Legal Advisor — Policy Issues & Employment Law

Role Overview

• You are the primary contact for all questions of individual and collective employment law.
• You actively shape developments by drafting collective bargaining agreements, works agreements, interest settlement agreements and social plans, and by supporting their negotiations.
• You provide employment-law support for transactions and restructurings.
• You develop, revise and manage personnel policies, employment contracts and general terms of employment, ensuring a legally secure foundation for our company.
• You represent our company in labor court proceedings and act on behalf of the group companies in all employment-law matters.

Requirements

• Qualified lawyer with a focus on employment law and many years of relevant professional experience, ideally within a company's HR department, or an equivalent qualification and experience in leading cross-functional (partial) projects.
• Excellent knowledge of employment, social and tax law and a good understanding of HR processes.
• Confident user of MS Office products and ideally experienced with SAP-HR.
• Fluent German (at least C1 level) and good English skills (B2 level).
• You convince by your personality, are strong in communication, confident in negotiations and have pronounced assertiveness.
• You work independently, analytically and in a structured way, are a team player and bring a high degree of customer orientation.

Benefits

• Flexible working: We operate a balanced hybrid mix of remote work and presence in modern office environments (Activity Based Working).
• Work–life balance: With our individual working-time models such as part-time, the option to choose full-time between 30–40 hours and our lifetime working account (sabbatical and/or leave before retirement), you can find the right balance.
• Reconciling private life and career: We offer a family budget and support in special family situations, such as caring for relatives.
• Individual benefits: You can choose between bike leasing, IT hardware leasing, employee savings contributions (vermögenswirksame Leistungen) and/or an additional day off, as well as a company pension scheme and further options.
• Onboarding: We welcome you at our #enter welcome event; additionally, you will receive a structured induction with a mentor and regular feedback meetings with your People Lead.
• Health management – Health, Family and Life: Our offerings support you, among other things, through cooperations with the Familiengenossenschaft and voiio. Enjoy varied meals in our staff canteens and connect through our sports offerings.
• Career model and further training: In our development dialogues you discuss your professional, methodological and personal career goals and pursue them through our diverse continuing education offerings.
• Our corporate values: Respectful, open and honest, self-responsible, supportive and result-oriented — guided by team spirit, a drive for innovation and intensive knowledge sharing.
• Future and job security: As a cooperative company with decades of experience, we are pioneers of digital transformation in banking and a systemically relevant employer.
• Kununu: We are a Top Company 2026 and proud of a Kununu score of 4.2 and a recommendation rate of ≥ 90%.