Employee Relations Manager

K&K Talents; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

K&K Talents is hiring an Employee Relations Manager in Amsterdam to lead Europe-wide ER functions. You will handle disciplinary processes, investigations, and performance issues while aligning with local laws and company policies.

This is a senior, strategic role requiring deep HR experience across Continental Europe and strong collaboration with legal teams. The role emphasizes proactive ER management, governance of value violations, and cooperation with labour authorities and unions to

Qualifications

• 15+ years’ HR experience with at least 7 years in Employee Relations across Europe.
• Proven specialist in Employee Relations with strategic impact.
• Strong leadership, proactive and resilient in a fast‑paced international environment.
• Solid employment law knowledge and risk‑based decision making.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience coordinating investigations and whistleblower scenarios.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, PPT).

Responsibilities

• Lead ER strategy for Europe and advise Business and HR leaders.
• Owns and improves ER processes and documentation.
• Lead investigations, disciplinary actions, and performance‑related processes.
• Review and improve ER policies for value violations and grievances.
• Partner with Legal, Labour authorities, and unions as needed.
• Guide HR partners and leaders on compliance and incident handling.
• Conduct trend analysis to prevent incidents and train managers.

Skills

ER

EU operations

Investigations

Disciplinary processes

Performance management

Labor law

Stakeholder management

Communication

Coaching

MS Office

Tools

HRIS/ATS

Job description

K&K Talents is an international recruiting agency that has been providing technical resources in the European region since 1993. This position is with one of our clients in Netherlands who is actively hiring candidates to expand their teams.

Role: Employee Relations Manager

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Employment Type: Full-time Permanent

As the Lead of the Employee Relations functions in Europe, you will be the point of contact for all Employee Relations matters in the countries of operations in continental Europe such as preventive and corrective actions of behavior/value incidents, disciplinary processes, major employee grievances and investigations.

Details of Roles & responsibility: Strategic ER Management:

• Responsible for ER strategy for specific region. Provides specialist advice on employee relations requirements and procedures to Business leaders, HR leaders and Sr management
• Establishing/sustaining/and improving ER process and process owner for operational matrices
• Drives ER processes including separations/terminations, absence management, performance management, workplace grievances, investigations and creation of required documentation to support those processes in close coordination with Legal teams.
• Review the Employee relations practices/policies involving value violations (disciplinary process), grievance redressal process, performance deficiency process and suggest changes/improvements
• Guide & enable Business partner HR, Business leaders, Manager community on the following:
• Values adherence: Proactive measures to avoid the occurrence of various types of value digressions. In case of incidents of value digressions, process & methods to conduct investigations and ensuing actions
• Employee grievances: Proactive measures to avoid the occurrence of grievances among employees to ensure a positive work environment. In case of the occurrence of grievances, process to be followed.
• Performance deficiencies: Enable Business partner HR and Business leaders on the process to be followed in of performance improvement plans or poor performance exits.
• Drive anti-sexual harassment initiatives, and coordinate internal investigations in case of any incident
• Work with Labour authorities and other stake holders for statutory compliances involving Employee relations functions.
• Work with Unions (if any) as applicable with an objective of a positive work environment in line with Business strategy and business need
• Conduct or support central teams in case of any whistleblower investigations as needed
• Conduct trend analysis to forecast and take measures to prevent incidents
• Undertake management development activities by coaching, influencing, and sharing knowledge to increase manager’s abilities to manage their teams.
• Stay current on employment law, ER practices and trends.
• Track and interpret tends in employee relations to proactively identify issues and develop training and other interventions and solutions.
• Promote the Company’s Culture and policies.

Knowledge & skills

• Minimum of 15+ years’ experience in HR with at least 7 years experience to Employee Relations functions in Europe.
• ER Manager will be a subject matter expert in Employee Relations.
• Strong team players enjoy a fast paced, evolving international environment and who is proactive, assertive, decisive, and resilient.
• A key capability is the ability to understand the global business context and to be able to make practical, risk-based decisions that drive business outcomes based on solid employment law knowledge and experience, process improvement mindset and key understanding of HR matters.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills
• Experience in dealing with conflict resolution
• Ability to adapt quickly to a changing environment
• Coaching and Influencing skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office skills (Outlook, Excel, Word, PPT etc.).

Note: Applicants for employment in Netherlands should possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.