Employee Relations Manager, Global Corporate Employee Relations - AWS

Amazon; São Paulo; Presencial; BRL 180 000 - 280 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Amazon seeks an Employee Relations Manager for the Global Corporate Employee Relations team to support LATAM AWS business lines from São Paulo, Brazil. The role focuses on employee and labor relations, policy revision, and leadership coaching.

The position requires crisis management skills, strategic project execution, and travel up to 40% annually. Fluency in English and Portuguese is required, with deep LATAM experience ideal.

Qualificações

• Experience in employee relations or labor relations.
• Fluent in English (C1) written and spoken.
• Fluent in Portuguese.
• Knowledge of MS Office (Excel, Word, SharePoint, PowerPoint).

Responsabilidades

• Manage labor relations frameworks for LATAM countries.
• Partner with leaders and HR to maintain positive employee relations.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across LATAM to execute strategies.
• Provide expert consultation to HR, managers, and leaders on complex matters.
• Conduct employee experience assessments and monitor sentiment.

Conhecimentos

Employee relations

Labor relations

English (C1)

Portuguese fluency

Ferramentas

Microsoft Office

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Employee Relations Manager, Global Corporate Employee Relations - AWS

The Global Corporate Employee Relations (GCER) team at Amazon is seeking an Employee Relations Manager to support Latin American (LATAM) AWS business lines. This position requires an individual who has significant employee and labor relations experience, deep subject matter knowledge, and strong communication and interpersonal skills that enable the individual to work successfully on a broad spectrum of employee and labor relations issues and projects.

The central objective of GCER is to ensure our organization’s treatment of employees is fair, respectful, and consistent with our framework of our core business values and objectives. To support that objective, this position will focus on local activities that support and improve the employee experience.

Key job responsibilities

The individual will:

• Manage labor relations frameworks for countries across AWS LATAM
• Partner with business leaders and human resources teams to create and sustain positive employee relationships and best practices
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders across LATAM to align, drive, and execute employee and labor relations strategies and initiatives
• Provide expert consultation and coaching to HR, managers, and business leaders on complex employee matters
• Conduct employee experience assessments and monitor workforce sentiment indicators to proactively identify pain points, develop targeted mitigation strategies, and address employee concerns at the earliest opportunity
• Work directly with Amazon employees at all levels to identify, address, and resolve concerns through mechanisms like listening sessions, focus groups, conflict resolution, and one-on-one coaching
• Diagnose gaps and revise people programs, policies, and practices to sustain positive Employee Relations and proactively mitigate risk
• Design and deliver training programs on positive employee relations, and leadership best practices in partnership with Employment Legal teams
• Analyze and synthesize a variety of data sources to identify emerging trends, predictive patterns, and areas of opportunity across employee relations domains
• Translate insights into actionable and compelling recommendations for business leaders through regular reporting requirements; actively engage AI tooling to augment Employee Relations reporting, analysis, and process improvements
• Assist in strategic business writing or contributing/leading the development of business operational documents and strategic initiatives
• Successfully manage and resolve conflicts at all levels of the organization in partnership with HR

The individual will also work reactively on critical employee relations issues that are crisis-oriented and escalated by business leadership and/or HR. These matters are often time-sensitive, requiring swift resolution under pressure. Balancing time between strategic projects and crisis-response is a critical component for success in this role.

This position reports to the Director, AWS Employee Relations, is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and is a full-time role that may require significant travel, up to 40% of the time over the course of the year to various Amazon locations.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in employee relations, labor relations, or labor/employment law
• Speak, write, and read fluently in English at C1 level or above
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, SharePoint, and PowerPoint)
• Experience in written and oral communication, including the ability to communicate with all levels in the organization (technical, business, executive)
• Experience handling confidential information and maintaining professionalism in dealing with senior executives, or experience completing complex tasks quickly with little to no guidance and react with appropriate urgency to situations that require a quick turnaround
• Speak, write, and read fluently in Portuguese
• LATAM multi-country Employee and Labor Relations experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Speak, write, and read fluently in Spanish
• Experience with employee engagement frameworks and/or collective bargaining across multiple LATAM countries, grounded in an understanding of each country's unique employment laws
• International Employee and Labor Relations experience
• Lead and manage complex workplace investigations into allegations of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and other policy violations; ensure investigations are thorough, timely, well documented, and result in fair, defensible outcomes
• Advanced degree, law degree, or other specialized training in employee relations
• Experience using quantitative and qualitative data to conduct organizational risk assessments, with demonstrated ability to identify when individual employee issues signal broader systemic risk

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