Labour Law Specialist for Site Hørsholm & Lyngby

Interested in a career that matters?

Bring your legal skills and your passion for employment law to a role where you will help define best practices across Novonesis. This position offers the chance to work on a broad range of cases, support organizational harmonization, and contribute to a collaborative, professional environment. You will become part of a team with experienced colleagues who can provide sparring.

We are a team of 10 specialists, including 3 legal specialists and a law student. Our team is essential in advising and shaping labour law best practices throughout Novonesis. You will work closely with hiring managers, site managers, and union representatives, collaborating with a range of stakeholders to ensure legal compliance and consistent approaches across the organization, in line with our hybrid working model and office-first approach.

You will join a team of colleagues who care about each other and respect each other's expertise. We help each other find the best solution, whether the case is straightforward or complex. We discuss openly, ask for help early and learn from each other along the way. The tone is open, trusting and easygoing.

The Role & Your Impact
You will be involved in harmonizing employment law and employee relations across the organization, supporting both legacy companies as we move towards unified standards. Your work will include collaborating with colleagues from P&O and other internal partners and ensuring that knowledge is shared effectively. You will be part of a multi-disciplinary specialist team, working alongside three legal professionals. You will take ownership of your own cases and workstreams, while collaborating closely with experienced colleagues on more complex matters.

Your key tasks will include:

• Advising leaders on employment law and employee relations matters
• Handling and assessing employee cases and supporting more complex cases and negotiations
• Providing well-founded legal assessments and pragmatic, business-oriented recommendations
• Supporting and actively contributing to post-merger integration and harmonization projects, ensuring legally sound and practical outcomes during transitions
• Identifying and driving improvements to employment law and employee relations practices, processes and standards through training, guidance and hands-on support.

What You’ll Need to Be Successful

• A legal degree (Cand.Jur)
• 3-5 years of relevant experience within employment law
• Experience with Industry Collective Agreements (Industriens Overenskomster) is an advantage
• Experience from an employer organization or a larger corporate environment is an advantage

Due to the nature of the tasks, you must be able to work, speak and write in both Danish and English.

Additionally, we expect you to demonstrate strong problem-solving abilities, negotiation skills, a pragmatic and curious approach to legal issues, good business understanding, and the ability to share knowledge and support capability building across the organization.

You should feel comfortable listening to and understanding different perspectives, working in a collaborative way, and taking initiative in driving tasks forward in a structured way. Your approach should be easygoing and solution-focused, always aiming for the best outcomes for the organization.

What We Offer
You can expect ongoing professional development and strong legal sparring within the team.

Ways of Working
You will work closely with hiring managers, site managers, and union representatives, collaborating with a range of stakeholders to ensure legal compliance and consistent approaches across the organization, in line with our hybrid working model and office-first approach.

Deadline: November 22nd, 2026. We will screen and invite continuously, so please send your CV as soon as possible.

Contact: Head of Employee Relations & Projects Jannie Merete Pedersen at jmep@novonesis.com.

Our purpose guides the way

In Novonesis, we know that solutions rooted in biology can help solve humanity’s biggest challenges. Since we began more than a century ago, this has been our guide. It’s how we've gotten so far. And it’s how we'll impact the future. Now, more than ever, the world needs change. And with biosolutions, the possibilities for transformation are endless. If our purpose resonates with you, we encourage you to apply.

Opportunities for everyone

We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and equal opportunity for all applicants. Therefore we ask you to apply without a cover letter or photo and instead include a few sentences in your CV explaining your motivation for applying.

We make all employment decisions based on business needs and welcome candidates with a wide range of backgrounds, including ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.

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Our History

In 2024, Chr. Hansen and Novozymes joined forces to form Novonesis.

We are 10,000 people worldwide whose expertise spans more than 30 different industries. All around the world our biosolutions already create value for thousands of customers and benefit the planet. Our biosolutions enable feeding and fueling the world more sustainably, from healthy and sustainable nutrition to biofuel. Our biosolutions also reduce the use of fossil-based resources, chemicals, energy and water. And this is just the beginning.