Manager, Lifecycle Employee Relations

About Remote

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. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go) and all of our positions are fully remote. With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role. We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best‑in‑class HR platform. If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work

What You Bring

• Experience in Human Resources, Operations and/or Employee Relations roles with experience as a People Manager.
• Preferred qualifications include tertiary degrees in HR, labour relations, or employment law; a strong requirement for this role is advanced expertise encompassing various HR aspects, such as business partnering, employee relations, performance management, and a thorough understanding of local employment laws.
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge of global HR practices, employment laws, and regulations working across multiple countries, with significant exposure to complex involuntary employee exits and employee relations matters.
• Understanding of progressive discipline processes, workplace investigation principles, and effective coordination of employee relations resources.
• Proven success in leadership awareness, team engagement, and goal delivery through effective communication, influencing, and relationship‑building skills across a culturally diverse and distributed team.
• Excellent interpersonal skills that transcend potential cultural and language barriers, with strong emotional intelligence, and the ability to build trust and rapport, and influence senior leaders, members of management, clients and employees at all levels within the company.
• Excellent verbal, analytical and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex ideas in a clear and concise manner.
• Consistently exhibits high levels of discretion, integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality by adhering to Remote's core values: Care, Innovation, Intensity, Transparency and Excellence.
• An agile, resilient and customer‑centred approach to working in a dynamic, ever‑changing organizational environment, with a high tolerance for ambiguity and motivation.
• Cultural awareness and sensitivity: ability to flex style to suit differing cultural norms and experience of leading a culturally diverse team.
• Exposure to working in a start‑up environment is highly desirable; enjoys and understands the need to work largely asynchronously.
• Proven experience in anticipating, identifying, understanding and analysing complex business and culture issues, with the ability to manage these to complete resolution, and translate them into critical business strategies and initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a primary point of contact for clients, delivering client focused legal, human resources, and advisory support.
• Partner closely with Operations teams to ensure seamless collaboration and high quality outcomes for clients.
• Lead and manage a team of Employee Lifecycle Specialists, providing hands‑on coaching, mentorship, and performance guidance.
• Oversee voluntary and non‑voluntary terminations across multiple countries, including complex and sensitive cases.
• Guide and support the team in delivering first level employee relations support to clients.
• Personally manage and advise on complex employee lifecycle and employee relations cases to ensure best in class service.
• Champion a client‑centric approach and consistently raise the bar on quality, consistency, and professionalism.

Practicals

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

Application process

• Interview with recruiter.
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