with flexibility in our benefit offering. We empower our employees to contribute to sustainable societies also through our benefit arrangements. In addition, we want to align our benefit practices to support a culture of high performance and innovation 

All our employees are encouraged to utilise the variety of training activities, learning solutions and self-study materials that we have to offer which supports the opportunity to further develop your talents and competencies within an international working environment, in an ambitious and growth orientated organisation. 

If you feel excited about being part of this dynamic working environment and you think your personal skills and qualities match the job requirements, we look forward to receiving your application, together with a Curriculum Vitae before the application deadline on July 31st by submitting your application through our careers portal. We aim to keep you updated on the process all the way. 

In case you have questions about the open position, please contact Tiia Leino, HR Director (Global Functions) (tiia.leino@wartsila.com).