HR Manager, Employee Relations

HR Employee Relations Manager

The HR Employee Relations Manager will conduct sophisticated investigations, provide advice and direction regarding employee and labor relations matters to HR key stakeholders, business executives, managers, and employees across the organization. This is an opportunity to help build and shape the ER function for a company that is growing - in size, complexity and world-wide impact. Our centralized ER function is a new and highly-respected team that is setting the course for how employee relations works with and influences the organization.

This role is based at our Sleepy Hollow, NY location with a minimum of four days onsite required - this is not open to fully remote or hybrid work.

As an Employee Relations Manager, a typical day may include :

• Act as the lead investigator on employee concerns including devising investigation strategies, reviewing data and documents, conducting interviews and writing and communicating investigation summaries.
• Provide coaching / supervision on investigations to less experienced members of ER team and HRBPs
• Interact and engage with leadership in relation to investigations, including HR business partners and business managers.
• Partner effectively with HR Business Partners, the legal team, Compliance, Quality Assurance, Security and others.
• Collaborate with compliance and legal teams and HR leadership to address Ethics Points claims
• Appropriately document, maintain, and handle sensitive and privileged and confidential information, including update and maintaining case and department data in relevant systems.
• Advise HR Business Partners and other HR colleagues on employee relation processes & policies, and provide consultation on areas of overlap and / or impact
• Act as a point of contact for ER.
• Effectively build relationships with employees, managers, partners and leaders resulting in positive feedback.
• Gather and analyze ER trends and data for HR leadership and SLT presentations.
• Identify areas for improvement by leveraging analytics and data trends and / or discerning systemic issues revealed during the investigative process and recommend strategies and actions to address
• Participate in projects led or impacting the ER team as needed

This role may be for you if you have :

To be considered for this role you must possess a Bachelor's degree in a scientific discipline or HR related discipline (advanced degree such as MBA, or Master's in Organization Development or Human Resources is preferred) with seven to nine years related work experience, including at least four years direct experience as an investigator for Employee Relation matters.