Employee Relations Manager

Nike; Paris; Sur place; EUR 60 000 - 80 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A leading sports apparel company seeks a Manager of Employee Relations in Paris to conduct complex workplace investigations and provide proactive solutions. You will work with HR, Legal, and Business Leaders to ensure compliance with policies. Ideal candidates will have substantial experience in HR, strong influencing skills, and proficiency in both French and English. This role offers a dynamic environment with the opportunity to shape employee relations practices.

Qualifications

• Substantial professional experience in Employee Relations and investigations.
• Deep expertise in conducting workplace investigations related to HR policies.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with proficiency in French and English.

Responsabilités

• Conduct employee focused workplace investigations into harassment and discrimination.
• Draft formal investigative reports in French and English.
• Communicate investigation findings and provide recommendations.

Connaissances

Employee Relations

Workplace Investigations

Employment Law

Influencing Skills

Communication Skills

Description du poste

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Nike, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

Who we are looking for?

We’re looking for a Manager of Employee Relations. This role takes care of conducting employee focused workplace investigations into harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and conflicts of interest and providing proactive solutions to maintain compliance with policies, practices, and values. You will be required to conduct day-to-day investigations in the retail and corporate environment across EMEA.

You need to demonstrate strong leadership behaviors, including instilling trust and self-awareness, and be a subject matter authority in workplace investigations. You must have strong influencing skills with employees at all levels of the organization, communicate effectively and remain calm under pressure in difficult situations, have proven experience in performing complex investigations.

What you will work on!

You will be working with the Employment Law and Employee Relations team to conduct complicated, high-risk workplace investigations. A typical day/week looks like:

• Conducting employee focused investigations primarily into matters of harassment, discrimination and retaliation (Code of Conduct matters), together with other significant policy breaches.
• Using Nike’s investigation and case management guidelines to ensure adherence to case management practices, SLAs, and employee experience.
• Encouraging and maintaining positive relationships with HR, Legal and Business Leaders across the enterprise.
• Drafting formal investigative reports (in French and English).
• Communicating investigation findings and providing recommendations (including corrective action) to influence business leaders and partners to make decisions that align with Nike Inc. policies and procedures.
• Applying analytics to engage in proactive ER practices to reduce the total number of complaints received and to improve organizational health.
• Operating with integrity, confidentiality and demonstrating good judgment when engaging with others and making decisions; modeling our leadership behaviors every day.

Who you will work with!

You’ll partner with members of the ER team on a day-to-day basis, employees at all levels of the organization (including in retail and corporate), HR and Legal partners and business leaders. You will report to the EMEA Employee Relations Director.

What you bring

• Substantial professional experience in Employee Relations, investigations, and/or employment law.
• A solid understanding of employment law, employee and/or labor relations, including working with Works Councils.
• Deep expertise in conducting complex workplace investigations related to HR policies including discrimination, harassment and retaliation. Investigations into other Code of Conduct policy violations advantageous.
• Expertise in conducting investigations in different jurisdictions across EMEA, with an understanding of the various local procedural and statutory requirements.
• Strong influencing skills with proven success in influencing employees at all levels of the organization, across geographically distributed teams, in a consultative methodology.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with ability to objectively mentor employees through complex issues.
• Organizational skills; including the ability to effectively prioritize and meet deadlines, as well as multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• The ability to collaborate cross functionally, (country, geo and globally) in a highly matrixed environment.
• Written and verbal proficiency in French and English.