Employee Relations Manager

CME Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.; New York (NY); Presencial; USD 114.000 - 190.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

CME Group is seeking an Employee Relations Manager to support programs shaping our culture and employee experience. You will coach managers, handle investigations, and advise HR leadership with a focus on risk-balanced employee advocacy.

You will serve as the NY office HR contact, steer offboarding, and manage unemployment claims while advancing policy alignment across the organization. This is a strategic role in a global markets company.

Formación

• 5–7 years of related experience in a professional HR function.
• Strong knowledge of performance management coaching and investigations.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to interact effectively with management and employees at all levels.
• Experience with Google proficiency and Workday or other HRMS.
• Bachelor's Degree in a related field.
• Preferred: PHR or SPHR certification.
• Experience as HR Generalist or site lead.

Responsabilidades

• Empower and coach managers to build high-performing, accountable teams through proactive performance management, collaborative improvement planning, and consistent application of CME Group’s policies and philosophies across the company.
• As needed, work with management to create performance improvement plans.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to HR colleagues and leadership, providing proactive guidance on employment-related matters, balancing organizational risk management with employee advocacy.
• Manage and resolve complex employee relations matters and investigations with objectivity and empathy, ensuring policy alignment while fostering an open and inclusive workplace.
• Serve as the primary HR contact and point person for the New York office, providing guidance, support, and site lead representation for local employees and leadership.
• Handle offboarding activities for departing employees, ensuring a thorough and consistent process.
• Manage the company’s unemployment insurance claims.

Conocimientos

Performance management coaching

Investigations

Communication skills

HRMS familiarity

Site lead experience

Policy application

Educación

Bachelor's Degree in a related field

Herramientas

Workday

Google proficiency

HRMS systems

Descripción del empleo

The Employee Relations Manager supports a number of programs and processes that help reinforce and maintain CME Group’s strong corporate culture and employee experience through extensive interactions with employees, managers, and HR colleagues. In this role, the ER Manager conducts reviews and investigates matters when warranted, whether issues are raised by employees, management, or other channels. Leveraging precedent, judgment, and key resources, such as in house Legal counsel and CME Group's investigation guidelines, the ER Manager facilitates resolution and serves as a trusted employee relations resource and advisor for employees, managers, and Human Resources professionals.

What You'll Get

A supportive environment fostering career progression, continuous learning, and an inclusive culture. Direct advisory influence with senior leadership and cross-functional teams across global financial markets. A competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Explore our full range of benefits.

What You'll Do

• Empower and coach managers to build high-performing, accountable teams through proactive performance management, collaborative improvement planning, and consistent application of CME Group’s policies and philosophies across the company.
• As needed, work with management to create performance improvement plans.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to HR colleagues and leadership, providing proactive guidance on employment-related matters, balancing organizational risk management with employee advocacy.
• Manage and resolve complex employee relations matters and investigations with objectivity and empathy, ensuring policy alignment while fostering an open and inclusive workplace.
• Serve as the primary HR contact and point person for the New York office, providing guidance, support, and site lead representation for local employees and leadership.
• Handle offboarding activities for departing employees, ensuring a thorough and consistent process.
• Manage the company’s unemployment insurance claims.

What You'll Need

• Minimum of 5-7 years of related experience in a professional HR function.
• Strong knowledge of and experience with performance management coaching, employment-related investigations and the ability to practically apply general HR knowledge and skills.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to effectively interact with management and employees at all levels of the organization.
• Google proficiency and exposure to Workday or other HRMS.
• Bachelor's Degree in a related field.
• Preferred: PHR or SPHR certification.
• Experience working as a Human Resources Generalist or site lead.

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CME Group is committed to offering a competitive total rewards package for our employees that recognizes their contributions to the business and reflects our long-term investment in their future.

The pay range for this role is $113,800-$189,600.

Actual salary offered will be dependent on a wide array of factors including but not limited to: relevant experience, skills, education and comparison to internal employees (where relevant).

Our compensation program also includes an annual target bonus opportunity for all employees, as well as the opportunity to become an owner in the company through our broad-based equity program.

Through our benefits program, we strive to offer flexibility, value and choice. From comprehensive health coverage, to a retirement package that includes both a 401(k) and an active pension plan, to highly competitive education reimbursement provisions, paid time off and a mental health benefit, CME Group offers a holistic benefits package for our team and their dependents.

CME Group: Where Futures are Made

CME Group is the world’s leading derivatives marketplace. But who we are goes deeper than that. Here, you can impact markets worldwide. Transform industries. And build a career by shaping tomorrow. We invest in your success and you own it – all while working alongside a team of leading experts who inspire you in ways big and small. Problem solvers, difference makers, trailblazers. Those are our people. And we’re looking for more. At CME Group, we embrace our employees' unique experiences and skills to ensure that everyone’s perspectives are acknowledged and valued.

As an equal-opportunity employer, we consider all potential employees without regard to any protected characteristic.

As the world’s leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group is where the world comes to manage risk. We enable clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities.

CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes foreign exchange energy agricultural products and metals.

We meet uncertainty and volatility with confidence and clarity, across the trading lifecycle and around the world.

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