Senior Lifecycle Specialist, Employee Relations & Transitions - EMEA

Remote; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 60.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Work from anywhere

Flexible paid time off

Flexible working hours (async)

16 weeks paid parental leave

Stock options

Home office budget & IT equipment

Zusammenfassung

Remote is seeking an experienced HR Advisor to manage end-to-end exits across multiple international jurisdictions while ensuring a compliant, high-quality offboarding experience for clients and their employees. You will advise on terminations, resignations, contracts, and redundancies, and lead client meetings to deliver favorable outcomes.

This role thrives in a fast-paced, remote, async environment, requiring strong communication, negotiation, and process-automation skills to continually

Qualifikationen

• Experience as an HR Advisor or HR Business Partner across the employee lifecycle.
• Strong background in managing voluntary and involuntary exits with care, legal compliance, and guidance on employment laws across jurisdictions.
• Ability to interpret industrial instruments, analyze HR issues, and communicate recommendations.

Aufgaben

• Manage end-to-end employee exits across multiple international jurisdictions with a focus on a superior offboarding experience.
• Provide guidance on HR matters including termination, resignation, transfers, contracts, and redundancies, ensuring compliance.
• Lead meetings with clients and employees, including workforce reduction consultations and negotiations, delivering outcomes.

Kenntnisse

HR advisory

Employee lifecycle

Exits management

Regulatory compliance

Communication & negotiation

Automation & AI

Remote collaboration

Tools

HRIS systems

MS Office/Sheets

Jobbeschreibung

Introduction

As a critical extension of our clients’ HR teams, we navigate and advise on the intricate paths of global employment with unmatched speed, expertise, and precision. The vision of the Lifecycle team at Remote is not just about maintaining the gold standard in HR practices; it’s about elevating it, integrating cutting‑edge technology solutions, and enriching customer experiences in over 80+ countries. On this team, your work directly influences our ability to sustain and extend our compliance coverage, continuously enhance our customer journeys, and significantly increase our operational capacity. You’re not just part of a team; you’re at the forefront of shaping the future of work, ensuring every interaction is fast, intuitive, and profoundly impactful. Dive into a role where your passion for innovation, commitment to excellence, and drive to make a global difference aligns with our mission to empower organizations worldwide to employ anyone, anywhere — compliantly.

Introduction

As a critical extension of our clients’ HR teams, we navigate and advise on the intricate paths of global employment with unmatched speed, expertise, and precision. The vision of the Lifecycle team at Remote is not just about maintaining the gold standard in HR practices; it’s about elevating it, integrating cutting‑edge technology solutions, and enriching customer experiences in over 80+ countries. On this team, your work directly influences our ability to sustain and extend our compliance coverage, continuously enhance our customer journeys, and significantly increase our operational capacity. You’re not just part of a team; you’re at the forefront of shaping the future of work, ensuring every interaction is fast, intuitive, and profoundly impactful. Dive into a role where your passion for innovation, commitment to excellence, and drive to make a global difference aligns with our mission to empower organizations worldwide to employ anyone, anywhere — compliantly.

Job Description

• Manage and resolve end-to-end employee exits across multiple international jurisdictions, prioritizing a superior offboarding experience for Remote’s clients and their employees.
• Provide sound guidance and manage clients' requests on various HR matters, including but not limited to termination, resignation and transfer procedures, employment contracts, and redundancy processes, ensuring legal compliance and best practices.
• Lead and facilitate meetings with clients and external employees, including but not limited to workforce reduction consultation meetings, administrative hearings, negotiations in separations and settlements, providing guidance on terminations, and delivering termination outcomes.
• Influence and negotiate positive outcomes in complex terminations, balancing multiple stakeholders with competing interests.
• Liaise with and coordinate various internal and external stakeholders to ensure compliance in offboarding activities and audits, including but not limited to payroll, legal counsel, government bodies, and trade unions.
• Draft, tailor and administer all termination and supplementary documents with accuracy and attention to detail, ensuring employee records are maintained with strict adherence to privacy and confidentiality regulations.
• Process offboarding on Remote’s internal HRIS platform, collaborating with various internal stakeholders, such as Customer Success, Legal, Payroll, Benefits, Time and Attendance, amongst other verticals, to ensure all aspects of the employee exit are administered correctly and promptly.
• Be the subject‑matter expert and respond to internal and external queries on all offboarding matters in conjunction with Lifecycle's internal stakeholders.
• Navigate clients through Remote’s Employee Relations resources and guides, helping them understand applicable policies and processes.
• Conduct preliminary assessment of workplace concerns, identifying key facts and applicable local regulations.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure appropriate handling of employee relations matters.
• Support clients in understanding progressive disciplinary approaches and documentation requirements.
• Monitor ongoing employee relations cases, ensuring timely follow‑up and coordination with relevant stakeholders.
• Actively identify opportunities for and contribute to process improvements, automation, product development and overall customer and employee experience through the offboarding and employee relations processes.

What You Bring

• Experience as a HR Advisor or HR Business Partner, with generalist HR competencies and exposure across the employee lifecycle.
• Proven experience with a strong background in managing voluntary and involuntary exits (terminations) with care, sensitivity and legal compliance; and providing comprehensive HR support and guidance on employment laws and regulations, spanning various jurisdictions.
• Ability to interpret and apply industrial instruments, analyze complex HR issues, undertake research, provide practical solutions and effectively communicate recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders 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 confidently lead difficult conversations to a positive outcome, often where parties have conflicting interests, maintaining professionalism and strict confidentiality.
• Business‑level (advanced) proficiency in written and spoken English, with additional languages considered a plus.
• Aptitude and appetite to innovate and optimize processes, continuously identifying and implementing opportunities for automation and championing best practices.
• Efficiency in operations, with an awareness of the importance of thorough record‑keeping and data integrity.
• Tech‑savvy, with the ability to successfully collaborate asynchronously on various tools, and adapt to new and evolving 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.
• Demonstrates strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency.

Practicals

• You'll report to: Manager Employee Lifecycle, Employee Relations & Transitions
• Team: Lifecycle, Employee Relations & Transitions
• Location: EMEA

Benefits

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:

• work from anywhere
• flexible paid time off
• flexible working hours (we are async)
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• budget towards co‑working spaces, learning and wellness (including gym memberships)
• mental health support services
• stock options
• home office budget & IT equipment

How You’ll Plan Your Day (and Life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async. You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want,

Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under‑represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter. We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to. At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines check see here. We will accept applications on an ongoing basis.