Senior HR Lifecycle Specialist, Employee Relations and Transitions – EMEA

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in France.

📋 Description

• Oversee and address the complete employee exit process across various international jurisdictions, ensuring an exceptional offboarding experience for Remote's clients and their employees.

• Offer expert advice and manage client inquiries on diverse HR issues, including but not limited to termination, resignation, transfer procedures, employment contracts, and redundancy processes, while ensuring compliance with legal standards and best practices.

• Lead and conduct meetings with clients and external employees, including but not limited to consultations on workforce reductions, administrative hearings, negotiations regarding separations and settlements, providing insights on terminations, and delivering outcomes related to terminations.

• Influence and negotiate favorable outcomes in complex termination situations, balancing the interests of various stakeholders.

• Collaborate with and coordinate various internal and external parties to guarantee compliance in offboarding activities and audits, including but not limited to payroll, legal counsel, government agencies, and trade unions.

• Prepare, customize, and manage all termination and supplementary documents with precision and attention to detail, ensuring employee records are kept in strict accordance with privacy and confidentiality regulations.

• Execute offboarding on Remote's internal HRIS platform, working together with various internal teams such as Customer Success, Legal, Payroll, Benefits, Time and Attendance, among others, to ensure all facets of the employee exit are handled accurately and promptly.

• Serve as the subject-matter expert and address internal and external inquiries regarding all offboarding issues in conjunction with Lifecycle's internal stakeholders.

• Guide clients through Remote's Employee Relations resources and materials, assisting them in understanding relevant policies and processes.

• Perform initial assessments of workplace concerns, pinpointing key facts and relevant local regulations.

• Coordinate with internal and external parties to ensure proper handling of employee relations issues.

• Aid clients in grasping progressive disciplinary measures and documentation requirements.

• Track ongoing employee relations cases, ensuring timely follow-ups and coordination with the appropriate stakeholders.

• Actively seek out opportunities for and contribute to process enhancements, automation, product development, and the overall customer and employee experience throughout the offboarding and employee relations processes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience as an HR Advisor or HR Business Partner, with generalist HR skills and knowledge across the employee lifecycle.

• Proven experience with a solid background in managing both voluntary and involuntary exits (terminations) with care, sensitivity, and legal compliance, along with providing thorough HR support and guidance on employment laws and regulations across various jurisdictions.

• Capability to interpret and apply industrial instruments, analyze intricate HR issues, conduct research, deliver practical solutions, and effectively communicate recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders in ambiguous and unfamiliar contexts.

• Basic understanding of employee relations principles, progressive discipline strategies, and the fundamentals of workplace investigations.

• Exceptional communication, influencing, conflict management, and negotiation skills, with the ability to confidently navigate challenging conversations to a positive conclusion, often involving parties with conflicting interests while maintaining professionalism and strict confidentiality.

• Business-level (advanced) proficiency in written and spoken English, with proficiency in additional languages considered a bonus.

• Willingness and ability to innovate and enhance processes, consistently identifying and implementing opportunities for automation and promoting best practices.

• Operational efficiency, with an awareness of the significance of meticulous record-keeping and data integrity.

• Technologically adept, with the ability to successfully collaborate asynchronously using various tools and adapt to new and evolving systems.

• Capability to work independently and collaboratively in an international team within a fast-paced, asynchronous, remote environment with multiple priorities. Flexibility to work hours as necessary.

• Proactive and self-driven with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.

• Demonstrates strong automation and AI capabilities and fluency in AI technologies.

🏝️ Benefits

• Work from anywhere

• Flexible paid time off

• Flexible working hours (we are async)

• 16 weeks paid parental leave

• Mental health support services

• Stock options

• Learning budget

• Home office budget & IT equipment

• Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces