HR Business Partner – Manager/Sr Manager
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Arbitration Manager, Labor Relations
Ford Motor Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Dearborn • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Provide oversight of lifecycle of grievance disputes to settlement or arbitration hearing and decision
- Efficiently and effectively manage document production, witness interviews, and internal evidence collection
- Develop arbitration strategies, drafting pre-arbitration hearing submissions and preparing witnesses
- Lead or support settlement negotiations with UAW partners to resolved disputes pre-arbitration
- Manage logistics of arbitration hearings, including liaising with arbitration panels
- Provide deep contract interpretation and subject matter expertise related to all provisions of the Collective Bargaining Agreement and related Letters of Understanding
- Resolve related Collective Bargaining Agreement issues or concerns that may impact employees or union relations
- Ensure compliance with all statutory and federal laws impacting the US hourly workforce
- Communicate with colleagues across all locations/departments regarding grievance, arbitration or contract interpretation administration
- Write and review local and national contract provisions, when necessary (during Bargaining periods, including administrative or language clarification letters throughout)
- Develop and enhance centralized repository of arbitration outcomes, best practices or learned strategies to inform future strategies and preventive measures
- Identify and incorporate trends from arbitration cases to inform recommended policy adjustments and develop internal training programs to mitigate future disputes
Requirements
- Juris Doctor degree required
- Minimum 3 years of work experience while pursuing a Juris Doctor degree or in the Human Resources, Employee/Labor Relations area of expertise.
- Ability to analyze data and use technology to identify and diagnose business needs
- Ability to lead others to deliver cross-functional objectives and assignments
- Working knowledge of all Microsoft Office applications
- Strong analytical, critical thinking, problem solving, and organization skills
- Strong interpersonal, negotiation and persuasion skills
- Presence to successfully influence/interface with colleagues, and UAW working partners
- Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
- Conflict management skills
- Team oriented, strong drive for results
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare and more
- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
- Tuition assistance
- Established and active employee resource groups
- Paid time off for individual and team community service
- A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
contract interpretationarbitration strategiesgrievance managementdocument productionevidence collectiondata analysispolicy adjustmentstraining program developmentnegotiationsettlement strategies
Soft skills
analytical skillscritical thinkingproblem solvingorganization skillsinterpersonal skillsnegotiation skillspersuasion skillscommunication skillsconflict managementteam orientation
Certifications
Juris Doctor
