HR Legal and Compliance Specialist, Maternity Cover (1 year)

As our new HR Legal and Compliance Specialist, you will especially focus on ensuring the company adheres to all relevant employment laws and regulations, and follows internal policies and procedures. This role involves close collaboration with the People & Culture team and legal department to address compliance-related issues and support the company’s global operations with a focus on the EMEA region.

Your primary responsibilities are:

• Policy Management: Design, Review, update and maintain company policies to ensure compliance with the latest regulations.
• Compliance & legal advisory: Ensure compliance with employment laws, regulations, and labor agreements across multiple countries. 
• Internal audits: Conduct audits to assess the company’s compliance status and identify areas for improvement. Identify potential employee relations risks and proactively address them to minimize legal exposure. 
• External audits: Overseeing Local audits, occupational health, work environment compliance, office compliance in the EMEA locations
• Training and Guidance: Develop and implement compliance training programs for employees and provide guidance to P&C and management staff.
• Regulatory Updates: Stay informed about changes in laws and regulations affecting the company and advise management accordingly. Monitor changes in local labor laws and ensure policies and practices are updated accordingly 
• Reporting: Prepare and present reports on compliance operations and progress to senior management.
• Dispute Resolution: Manage complex employee relations issues, grievances, and workplace investigations. 
• Collaboration: Partner with P&C colleagues, Corporate legal, and business leaders to address labor-related challenges and ensure consistency and compliance in employment practices.
• Documentation & Contracts: Preparing and review termination agreements, disciplinary letters, PIP’s etc.
• Ad hoc project work: e.g. implementation of EU regulations like the transparency directive.

It is a global role, primarily stakeholders across EMEA region but also interacting with the rest of the offices outside EMEA.

This is a maternity cover for 1 year with start date as fast as possible.

What you bring: 
Extensive experience from a similar role is crucial, especially for handling legal and compliance across multiple countries.

Furthermore, we hope you see yourself in most of below:

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Law, or a related field.
• Proven experience in HR compliance, legal compliance, or a related role.
• Ability to conduct thorough investigations and audits.
• Experience working in a global company or with international compliance issues.
• Professional proficiency in English both in writing and verbally.

Please note that the position is on-site at our headquarters in Brøndby, Denmark, and requires that you have a valid Danish work visa.

Welcome to Milestone Systems
At Milestone you will experience a positive and welcoming environment with a global and diverse culture. We are more than 40 different nationalities in the Danish office alone and English is the corporate language.

We have our own gym with all the equipment you need, private health insurance and additional benefits like an amazing employee association setting up fun and exciting activities for all of us.

If you want to develop your professional competencies we offer individual development plans, where you and your manager agree on the right learning path for you. We believe in investing in our employees and providing them with opportunities for growth and development.

As our office is 5 minutes cycling from the nearest train station, we have bicycles that you can use.

We also have a flexible policy in terms of working from home.

Contact and application
You will experience an inclusive and unbiased recruitment process where all employment decisions are based on qualifications rather than race, color, ethnicity, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, and religion. We advise you not to attach a cover letter to your application but instead, we encourage you to write a few lines about why you are applying for the position in your resume/CV. Additionally we recommend you not to add a photo in your resume/CV.

If you have any questions, you are very welcome to contact VP, Global People Operations Excellence, Desislava Tabakova at +359 888 277 868.

We will take candidates into the recruitment process continuously and the position will remain open until a suitable candidate has been found.

We are looking forward to receiving your application.