Senior Lifecycle Specialist, Employee Relations and Transitions

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

📋 Description

• Oversee and resolve intricate employee exit processes from start to finish with minimal supervision across various international jurisdictions.

• Offer advice on termination, resignation, transfers, employment contracts, redundancy procedures, and relevant employment laws and regulations.

• Lead and conduct meetings with clients and external employees, which may include workforce reduction consultations, administrative hearings, separation negotiations, and termination outcomes.

• Advocate for and negotiate favorable results during complex termination situations.

• Collaborate with payroll, legal counsel, government entities, labor unions, and internal stakeholders.

• Draft, customize, and manage termination and additional documents while ensuring the maintenance of accurate and confidential employee records.

• Execute offboarding processes within Remote’s internal HRIS platform alongside Customer Success, Legal, Payroll, Benefits, and Time and Attendance teams.

• Act as an escalation point and mentor for junior team members.

• Provide initial-level Employee Relations support and guidance on intricate workplace scenarios.

• Evaluate workplace concerns, pinpoint relevant facts and regulations, and propose actionable solutions.

• Advise clients on progressive discipline, documentation needs, and challenging workplace situations.

• Monitor and track employee relations cases, ensuring timely follow-up.

• Resolve offboarding and first-level employee relations inquiries as a subject-matter expert.

• Propel process enhancements, automation, product development, and improvements in customer and employee experiences.

• Establish methods, procedures, and standards for new assignments while adapting complex techniques to achieve desired outcomes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience as an HR Advisor or HR Business Partner with a solid foundation in generalist HR skills and employee lifecycle exposure.

• Tertiary qualifications in HR, labor relations, or employment law are considered advantageous.

• Proven track record of independently managing voluntary and involuntary exits with care, sensitivity, and adherence to legal standards.

• Comprehensive understanding of employment laws and regulations across diverse jurisdictions.

• Familiarity with employee relations principles, progressive discipline methods, and fundamentals of workplace investigations.

• Capability to interpret and apply industrial instruments and analyze intricate HR issues.

• Skill in researching issues, creating valuable team resources, and delivering practical recommendations.

• Exceptional communication, influencing, conflict resolution, and negotiation abilities.

• Proven ability to independently navigate challenging conversations towards constructive outcomes.

• Advanced proficiency in written and spoken English at a business level.

• Talent for process innovation, optimization, automation, and implementation of best practices.

• Strong awareness of operational efficiency, record-keeping, and data integrity.

• Technologically adept and capable of adjusting to evolving systems and asynchronous collaboration tools.

• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, international, asynchronous remote environment while managing competing priorities.

• Willingness to work flexible hours as required.

• Proactive, self-driven, accountable, and capable of inspiring others.

• Strong capabilities in automation, AI, and fluency in AI technologies.

🏝️ Benefits

• Work from anywhere.

• Flexible paid time off.

• Flexible working hours (we operate asynchronously).

• 16 weeks of paid parental leave.

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

• Access to mental health support services.

• Stock options.

• Home office budget and IT equipment.

• Emphasis on life-work balance and schedule flexibility.