Senior HR Lifecycle Specialist, Employee Relations and Transitions – EMEA

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

📋 Description

• Oversee and resolve the complete cycle of employee exits across various international jurisdictions.

• Provide guidance to clients on termination, resignation, transfers, employment contracts, and redundancy procedures.

• Facilitate consultations on workforce reductions, administrative hearings, separation and settlement negotiations, and termination meetings.

• Negotiate and influence outcomes in intricate termination situations.

• Collaborate with payroll, legal counsel, government bodies, trade unions, and other relevant stakeholders.

• Draft, customize, and manage termination and supplementary documentation.

• Navigate offboarding processes within Remote’s internal HRIS platform.

• Act as a subject-matter expert on offboarding issues and respond to inquiries.

• Assist clients with Employee Relations resources, policies, and procedures.

• Perform initial assessments of workplace issues and pinpoint applicable regulations.

• Oversee the management of employee relations matters and track ongoing cases.

• Promote progressive disciplinary methods and maintain proper documentation.

• Recognize and contribute to enhancements in processes, automation, product development, and initiatives aimed at improving customer and employee experiences.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience as an HR Advisor or HR Business Partner with comprehensive HR knowledge spanning the employee lifecycle.

• Significant experience handling voluntary and involuntary exits with empathy, sensitivity, and adherence to legal standards.

• Proficient in providing HR support regarding employment laws and regulations across diverse jurisdictions.

• Capability to interpret and apply industrial instruments, evaluate complex HR challenges, conduct research, and offer practical solutions.

• Fundamental understanding of employee relations principles, progressive discipline, and workplace investigations.

• Exceptional communication, persuasion, conflict management, and negotiation abilities.

• Business-level (advanced) proficiency in both written and spoken English.

• Strong inclination towards process innovation, optimization, automation, and best practices.

• Operationally efficient with meticulous record-keeping and data integrity.

• Tech-savvy with the ability to adapt to changing systems and asynchronous collaboration tools.

• Capability to work independently in a fast-paced, international, asynchronous, remote setting.

• Willingness to accommodate flexible working hours as required.

• Robust skills in automation and AI, along with fluency in AI technologies.

• Successful completion of prior employment verification check.

🏝️ Benefits

• Work from anywhere.

• Flexible paid time off.

• Flexible working hours (we operate asynchronously).

• 16 weeks of paid parental leave.

• Budget allocated for co-working spaces, learning, and wellness (including gym memberships).

• Mental health support services.

• Stock options.

• Home office budget & IT equipment.

• Emphasis on life-work balance and schedule autonomy.