Senior Specialist, Employee Relations - EMEA

remotereferralboardinternaluseonly; Deutschland; Hybrid; EUR 65.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Work from anywhere

Flexible paid time off

Flexible working hours (async)

16 weeks paid parental leave

Mental health support services

Stock options

Learning budget

Home office budget & IT equipment

Social events or coworking budget

Zusammenfassung

Remote is seeking a Lifecycle Specialist in Employee Relations & Transitions to manage international offboarding with a strong focus on compliance and customer service. You will coordinate with clients and internal teams to ensure smooth exits, provide guidance on terminations and transfers, and maintain precise employee records.

The role emphasizes cross-border collaboration, asynchronous work, and leveraging automation and AI capabilities to optimize processes, while supporting a global client

Qualifikationen

• Experience as HR Advisor or HRBP with generalist HR skills across the lifecycle.
• Proven ability to manage voluntary and involuntary exits with care and legal compliance across jurisdictions.
• Strong communication, influencing and conflict management skills for difficult conversations.

Aufgaben

• Manage end-to-end offboarding across international jurisdictions with focus on compliance and customer service.
• Lead client meetings and guide on terminations, resignations, and transfers.
• Draft and administer termination documents with accurate record-keeping and privacy adherence.
• Coordinate with payroll, legal counsel, and other stakeholders to ensure compliant offboarding processes.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements, automation, and AI-enabled HR solutions.

Kenntnisse

HR advisory

Employee lifecycle

Offboarding management

Negotiation

English proficiency

Automation & AI mindset

Jobbeschreibung

About Remote

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.

With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.

What this job can offer you

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.

The Lifecycle Specialist, Employee Relations & Transitions manages employee exits for Remote's external employees with a focus on legal compliance and providing delightful customer service. Additionally, the specialist provides first-level Employee Relations support, guiding clients through workplace concerns and coordinating appropriate resources when needed.

As part of a larger employee Lifecycle team, the Specialist is also expected to contribute to process improvements and initiatives in line with Remote's strategic goals and values.

Key Responsibilities

Offboarding

• 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.

Key Requirements and Charactristics

• 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
• mental health support services
• stock options
• learning budget
• home office budget & IT equipment
• budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces

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.

Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.

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