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About the Role
Serve as the senior-most Employment Legal leader for BCG’s Asia Pacific (AP) Region, providing strategic leadership and managing complex employment matters, including those involving senior leadership. Play a leading role in strategic and cross-regional employment initiatives, advising senior Legal, People, and business leaders. Navigate an evolving employment landscape shaped by AI, balancing innovation with legal compliance and firm values.
Responsibilities
- Lead Employment Legal across AP, providing strategic oversight and driving complex, sensitive, and consequential issues.
- Lead and develop BCG's Employment Legal team across AP, providing strategic direction and fostering a cohesive regional approach.
- Partner with senior AP and global business and HR leaders to shape people-related decisions, offering practical legal judgment and strategic counsel.
- Serve as a key Employment Legal partner to AP regional and system leadership, ensuring early engagement on significant people, organizational, and workforce issues.
- Advise on emerging workforce issues and technologies, including AI-enabled employment practices, ensuring AP legal and regulatory considerations are reflected.
- Drive the development and evolution of employment policies and practices across AP to align with changing requirements and advances in technology.
- Lead Employment Legal's involvement in significant strategic business and People initiatives affecting AP, including reorganizations and workforce transformations.
- Lead the resolution of complex cross-border employment issues affecting AP, developing coordinated global and regional approaches.
- Enhance employment legal service delivery by identifying opportunities to leverage legal technology and AI-enabled tools responsibly.
Requirements
- Significant experience in employment law (typically 12–15+ years), with a combination of in-house and leading law firm experience preferred.
- Deep employment-law expertise in one or more major AP jurisdictions, with significant experience navigating complex employment matters across multiple AP markets.
- Experience with Japan, Korea, China, and broader North East Asia employment matters is particularly valuable.
- Exceptional legal judgment and demonstrated ability to lead complex, sensitive, and high-profile employment matters.
- Strong understanding of how AI and emerging workplace technologies are reshaping employment law and regulatory expectations.
- Proven ability to influence senior executives and build trusted relationships across a global organization.
- Experience leading and developing high-performing legal teams within complex, global organizations.
- Proven ability to operate effectively across jurisdictions and cultures, developing coordinated, practical solutions.
- Ability to translate complex legal and regulatory issues into clear, practical advice.
Location
- London
- Gurgaon
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior Director
- 12-15+ years
About the Company
- Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities.
- BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963.
- Today, BCG helps clients with total transformation—inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.
- Organizations must blend digital and human capabilities to succeed.
- BCG's diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change.
- BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose.
- BCG works in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow clients to thrive.
- At BCG, people and relationships are at the heart of everything.
- BCG believes in-person collaboration plays an important role in culture, mentorship, and professional development.
- BCG aims to provide a dynamic and collaborative environment that fosters connection and teamwork.
Equal Opportunity
- Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
- BCG is an E - Verify Employer.