Senior Specialist, Employee Relations

Senior Specialist, Employee Relations - EMEA

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams.

About Remote : Our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents and all of our positions are fully remote.

What This Job Can Offer You : As a critical extension of our clients’ HR teams, we navigate and advise on the intricate paths of global employment with unmatched speed, expertise, and precision. The vision of the Lifecycle team at Remote is not just about maintaining the gold standard in HR practices; it’s about elevating it, integrating cutting-edge technology solutions, and enriching customer experiences in over 80+ countries.

Senior Lifecycle Specialist, Employee Relations & Transitions independently manages all employee exits for Remote's external employees with a focus on legal compliance, excellent quality and providing delightful customer service. Additionally, the specialist provides first-level Employee Relations support, guiding clients through workplace concerns and coordinating appropriate resources.

• Manage and resolve complex end-to-end employee exits with minimal supervision across multiple international jurisdictions, prioritizing a superior offboarding experience for Remote's clients and employees.
• Provide sound and trusted guidance with an elevated level of knowledge on key jurisdictions, and manage clients' requests on various HR matters.
• Independently lead and facilitate meetings with clients and external employees, including workforce reduction consultation meetings, administrative hearings, negotiations in separations and settlements.
• Liaise with and coordinate various internal and external stakeholders to ensure compliance in offboarding activities and audits.
• Draft, tailor and administer all termination and supplementary documents with accuracy and attention to detail.
• Process offboarding on Remote's internal HRIS platform, collaborating with various internal stakeholders.

What You Bring : Extensive experience as an HR Advisor or HR Business Partner, with generalist HR competencies and exposure across the employee lifecycle. Proven experience with a strong background in independently managing voluntary and involuntary exits (terminations) with care, sensitivity and legal compliance.

• Extensive experience as an HR Advisor or HR Business Partner.
• Tertiary qualifications in HR/labour relations/employment law considered a plus.
• Proven experience with a strong background in independently managing voluntary and involuntary exits.
• Understanding of employee relations principles, progressive discipline approaches, and workplace investigation fundamentals.
• Superior communication, influencing, conflict management, and negotiation skills.

Practicals : You'll report to: Manager Employee Lifecycle, Employee Relations & Transitions. Team: Lifecycle, Employee Relations & Transitions. Location: EMEA.

• You'll report to: Manager Employee Lifecycle, Employee Relations & Transitions.
• Team: Lifecycle, Employee Relations & Transitions.
• Location: EMEA.
• Start date: As soon as possible.

Benefits : Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:

• Work from anywhere.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Flexible working hours.
• 16 weeks paid parental leave.
• Mental health support services.
• Stock options.
• Learning budget.
• Home office budget & IT equipment.

How You’ll Plan Your Day (and Life) : We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life. Read more at remote.com/async.

At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. The annual salary range for this full-time position is $41,900—$94,300 USD.