Employee Relations Associate Counsel(Job Number: EMP000001)
JOIN US AS AN EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ASSOCIATE COUNSEL
About This Opportunity
Help Target foster a culture where team members feel valued and rewarded. Recruit top talent, effectively onboard and encourage career development, and support team members and candidates for Target Stores, Distribution Centers and Headquarters.
Delivers legal services in substantive areas specific to Employee Relations. Works under general guidance to ensure that the ER legal services provided represent the organization's brand and philosophy in a cost-effective, strategic and responsible manner. Builds great team and client relationships.
Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As an Employee Relations Counsel, you'll take the lead as you?
- Provide expert legal counsel in Employee Relations matters for assigned areas of responsibility. Work with the Employee Relations teams to identify legal and HR-related issues. Follows and recommends improvements to related work processes and works with available resources to ensure that issues in assigned areas are being addressed.
- Serve clients in pyramid-specific or project-specific work to ensure strategies and actions in ER matters support the company's brand, mission and philosophy. Understands HR and business objectives and strategies.
- Strategically manage employment litigation and agency matters along with key partners.
- Work independently with outside counsel as identified with more senior counsel. Follows standards for legal work in assigned areas and ensures that work is performed in a cost-effective manner.
- Remain current on legal and business developments and shares appropriately with ER/LR team and business partners.
- Assist in representing Target's interests to government agencies and other outside entities.
Requirements
- J.D. or equivalent from accredited law school and admitted to a state bar.
- 2+ years serving clients in Employee Relations matters
- Experience providing consultation and legal advice in a corporate or law firm setting,
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Strong ability to establish effective, trusted team and client relationships
- Strong litigation experience with significant employment law background
Benefits
Eligible team members will receive one of the best earnings packages anywhere, including competitive pay, all-around insurance coverage, 401(k), flexible scheduling, training and development and many other perks and benefits. Target is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and is a drug-free workplace.
About Target®
Expect the Best. At Target, we have a vision: to become the best - the best culture and brand, the best place for growth and the company with the best reputation. We offer an inclusive, collaborative and energetic work environment that rewards those who perform. We deliver engaging, innovative and on-trend experiences for our team members and our guests. We invest in our team members' futures by developing leaders and providing a breadth of opportunities for professional development. It takes the best to become the best, and we are committed to building a team that does the right thing for our guests, shareholders, team members and communities.
Minneapolis-based Target Corporation serves guests at stores nationwide and at Target.com. Target is committed to providing a fun and convenient shopping experience with access to unique and highly differentiated products at affordable prices. Since 1946, the corporation has given 5 percent of its income through community grants and programs like Take Charge of Education®.
Primary Location: United States-Minnesota-Minneapolis
JOIN US AS AN EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ASSOCIATE COUNSEL
About This Opportunity
Help Target foster a culture where team members feel valued and rewarded. Recruit top talent, effectively onboard and encourage career development, and support team members and candidates for Target Stores, Distribution Centers and Headquarters.
Delivers legal services in substantive areas specific to Employee Relations. Works under general guidance to ensure that the ER legal services provided represent the organization's brand and philosophy in a cost-effective, strategic and responsible manner. Builds great team and client relationships.
Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As an Employee Relations Counsel, you'll take the lead as you?
- Provide expert legal counsel in Employee Relations matters for assigned areas of responsibility. Work with the Employee Relations teams to identify legal and HR-related issues. Follows and recommends improvements to related work processes and works with available resources to ensure that issues in assigned areas are being addressed.
- Serve clients in pyramid-specific or project-specific work to ensure strategies and actions in ER matters support the company's brand, mission and philosophy. Understands HR and business objectives and strategies.
- Strategically manage employment litigation and agency matters along with key partners.
- Work independently with outside counsel as identified with more senior counsel. Follows standards for legal work in assigned areas and ensures that work is performed in a cost-effective manner.
- Remain current on legal and business developments and shares appropriately with ER/LR team and business partners.
- Assist in representing Target's interests to government agencies and other outside entities.
Requirements
- J.D. or equivalent from accredited law school and admitted to a state bar.
- 2+ years serving clients in Employee Relations matters
- Experience providing consultation and legal advice in a corporate or law firm setting,
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Strong ability to establish effective, trusted team and client relationships
- Strong litigation experience with significant employment law background
Benefits
Eligible team members will receive one of the best earnings packages anywhere, including competitive pay, all-around insurance coverage, 401(k), flexible scheduling, training and development and many other perks and benefits. Target is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and is a drug-free workplace.
About Target®
Expect the Best. At Target, we have a vision: to become the best - the best culture and brand, the best place for growth and the company with the best reputation. We offer an inclusive, collaborative and energetic work environment that rewards those who perform. We deliver engaging, innovative and on-trend experiences for our team members and our guests. We invest in our team members' futures by developing leaders and providing a breadth of opportunities for professional development. It takes the best to become the best, and we are committed to building a team that does the right thing for our guests, shareholders, team members and communities.
Minneapolis-based Target Corporation serves guests at stores nationwide and at Target.com. Target is committed to providing a fun and convenient shopping experience with access to unique and highly differentiated products at affordable prices. Since 1946, the corporation has given 5 percent of its income through community grants and programs like Take Charge of Education®.
Primary Location: United States-Minnesota-Minneapolis
