Sr. Lead, Teammate Relations - EMEA

Under Armour, Inc; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthy lifestyle programs

28 days holiday

On-site gym

Job summary

Under Armour, Inc. is seeking a Senior Lead, Teammate Relations EMEA to guide employee relations across EMEA Retail and Corporate, ensuring fair and confidential handling of concerns and investigations.

The role also governs sickness/leave processes and partners with multiple internal teams to standardize practices. The position follows a hybrid schedule with Amsterdam-based work, requiring strong governance, data analytics, and stakeholder management skills to minimize risk and ensure

Qualifications

• Proven experience in employee relations, investigations, and confidential matters.
• Strong understanding of employment law across multiple countries in EMEA.
• Ability to design governance frameworks, RACIs, and escalation processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex ER cases, investigations, and employee concerns across EMEA Retail and Corporate.
• Own sickness and leave governance framework; define processes and manager guidance.
• Develop dashboards, playbooks, and governance processes to scale ER across regions.
• Collaborate with HRBPs, HR Operations, Legal and external vendors.

Skills

Employee relations

Investigations

Policy application

Risk mitigation

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

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At Under Armour, we are committed to empowering those who strive for more, and the company's values - Act Sustainably, Celebrate the Wins, Fight on Together, Love Athletes and Stand for Equality - serve as both a roadmap for our teams and the qualities expected of every teammate.

Our Values define and unite us, the beliefs that are the red thread that connects everyone at Under Armour. Our values are rallying cries, reminding us why we're here, and fueling everything we do.

Our pursuit of better begins with innovation and with our team's mission of being the best. With us, you get the freedom to go further - no matter your role. That means developing, delivering, and selling the state-of-the-art products and digital tools that make top performers even better.

The Senior Lead, Teammate Relations EMEA is a critical regional role within the EMEA HR organization. The role is responsible for leading and governing the Teammate Relations agenda across EMEA Retail and Corporate populations, ensuring a consistent, fair, confidential and legally aligned approach to teammate concerns, investigations, corrective actions, conflict resolution and workplace risk.

This role acts as the EMEA subject matter expert for Teammate Relations and partners closely with HR Business Partners, HR Operations, Payroll, Legal, Retail Operations, Occupational Health providers and local vendors. The role provides expert guidance and governance across complex and sensitive ER matters, while supporting managers and HRBPs with scalable guidance, tools and processes.

In addition, this role will lead the EMEA governance framework for sickness / Leave of Absence processes. This includes designing and maintaining the RACI, country process flows, escalation criteria, manager guidance, dashboards and governance routines across EMEA countries. The role does not own all day-to-day sickness administration, but ensures that the process is clearly structured, legally sound and consistently managed across Retail and Corporate.

The Netherlands sickness process will be operationally outsourced due to the heavier employer obligations in the Dutch market. However, UA will retain internal governance through the Senior Lead, Teammate Relations EMEA, HR Operations, Legal and the Head of HR EMEA.

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Your Impact

This role leads Employee Relations (ER), investigations, and sickness/leave governance across EMEA Retail and Corporate, ensuring a consistent, fair, legally compliant, and scalable approach to people-related matters.

Key Responsibilities

Employee Relations & Investigations

• Lead complex ER cases, investigations, teammate complaints, conduct matters, and workplace concerns.
• Advise leaders, managers, and HRBPs on ER best practices, policy application, employment law considerations, and risk mitigation.
• Support performance management, corrective actions, conflict resolution, and sensitive employee issues.
• Conduct investigations, prepare findings and recommendations, and identify root causes and preventative solutions.
• Ensure consistent policy interpretation, case documentation, and governance across EMEA.

Sickness & Leave of Absence Governance

• Own the EMEA sickness and leave governance framework across Retail and Corporate.
• Define processes, responsibilities, escalation paths, and manager guidance in partnership with HR Operations, Payroll, Legal, Occupational Health, and external vendors.
• Support high-risk absence cases involving long-term sickness, disability, mental health, workplace conflict, or legal risk.
• Monitor absence trends and provide insights to improve consistency, compliance, and manager capability.

Governance, Data & Process Excellence

• Build and maintain ER and absence dashboards, reporting, and risk metrics.
• Develop ER playbooks, manager guidance, training materials, and scalable processes.
• Use data and trends to identify risks, improve employee experience, and strengthen people management capability.
• Partner closely with HRBPs, HR Operations, Legal, and business leaders to create a consistent EMEA ER model.

Scope

• Supports both Retail and Corporate employee populations across EMEA.
• Provides specialist guidance, governance, and escalation support while enabling managers and HRBPs to effectively manage day-to-day people matters.
• Focuses on reducing risk, improving consistency, and strengthening leadership capability across the region.

Qualifications

• Strong employee relations expertise, including investigations, complaints management, corrective action, conflict resolution and sensitive workplace matters.
• Strong understanding of EMEA employment law principles, with the ability to identify when Legal involvement is required.
• Experience with sickness, Leave of Absence, occupational health or absence governance across multiple countries is strongly preferred.
• Ability to design governance frameworks, RACIs, process flows, escalation models and manager guidance.
• Strong judgment, discretion and confidentiality in handling sensitive and high-risk matters.
• Ability to remain neutral, balanced and fact-based in emotionally charged or complex situations.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with senior leaders, HRBPs, managers, Legal, HR Operations, Payroll and vendors.
• Ability to coach managers and HRBPs without becoming the owner of all routine people matters.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to translate ER and sickness data into business insights and risk mitigation actions.
• Strong written communication skills, including investigation summaries, guidance documents, templates and executive updates.
• Strong process discipline and follow-through.
• Ability to operate in a matrixed, multi-country environment.
• Retail experience is strongly preferred.
• English fluency required; additional European language capability preferred.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Typically 8–10+ years of relevant HR experience.
• Significant experience in Employee Relations, HRBP, employment-law-adjacent HR work or investigations.
• Experience supporting multi-country EMEA populations preferred.
• Experience in Retail and Corporate environments preferred.
• Direct teammate-facing experience required.
• Experience working with HR Operations, Payroll, Legal and external vendors preferred.
• Experience building scalable HR / ER processes, playbooks or governance models preferred.

Workplace Location

• Location: This individual must reside within commuting distance from our Amsterdam, The Netherlandsoffice.
• Work Schedule: This role follows a hybrid work schedule, requiring 4 days in-office per week.

UA does not offer sponsorship of job applicants for employment-based work authorization for this position at this time.

Relocation

• No relocation provided

Base Compensation

Most new hires fall within this range and have the opportunity to earn more over time. Initial placement within the salary range, however, is based on an individual's relevant knowledge, skills and experience for the position. UA is committed to helping our teammates succeed and advance in their careers. Base salary is only one component of our competitive Total Rewards package.

• Paid “UA Give Back” Volunteer Days: Work alongside your team to support initiatives in your local community.
• Health & fitness benefits, discounts and resources- We offer teammates across the country programs to promote physical activity and overall well-being.
• 28 days holiday
• Teammate Resource groups e.g. Green Machine, Sustainability, LGBTQIA+, Women in Leading and Living, Balance for mental health and wellbeing etc.
• Human Performance Institute (Gym) on site

Our Commitment to Equal Opportunity

At Under Armour, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, family or paternal status and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Under Armour seeks to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people representing a wide variety of backgrounds and perspectives. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact our Human Resources team via [e-mail].