Senior Specialist, Employee Relations - EMEA

About the Role

Join Remote as a Senior Specialist to ensure compliant and high-quality management of global employment transitions, specifically focusing on employee exits and first-level employee relations support across EMEA.

Responsibilities

• Independently manage complex, end-to-end employee exits (offboarding) across multiple international jurisdictions, ensuring legal compliance and a superior client/employee experience.
• Provide expert guidance on HR matters, including termination, resignation, transfer procedures, employment contracts, and redundancy processes.
• Lead and facilitate critical meetings with clients and employees, such as workforce reduction consultations, negotiations in separations, and delivering termination outcomes.
• Draft, tailor, and administer all termination and supplementary documents accurately, maintaining strict adherence to privacy regulations.
• Conduct thorough preliminary assessments of workplace concerns, identifying key facts and applicable local regulations to guide clients through complex scenarios.
• Serve as the first point of informal escalation, mentoring junior team members and acting as a subject-matter expert on offboarding and first-level employee relations.
• Proactively identify opportunities and drive process improvements, automation, and product development within the offboarding and employee relations workflows.

Requirements

• Extensive experience as an HR Advisor or HR Business Partner with generalist HR competencies across the employee lifecycle.
• Proven background in independently managing voluntary and involuntary exits (terminations) with sensitivity and legal compliance across various jurisdictions.
• Strong understanding of employee relations principles, progressive discipline approaches, and workplace investigation fundamentals.
• Superior communication, influencing, conflict management, and negotiation skills, with the ability to navigate and direct multiple stakeholders with competing interests.
• Ability to interpret and apply industrial instruments, analyze complex HR issues, and translate research into practical solutions and usable team resources.

Nice-to-Haves

• Tertiary qualifications in HR, labour relations, or employment law.
• Experience operating in a fast-paced, fully remote, global organization.