WillHire

Senior Employee Relations and Investigations Partner

WillHire

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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Salary

💰 $131,600 - $197,600 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Cloud

About the role

  • Support Workday's organizational and business objectives by resolving complex employee relations matters across all levels of the organization.
  • Drive implementation of Employee Relations strategies, guidelines, and procedures, including effective communication and guidance for managers and employees.
  • Ensure consistent application across the organization and within the HR Partner teams.
  • Conduct and lead complex, high-risk and/or sensitive confidential investigations related to employee issues and claims, preparing investigative summaries, and making recommendations on next steps and appropriate actions.
  • Advise and influence business leaders and the HR Partner teams through resolving employee relations matters and mitigating risk to the company.
  • Identify, analyze, and implement sound resolutions to complex employee relations issues.
  • Initiate a proactive, strategic approach to employee relations by identifying and analyzing ER data/metrics for themes, trends, and root cause identification.
  • Share findings with key partners to develop and deliver an integrated plan that links to organization and people strategies.
  • Establish, build, and maintain strong relationships with business groups, including employees, managers, HR, and Legal.
  • Anticipate unintended consequences and broader impact of decisions and recommendations, identifying alternate courses of action, and facilitating gaining alignment with key stakeholders.
  • Proactively identify and anticipate future legal changes and partner with in-house Employment Counsel to provide options and recommendations.
  • Work collaboratively with key stakeholders to assess the impact of policies and practices and making recommendations to address areas of inconsistency or practice improvement.
  • Ensure compliance with all state and federal employment regulations and provide a regular assessment of how the company is doing relative to current regulations and articulating risk in all areas.

Requirements

  • Excellent demonstrable knowledge of current employment law and best practices in Employee Relations policies, principles, and procedures.
  • Able to advise a range of stakeholders on Employee Relations issues balancing legal compliance with business need.
  • Strong analytical skills, with an ability to analyze information to identify the root causes of problems and propose realistic and practical solutions to address them based on knowledge and understanding of the organization and its operating environment.
  • Capable of applying discretion and sound judgment while managing complex processes, decisions, and handling sensitive information.
  • Exceptional coaching, facilitation, and conflict resolution skills.
  • Extensive expertise in managing complex employee relations issues, including workplace investigations.
  • Strong influencing skills leveraging business acumen, expertise, and data.
  • Ability to accomplish results and desired outcomes through formal and informal structures.
  • Ability to finalize complex investigations quickly to minimize disruption within the organization.
  • Advise and influence all levels of management around complex employee relation decisions, e.g. performance management, business conduct, terminations, restructuring, and policies, guidelines, and practices.
  • In partnership with our Leadership and Organization Effective team, design leadership modules on management practices based on Employee Relations trends and themes.
  • 7-10 years of HR experience
  • 5+ years directly managing complex employee relations issues and conducting investigations end-to-end
  • Global experience preferred
  • MBA/MA or JD preferred