Minimum qualifications:
- Experience with market and regulatory environments in multiple EMEA countries and EWC legislation.
- Experience managing and leading a team.
- Experience managing a European Works Council and other employee bodies, from setting up, through implementation.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience managing ambiguity and analyzing metrics to find root causes, identity opportunities and adjust strategy accordingly.
- Experience managing other leaders and separate contributors.
- Ability to work cross-functionally and collaboratively across teams and act as a trusted advisor to all levels of management.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex messages clearly to a wide audience and interact with leaders to present/defend/clarify issues regarding an existing challenge.
- Excellent organizational skills, with the ability to manage engaging, high-priority demands.
About the job
People Operations strives to revolutionize human resources the same way that Google has revolutionized search. We are helping to find, grow and keep the remarkable assemblage of talent who are our Googlers. You'll be an advocate of Google's culture and values, partnering with our business leaders to help them build their organizations and make sure all people decisions are based on data. Whether coaching our clients on how to lead their teams, navigating and resolving employee relations issues or managing programs that help develop our Googlers, you are exceptionally focused on putting them first, and being as clear and transparent as possible to help Googlers understand how people decisions get made.
In this role, you will be responsible for managing relationships with works councils and other employee representatives to ensure Google meets its information and consultation obligations and providing advice to stakeholders with respect to navigating other labor relations requirements or managing complex issues. You will lead a team of Labor Relations Managers across the region to comply with our legal requirements, address complex issues and minimize related risks. You will develop labor relations strategies and build constructive relationships with employee representative bodies. You will also influence and partner with the wider business to understand planned organizational changes and develop a plan to coordinate and complete applicable information and consultation processes.Great just isn't good enough for our People Operations team (known elsewhere as "Human Resources"). We bring the world's most innovative people to Google and provide the programs that help them thrive. Whether recruiting the next Googler, refining our core programs, developing talent, or simply looking for ways to inject some more fun into the lives of our Googlers, we bring a data-driven approach that is reinventing the human resources field. You’ll play an essential role advancing a more diverse, accessible, equitable, and inclusive Google through our hiring, promotion, retention, and inclusion practices.
In this role, you will be responsible for managing relationships with works councils and other employee representatives to ensure Google meets its information and consultation obligations and providing advice to stakeholders with respect to navigating other labor relations requirements or managing complex issues. You will lead a team of Labor Relations Managers across the region to comply with our legal requirements, address complex issues and minimize related risks. You will develop labor relations strategies and build constructive relationships with employee representative bodies. You will also influence and partner with the wider business to understand planned organizational changes and develop a plan to coordinate and complete applicable information and consultation processes.Responsibilities
- Provide leadership to mitigate risk and build constructive labor relations with works councils and employee representative bodies across the region.
- Oversee the relationship with a newly established European Works Council (EWC).
- Lead a team of country-based labor relations managers to ensure a consistent approach and delivery of objectives. Be a trusted and expert advisor to HR and management on complex labor relation issues.
- Monitor and analyze internal and external trends, regulatory changes and provide strategic and tactical guidance for HR and leaders. Anticipate, assess, and manage risk by identifying or developing strategies to mitigate risk.
- Partner with and influence Business HR, policy owners and others to implement business-specific or corporate-wide initiatives, programs, and policies through efficient information and consultation processes.
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