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What will you be doing?
The Labour & Employment Paralegal (Juriste Droit Social Européen) supports Circana’s Global Labor & Employment Legal function (“L&E”), with a primary focus on the EMEA region, while also maintaining flexibility to support other regions as needed.
This role plays a critical part in coordinating cross‑border labour matters, supporting works council processes, facilitating external counsel interactions, monitoring regulatory developments, and ensuring that employment- and labour‑related compliance documentation and processes are maintained. This role requires excellent judgement, structure, and the ability to work collaboratively in a fast‑paced, matrixed global environment.
This role will report to the Head of L&E Legal team and will partner closely with HR Business Partners, the HR Employee Delivery Organization, and with other leaders, corporate business functions, and stakeholders.
Job Responsibilities
External Counsel & Matter Coordination
- Serve as a centralized point of contact for external counsel.
- Manage intake of legal requests, compile background documentation, and oversee matter tracking.
- Support budget oversight, invoice coordination, and efficiency in multi‑country legal workflows.
- Ensure consistent briefing and structured information flow across jurisdictions.
Works Councils & Employee Representative Bodies
- Maintain structured oversight of works council processes, including consultation timelines, obligations, notices, and documentation.
- Support works council matters by tracking requirements, preparing materials, and maintaining local calendars.
- Coordinate translations, local reviews, and cross-functional alignment with HR, Talent Acquisition, and business leaders.
- Support collective consultation steps for restructurings, organisational changes, or other workforce impacts.
Regulatory Monitoring & Legal-Side Compliance Support
- Track updates in labour law, EU directives (e.g., Pay Transparency, Whistleblower, Minimum Wage), and national transpositions across EMEA.
- Maintain a structured labour law monitoring process and prepare concise, practical summaries for internal stakeholders.
- Support L&E Legal in implementing compliance changes, developing country‑level guidance, and preparing for audits.
- Assist with policy updates, including drafting country-specific legal guidance and implementation notes.
Drafting & Legal Documentation
- Draft and revise employment-related documents, including letters, templates, notices, agreements, and legal guidance.
- Assist with preparing legal training materials, decks, and summaries for HR and business leaders.
- Prepare initial drafts of agreements, consultation notices, and research memoranda under attorney supervision.
Project & Process Management
- Support cross‑border L&E and HR projects, including restructurings, policy rollouts, compliance frameworks, and EU‑level initiatives.
- Maintain trackers, timelines, and documentation repositories to support consistent execution across regions.
- Work collaboratively across Legal, HR, Compliance, and business functions to ensure aligned project delivery.
Knowledge Management
- Maintain and update internal templates, FAQs, and legal reference materials.
- Build and standardise documentation processes to ensure accuracy, visibility, and consistency.
- Facilitate sharing of best practices across regions.
Requirements
- Minimum 4 years of labour & employment legal support experience in EMEA, with at least 1-2 years supporting attorneys/legal counsel in‑house or within a corporate legal environment (in-house preferred).
- Experience navigating multi-jurisdictional labour environments.
- Strong experience with works council processes and documentation.
- Demonstrated experience partnering with European Works Councils and managing transnational consultation processes in multinational environments.
- Demonstrated ability to manage external counsel and multi‑country legal workflows.
- Ability to track and synthesise regulatory developments into actionable insights.
- General familiarity with EU directives, cross-border compliance, and multi-jurisdictional labour frameworks.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including drafting and summarising complex topics.
- Superior organisational skills and attention to detail.
- Fluency in English required; French strongly preferred. Additional EMEA languages a plus.
- Familiarity with legal operations tools, matter management systems, e-billing platforms, and structured documentation processes (or strong aptitude to learn).
- Passion for compliance, integrity, confidentiality, and high‑quality legal operations.
- Experience working in global or matrixed organizations preferred, especially in environments requiring cross‑border coordination.
Circana Behaviors
As well as the technical skills, experience and attributes that are required for the role, our shared behaviors sit at the core of our organization. Therefore, we always look for people who can continuously champion these behaviors throughout the business within their day-to-day role:
- Stay Curious: Being hungry to learn and grow, always asking the big questions
- Seek Clarity: Embracing complexity to create clarity and inspire action
- Own the Outcome: Being accountable for decisions and taking ownership of our choices
- Center on the Client: Relentlessly adding value for our customers
- Be a Challenger: Never complacent, always striving for continuous improvement
- Champion Inclusivity: Fostering trust in relationships engaging with empathy, respect and integrity
- Commit to each other: Contributing to making Circana a great place to work for everyone
Location
This position can be located in the following area(s): Courbevoie la Défense OR Remote France
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Circana Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Circana and has not been reviewed or approved by Circana.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO for many exempt roles and paid holidays are frequently highlighted. Feedback suggests these time‑off policies are a notable strength of the package.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is available in the U.S. and is described as competitive and well‑received. Company communications emphasize equal/neutral parental leave, reinforcing family support.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — A broad slate of extras—such as adoption assistance, tuition/educational assistance, volunteer time off, and EAP—adds to the overall package. Feedback suggests these lifestyle‑oriented offerings complement core medical, dental, and vision coverage.
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