Employee Relations Director

Pay 75-85/h depending on experience
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This company is the world leader in delivering therapeutics that provide meaningful advances to patients who live with serious and life-threatening rare genetic diseases. The company targets diseases that lack effective therapies and affect relatively small numbers of patients, many of whom are children. These conditions are often inherited, difficult to diagnose, progressively debilitating and have few, if any, treatment options. This company will continue to focus on advancing therapies that are the first or best of their kind, and has experienced substantial growth organically since its inception, primarily over the last decade. While this steady growth in both cost structure and staff was essential to the company's emergence as a leading, fully integrated global biopharma with approximately $2 billion in revenues from over 75 countries, a robust R&D pipeline, operating profits, and world-class technical capabilities through its 3,000 employees; leadership desires to optimize the efficiency of its operations for the future through its next phase of growth.

The Role
Reporting to the Vice President, People, Technical Operations & Corporate Groups, the Employee Relations Director is responsible for execution of the Employee Relations Strategy across the company, including Technical Operations, Research & Development, Commercial and Corporate Functions.
The role is responsible for providing strategic and operational guidance on enterprise-wide employee relations activities, policies, processes, and procedures pertaining to the US locations. This role will command employee relations expertise, excellent judgment, and highly developed analytical, interpersonal, problem-solving and communication skills. This position will support business leaders to handle workplace concerns and co create action plans and provide intervention as necessary. This role will work extensively with Business leaders to identify opportunities to address repeating employee relations issues proactively and preventatively and will provide guidance and coaching to managers of all levels to address behavioural and performance areas. The Employee Relations director will stay attuned to organizational and operational changes across company locations in the US to identify potential employee relations risks and develop plans to address proactively.

Responsibilities
Working with the People Partners across the People function, this position is responsible for ensuring that employee relations issues are addressed in a robust, consistent, appropriate, and legal expectations and guidelines are fulfilled for both the employee and the company. This role will work closely with our partners in Legal and in Compliance.

Responsibilities include for the role include (but are not limited to):

? Overseeing the management of the employee relations processes and procedures to enable effective conflict resolution, and problem solving.
? Conducting, overseeing, and assisting employee relation issues to manage employee concerns and grievances and to identify and implement appropriate action and accountability practices.
? Identifying a fair and inclusive process appropriate for employee concerns or grievances including the leading of fact-finding, appropriate due diligence, and investigations to ensure the adherence to the company's employee relations policies and practices.
? Staying attuned to organizational and operational changes across the company to identify potential employee relations risks and develop plans to address proactively.
? Providing guidance and coaching to managers of all levels to address employee behavior and performance.
? Providing guidance and assisting with the development and delivery of appropriate performance feedback or action plans including corrective/disciplinary actions.
? Overseeing the use of effective documentation techniques and maintaining accurate, confidential records regarding all reported matters and fact-finding documentation.
? Interpreting and applying understanding of Employee policies and practices, employment law, and other regulations to provide guidance or clarification on ER matters.
? Maintaining the highest level of integrity when managing employee relations issues and managing reported matters.
? Experience of alternative dispute resolution, specifically workplace mediation.
? Working collaboratively and proactively with other teams, within Legal, Compliance and Payroll to develop an approach that provides the best support to the business.
? Providing guidance aligned to supporting leaders to competently deal with investigations, disciplinaries, grievances, performance management issues / sickness, sensitively in line with policy principles.
? Providing insight to ensure the continued development of relevant employment related people policies and procedures.
? Supporting training initiatives and the continual development management toolkits for leaders.
? Proactively working with leaders to enable them to competently manage people issues promptly using best practice approaches & people policies principles
? Maintaining up to date knowledge on employment case law and associated legislative changes and effectively utilise this knowledge
? Ensuring ER cases are recorded, tracked, and proactively managed to conclusion or hand off to the relevant Strategic Business Partner.

Requirements

? 10 years of experience working in the Employee Relations field.
? Strong analytical, interpersonal, problem-solving and communication skills.
? Ability to work in a dynamic and agile environment.
? Strong strategic, negotiations and diplomacy skills.
? Strong understanding of state and federal US laws concerning labour relations.
? Ability to comprehend, interpret, and apply the appropriate sections of applicable laws, guidelines, regulations, and policies.
? Exceptional interpersonal skills.
? Strong understanding of dispute resolution and compensation administration.
? Ability to remain tactful, calm, and persuasive in controversial and/or confrontational situations.
? Excellent writing and language skills.