Employee Relations Business Partner - EMEA

Remote is hiring an Employee Relations Business Partner for EMEA. The role manages employee exits for Remote's external employees across multiple countries, with a focus on legal compliance and customer service, and provides first-level employee relations support to clients.

This is for someone with HR Advisor or HR Business Partner experience who has handled voluntary and involuntary terminations and can lead difficult conversations with clients and employees.

What you will do

• Manage end-to-end employee exits across multiple international jurisdictions, prioritizing a good offboarding experience for clients and their employees.
• Advise clients on HR matters including termination, resignation and transfer procedures, employment contracts, and redundancy processes.
• Lead and facilitate meetings with clients and external employees, including workforce reduction consultation meetings, administrative hearings, negotiations in separations and settlements, guidance on terminations, and delivery of termination outcomes.
• Negotiate outcomes in complex terminations where stakeholders have competing interests.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders on compliance in offboarding activities and audits, including payroll, legal counsel, government bodies, and trade unions.
• Draft, tailor and administer termination and supplementary documents, keeping employee records accurate and confidential.
• Process offboarding on Remote's internal HRIS platform, working with Customer Success, Legal, Payroll, Benefits, and Time and Attendance.
• Answer internal and external queries on offboarding matters.
• Guide clients through Remote's Employee Relations resources and help 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 on employee relations matters.
• Support clients in understanding progressive disciplinary approaches and documentation requirements.
• Monitor ongoing employee relations cases and follow up with relevant stakeholders.
• Identify and contribute to process improvements, automation, and product development.

What they are looking for

• Experience as an HR Advisor or HR Business Partner, with generalist HR competencies and exposure across the employee lifecycle.
• A strong background in managing voluntary and involuntary exits with care, sensitivity and legal compliance, and in providing HR support and guidance on employment laws across various jurisdictions.
• Ability to interpret and apply industrial instruments, analyze complex HR issues, research, provide practical solutions, and communicate recommendations 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 lead difficult conversations to a positive outcome while maintaining professionalism and confidentiality.
• Business-level (advanced) written and spoken English. Additional languages are a plus.
• Aptitude and appetite to innovate and optimize processes, continuously identifying and implementing opportunities for automation.
• Efficiency in operations, with awareness of the importance of record-keeping and data integrity.
• Tech-savvy, able to collaborate asynchronously on various tools and adapt to new 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.
• Strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency.

Pay and practicals

The salary range is USD 46,500 to 104,650 per year. Remote says its salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and that job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay depends on factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. Remote uses geo ranges to account for geographic pay differentials.

You will report to the Manager Employee Lifecycle, Employee Relations & Transitions, on the Lifecycle, Employee Relations & Transitions team. The location is EMEA. All positions at Remote are fully remote.

Application process

1. Interview with recruiter
2. Take home exercise
3. Interview with future manager
4. Interview with team members (no managers present)
5. Interview with Senior Manager
6. Bar Raiser
7. Prior employment verification check

About Remote

Remote builds software that lets businesses of all sizes recruit, pay, and manage international teams. The team works asynchronously from six continents. Innovation is one of its core values, and automation and AI capabilities are built into the requirements for every role.