Description
Pinsent Masons is seeking an experienced and commercially minded (Managing) Senior Associate to join our Employment & Incentives team in Amsterdam.
This role offers the opportunity to operate as a senior member of the Employment & Incentives team, taking a leading role in client delivery, people development, and practice growth.
As a (Managing) Senior Associate within our Employment & Incentives team, you will:
- Lead complex domestic and cross-border employment law matters for multinational clients.
- Advise on restructurings, redundancies, and workforce transformation programmes.
- Lead the employment aspects of domestic and international M&A transactions.
- Manage complex employment litigation, executive disputes, and contentious workplace matters.
- Support clients on employee participation, equality, diversity, and inclusion matters.
- Advise on global mobility, international workforce, and cross-border employment issues.
- Guide organisations through complex outsourcing, insourcing, and employee transfer projects.
- Advise on employee privacy, HR data protection, and workplace technology issues.
- Coordinate multi-jurisdictional projects involving lawyers across the firm's international network.
- Build long-term client relationships and act as a trusted strategic adviser to senior stakeholders, HR leaders, and in-house legal teams.
- Develop opportunities for new and existing client relationships through networking, cross-selling, and market engagement.
- Contribute to thought leadership, client training, publications, webinars, and conference speaking opportunities.
- Play an active role in pitches, proposals, and broader business development initiatives.
- Support the recruitment, retention, and development of junior talent within the team.
- Supervise, mentor, and coach Associates, helping them develop both technically and professionally.
- Take responsibility for matter management, financial performance, and efficient delivery of client work.
- Work closely with Partners to support the continued growth and success of the Amsterdam Employment & Incentives practice.
The successful candidate will be expected to build and deepen client relationships, lead significant matters, and contribute to the continued growth of the Amsterdam Employment & Incentives practice.
You will be joining a collaborative, entrepreneurial, and highly connected international team where your expertise, ideas, and contributions will have a visible impact on both clients and colleagues.
The Amsterdam office is at an exciting stage in its growth journey, established only a few years ago, it has grown into a thriving office of approximately 40 professionals and 8 partners, with ambitious plans for further expansion of its Employment & Incentives practice.
The Employment & Incentives team advises leading multinational organisations across Pinsent Masons' key sectors, including Technology, Science & Industry, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Financial Services, Infrastructure & Real Estate, Energy & Natural Resources, and Retail, Sport & Hospitality.
The Amsterdam team has a strong international outlook and focus on cross-border work. Clients regularly rely on the team to coordinate employment law projects across multiple jurisdictions, particularly where business transformation, acquisitions, restructurings, and global workforce considerations are involved.
The team works in a highly integrated fashion with our Corporate, TMT, and Litigation specialists. Senior lawyers are encouraged not only to develop market-leading technical expertise but also to build their own profile, client base, and specialism within the wider practice.
At Pinsent Masons, we look for people who are curious, collaborative, ambitious, and commercially minded.
You'll be a Netherlands-qualified lawyer with 7+ years' experience in employment law, ideally gained within a well-regarded law firm and with experience advising international clients.
You will also bring:
- Strong technical employment law expertise and the ability to provide pragmatic, commercially focused advice.
- Significant experience advising on employment-related transactions, restructurings, workforce transformation programmes, and workplace disputes.
- Confidence leading complex matters and managing sophisticated stakeholder groups.
- Experience developing and maintaining strong client relationships.
- A proven interest in business development and market-facing activities.
- Excellent analytical, organisational, and project management skills.
- Demonstrable experience supervising, mentoring, and developing junior lawyers.
- Strong commercial awareness and an understanding of clients' business objectives.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills in both Dutch and English.
- The ability to manage multiple priorities and thrive in a fast-paced international environment.
- A collaborative leadership style and enthusiasm for working across jurisdictions and disciplines.
- A genuine interest in helping grow a market-leading employment practice.