Employee Relations Specialist, Employee Relations and Transitions - EMEA (HRBP) - remote job

Remote is hiring a Employee Relations Specialist, Employee Relations and Transitions - EMEA (HRBP). The role sits in Other jobs and is fully remote. The company hires candidates based in Europe.

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About Remote

Remote addresses the biggest challenge for modern organizations—navigating global employment compliance with ease. We enable businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. Our team, driven by core values and a future-focused work culture, works tirelessly on ambitious problems, collaborating asynchronously from around the world. Remoters can be found across six continents (Antarctica is the next destination!) and all positions are fully remote.

Innovation is one of our core values, so we integrate automation and AI capabilities into every role's requirements.

We welcome every member of the Remote team to bring their unique talents, experiences, and cultures to our mission of building a top-tier HR platform.

If you are energetic, curious, motivated, and ambitious, join us in shaping the future of work. Apply now!

What This Job Can Offer You

As a key support for our clients' HR teams, you will navigate and advise on the complex paths of global employment with unmatched speed, expertise, and precision. The Lifecycle team at Remote aims not just to maintain but to elevate the gold standard in HR practices, integrating cutting-edge technology solutions and enhancing customer experiences in over 80 countries. Your work will directly influence our ability to sustain and extend compliance coverage, continuously enhance customer journeys, and significantly increase operational capacity. You will be at the forefront of shaping the future of work, ensuring every interaction is fast, intuitive, and profoundly impactful. Dive into a role where your passion for innovation, commitment to excellence, and drive to make a global difference align with our mission to empower organizations worldwide to employ anyone, anywhere—compliantly.

The Lifecycle Specialist, Employee Relations & Transitions oversees the offboarding of Remote's external employees, focusing on legal compliance and providing exceptional customer service. Additionally, the specialist offers first-level Employee Relations support, guiding clients through workplace concerns and coordinating necessary resources.

As part of a larger employee Lifecycle team, the Specialist contributes to process improvements and initiatives that align with Remote's strategic goals and values.

Key Responsibilities

Offboarding

- Manage and resolve end-to-end employee exits across multiple international jurisdictions, prioritizing a superior offboarding experience for Remote's clients and their employees. - Provide sound guidance and manage clients' requests on various HR matters, including termination, resignation, and transfer procedures, employment contracts, and redundancy processes, ensuring legal compliance and best practices. - Lead and facilitate meetings with clients and external employees, including workforce reduction consultation meetings, administrative hearings, negotiations in separations and settlements, providing guidance on terminations, and delivering termination outcomes. - Influence and negotiate positive outcomes in complex terminations, balancing multiple stakeholders with competing interests. - Liaise with and coordinate various internal and external stakeholders to ensure compliance in offboarding activities and audits, including payroll, legal counsel, government bodies, and trade unions. - Draft, tailor, and administer all termination and supplementary documents with accuracy and attention to detail, ensuring employee records are maintained with strict adherence to privacy and confidentiality regulations. - Process offboarding on Remote's internal HRIS platform, collaborating with various internal stakeholders, such as Customer Success, Legal, Payroll, Benefits, Time and Attendance, to ensure all aspects of the employee exit are administered correctly and promptly. - Be the subject-matter expert and respond to internal and external queries on all offboarding matters in conjunction with Lifecycle's internal stakeholders. - Navigate clients through Remote's Employee Relations resources and guides, helping them understand applicable policies and processes. - Conduct preliminary assessments of workplace concerns, identifying key facts and applicable local regulations. - Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure appropriate handling of employee relations matters. - Support clients in understanding progressive disciplinary approaches and documentation requirements. - Monitor ongoing employee relations cases, ensuring timely follow-up and coordination with relevant stakeholders. - Actively identify opportunities for and contribute to process improvements, automation, product development, and overall customer and employee experience through the offboarding and employee relations processes.

Key Requirements and Characteristics

- Experience as an HR Advisor or HR Business Partner, with generalist HR competencies and exposure across the employee lifecycle. - Proven experience with a strong background in managing voluntary and involuntary exits (terminations) with care, sensitivity, and legal compliance; and providing comprehensive HR support and guidance on employment laws and regulations, spanning various jurisdictions. - Ability to interpret and apply industrial instruments, analyze complex HR issues, undertake research, provide practical solutions, and effectively communicate recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders when operating in ambiguous and unfamiliar environments. - Basic understanding of employee relations principles, progressive discipline approaches, and workplace investigation fundamentals. - Excellent communication, influencing, conflict management, and negotiation skills, with the ability to confidently lead difficult conversations to a positive outcome, often where parties have conflicting interests, maintaining professionalism and strict confidentiality. - Business-level (advanced) proficiency in written and spoken English, with additional languages considered a plus. - Aptitude and appetite to innovate and optimize processes, continuously identifying and implementing opportunities for automation and championing best practices. - Efficiency in operations, with an awareness of the importance of thorough record-keeping and data integrity. - Tech-savvy, with the ability to successfully collaborate asynchronously on various tools and adapt to new and evolving systems. - Ability to work autonomously and cohesively in an international team in a fast-paced, asynchronous, remote environment with multiple priorities. Willingness to work flexible hours as needed. - Proactive and self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.

Practicals

- You will report to: Manager Employee Lifecycle, Employee Relations & Transitions - Team: Lifecycle, Employee Relations & Transitions - Location: EMEA

Application Process

- Interview with recruiter - Take Home Exercise - Interview with future manager - Interview with team members (no managers present) - Interview with Senior Manager - Bar Raiser - Prior employment verification check

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy ensures fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations where we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance, our salary bands may seem wide—here’s some context. Remote has international operations and a globally distributed workforce…