Senior Labour Relations Manager

Sage; Barcelona; Híbrido; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Flexible benefits

Medical and dental insurance

Well-being support

Flexibility in working hours

Annual leave and volunteering days

Financial support options

Descripción de la vacante

Sage in Barcelona is seeking a strategic expert in European labour and employee relations. You will influence Sage’s national strategy, ensuring regulatory compliance while enabling business transformation.

This role requires extensive experience with works councils and union engagement, alongside the ability to handle complex labour-related matters. You will also modernize employee representation approaches across Europe.

Benefits include flexible working arrangements, medical health insurance, and extensive leave policies.

Formación

• Extensive experience in labour and employee relations in a multi-country organization.
• Strong expertise in managing works council and union relations.
• Proven track record in supporting transformation programmes.

Responsabilidades

• Deliver national employee relations strategy aligning with business priorities.
• Serve as an escalation point for complex labour relations issues.
• Engage proactively with European employee representatives.

Conocimientos

Labour relations expertise

Works council engagement

Organisational change support

Senior executive collaboration

Governance frameworks design

European employee representation

Global transformation exposure

Regulatory knowledge

Descripción del empleo

You will play a key role in shaping and delivering Sage’s European labour and employee relations strategy at a national level, ensuring regulatory compliance while enabling business agility, transformation, and growth.

Working at the intersection of people, business, and regulation, you’ll help modernise how we engage with employee representative bodies, including works councils and trade unions. You’ll act as a trusted adviser to senior leaders, helping to reduce risk while enabling transformation programmes across priority European markets.

Overview of the team

The Global Labour Relations team sits within the People Function and provides enterprise-level leadership, strategy, and execution for labour relations, trade unions, and works councils across Sage’s European footprint.

This role forms part of a centralised Global Labour Relations capability, designed to consolidate expertise, reduce regional burden, and ensure a consistent, proactive, and compliant approach to engagement.

Barcelona, Spain

Hybrid Working – 3 days per week in our Barcelona office and 2 days from home.

What we are looking for?

You’ll bring deep expertise in labour and employee relations within a complex, multi-country European environment, along with the ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels.

Experience and skills you’ll bring:

• Extensive experience leading labour and employee relations at a senior level within a multi-country organisation.
• Strong expertise in works council engagement, collective consultation, and union relations.
• Proven ability to support large-scale organisational change or transformation programmes.
• Experience working closely with senior executives, legal advisors, and employee representative bodies.
• Demonstrated capability in designing governance frameworks and operating rhythms.
• Experience establishing or evolving European employee representation structures. (e.g. EWC, SNB)
• Exposure to global transformation programmes and matrixed operating environments.
• Knowledge of emerging regulatory topics such as EU Pay Transparency and workforce modernisation.

What you’ll be doing:

• Shaping and delivering national labour and employee relations strategy aligned to business priorities.
• Acting as an escalation point for complex, high-risk labour relations matters.
• Modernising employee representation approaches to support agile and effective consultation.
• Enabling transformation through proactive engagement with European representative bodies.
• Designing governance frameworks and ensuring clear reporting, risk visibility, and operating rhythm.
• Building trusted relationships with unions, works councils, and external partners.
• Contributing to capability building across the European LR/ER community.

What’s in it for you?

At Sage, we offer you an environment where you can grow professionally without compromising your personal well‑being. Our benefits package is designed to provide stability, flexibility, and balance:

• Flexible benefits: exchange part of your salary and make tax savings on meal and transport vouchers, childcare, and training.
• Medical and dental insurance: Fully funded medical and dental insurance.
• Well‑being: Free access to the Calm app (for up to 5 users), 24/7 counseling, and emotional support from our Healthy Mind Coaches. We also offer self‑care and parenting resources through the Cleo app.
• Flexible working: flexibility of working one hour in, one hour out, shortened workdays on Fridays and during the summer, and the opportunity to work from over 40 countries for up to 10 weeks per year through our Work Away program.
• Annual leave: 23 working days of vacation, 5 paid days per year for volunteering, and 5 additional paid days annually for personal or professional development.
• Extended leave: 7 extra days of maternity leave and 5 extra days of paternity leave, on top of the legal allowance, available after one year of service.
• Financial support: Life and disability insurance, salary advances of up to 3.5 times your net monthly pay, a €300 net marriage bonus, and access to Sage's employee stock purchase plan at a discounted rate.

Health and Safety Responsibilities

• Fostering the safety culture, by leading with your own example.
• Following established safety procedures and reporting potential hazards promptly helps maintain a secure and efficient workplace.
• Participating in safety training sessions and adhering to preventive guidelines and procedures, the objective is minimizing risks and protecting yourself and the rest of your colleagues.