Employment Solicitor (Head of Department)

Overview

In this role you lead the Birmingham employment practice within a national law firm, steering a respected team to advise a diverse client base on contentious and non-contentious issues. You will shape client relationships, drive growth, and contribute to the firm’s national employment strategy. The position blends leadership with high-level employment expertise across mergers, restructurings, and tribunal matters. This is a strategic, impact-driven opportunity to influence the firm’s future direction.

Pay / Benefits

• excellent benefits package
• flexible working arrangements
• competitive salary (highly competitive)

Responsibilities

• Lead the Birmingham employment team and advise employers on a broad range of matters
• Oversee both contentious and non-contentious employment work
• Provide commercially focused guidance on HR issues, dismissals, restructuring, discrimination, whistleblowing, and TUPE
• Support employment aspects of mergers, acquisitions and business restructures
• Develop client relationships and drive business development initiatives
• Mentor and develop the team and contribute to the national employment strategy
• Manage a busy caseload alongside leadership duties

Key requirements

• Experienced Employment Solicitor with a proven track record advising employer clients on complex matters
• Experience in senior roles or readiness to step into leadership (Partners, Legal Directors, Senior Associates)
• Strong technical ability and commercial awareness
• Experience supervising and developing lawyers and driving business development

• strong commercial awareness
• client relationship building
• leadership and mentoring
• employment law (contentious and non-contentious)
• TUPE
• discrimination and whistleblowing

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