People Partner & Employee Relations Lead, EMEA

monday.com; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity eligibility

Bonus potential

Job summary

monday.com is seeking an EMEA People Partner & Employee Relations Lead to manage employee relations and statutory compliance across six countries, including the UK, France, Germany, Poland, Netherlands, and Switzerland. The role blends ER casework with HRBP responsibilities and requires strong cross-country experience and policy leadership.

You will work independently to drive cases, lead works council activity, and partner with Legal and local leadership to ensure lawful, scalable HR practices

Qualifications

• Fluent English required; French spoken/written highly preferred.
• 4+ years of international HR Business Partner experience across multiple countries.
• Experience managing works council relationships.
• Strong compliance/statutory background with guidance for managers.
• Structured, highly organized with ability to manage multiple jurisdictions.
• Independent, collaborative, and commercially fluent in a fast-paced tech environment.

Responsibilities

• Own employee relations across six countries, investigating, documenting, and resolving cases.
• Lead works council activities and ensure compliance with local labor laws and data privacy.
• Policy management: update handbooks and SOPs to reflect law and scalable practices.
• Run regular compliance audits and training for managers on hiring, termination, and people practices.
• Provide day-to-day People Business Partnering to assigned groups; coach managers on performance and talent.
• Collaborate with Legal, Security, Finance, and other People teams to ensure consistent policy application.

Skills

ER casework

Compliance

Policy management

HRBP

Works council

Stakeholder management

Job description

monday.com is the AI work platform powering the most ambitious teams. 250,000+ customers across departments use us to bring people, workflows, and AI agents together on one flexible platform where AI doesn’t just assist, it executes. We move fast, build things that matter, and foster an ownership-driven culture where you’re empowered to shape how organisations work and outpace their competition.

We’re creating a new People Partner & Employee Relations Lead role on the EMEA People team to build out our Employee Relations and HR Compliance capability across the region, alongside a partial People Partner support role. This is roughly a 60% ER & Compliance / 40% HRBP split.

Countries currently in scope: UK, France, Germany, Poland, Netherlands and Switzerland.

About The Role

As our EMEA footprint has grown, so has the complexity of managing employee relations and statutory compliance consistently in multiple jurisdictions. This role will own that complexity: handling ER casework end-to-end, lead works council activity, keeping us compliant with local labor law and data privacy requirements, and making sure our policies and manager practices hold up across every country we operate in.

You’ll work independently to drive ER cases and compliance projects to resolution, while partnering closely with People Partners, Legal, and local leadership. You’ll also have Business Partner responsibility for a defined set of groups, so you’ll need to be equally comfortable running a grievance investigation and supporting managers in business related activities. You know how to balance employment law compliance and risk mitigation with the agility, speed, and continuous evolution of a high-growth tech environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Employee Relations: Own workplace conflict, performance, disciplinary, and grievance cases across the region - investigating fairly, managing risk, and driving cases to a compliant and timely resolution.
• Statutory Compliance: Monitor and enforce compliance with local labor law, working time regulations, compensation standards, and data privacy requirements across all six countries.
• Policy Management: Own and evolve HR policies, employee handbooks, and SOPs - ensuring they reflect current law, scalable practices, and are usable by managers day-to-day.
• Risk Mitigation: Run regular compliance audits and train managers on lawful hiring, termination, and everyday people-management practices.
• Work Council Ownership: Act as the primary point of contact for works councils - preparing materials, running consultations, and managing the relationships. (Currently not active).
• HRBP (c. 40%): Provide day-to-day People Business Partnering to an assigned set of groups - coaching managers, supporting workforce planning, and partnering on performance and talent conversations.
• Partner cross-functionally with a variety of stakeholders including Legal, Security, Finance, and People teams (Talent Acquisition, Total Reward, and L&D) to ensure joined-up support for the business and consistent application of policy.

Requirements:

• Fluent English is a must, plus French (spoken and written) is highly preferred
• Solid multi-country ER and employment law experience across at least several of: UK, France, Germany, Poland, Netherlands, Switzerland.
• 4+ years of relevant international HR Business Partner experience, supporting a variety of departments, especially Sales.
• Experience managing works council relationships.
• Strong compliance/statutory background - comfortable auditing, interpreting local law, and translating it into practical guidance for managers.
• Structured and highly organised - able to manage a caseload and compliance calendar across multiple jurisdictions at once.
• Independent and self-directed - able to move ER cases and projects forward without heavy oversight.
• Collaborative - works effectively with People Partners, Legal, and local leadership; strong stakeholder management.
• Commercial fluency - understands how a sales-driven, target-led business operates and can adapt HR approach accordingly.
• Adaptability & Agility - comfortable operating in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment; able to navigate ambiguity, pivot quickly, and deliver pragmatic HR solutions without adding unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Prior experience in a SaaS or tech environment is a plus.

What monday.com can offer you:

• Join a customer-obsessed team where transparency and ownership are how we actually operate - not just things we put on a wall
• Work on a multi-product suite powered by advanced AI, where what you ship reaches hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide
• Competitive salary, benefits, bonus potential, and equity eligibility for many roles - we believe people should share in our success
• Grow fast through a dedicated L&D team, AI workshops, bootcamps, and internal hackathons - the industry moves quick and so do we
• A collaborative, global culture backed by Employee Resource Groups and workplace teams across New York, Tel Aviv, London, Munich, Warsaw, Tokyo, Sydney, and more