Employee Relations Manager, Employee Experience & Relations UK&IE id-14104

Description

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. The Employee Relations Manager position requires an individual who has significant employee relations experience, deep subject matter expertise, and strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills. These competencies will enable the individual to work both independently to successfully manage a broad spectrum of ER issues and with employees and partners across Amazon’s wide geographic and cultural scope.

The central objectives of the Employee Relations Manager role in the UK&IE Field Employee Relations team are:

The position reports to the Head of Employee Experience and Relations UK and Ireland, within the Employee Experience and Relations team at Amazon. This is a full-time position that will require some travel, up to 30% of the time over the course of the year mainly in the UK and Ireland but occasionally in Europe. Due to the nature of the travel, the base location is flexible in UK.

Key job responsibilities

  • Conduct and oversee employee relations and vulnerability assessment programs
  • Analyze, diagnose, design, and revise people programs, policies, and practices to sustain positive employee relations
  • Define, Develop the existing arrangements for collective consultation and communication as required for the ongoing evolution of the business, in compliance with UK Employment Law and Amazon ER policies
  • Acts with sense of urgency, a bias for action, and with a desire to thrive in a dynamically growing environment.
  • Conduct reviews of employment policies to ensure they are aligned to Amazon’s objectives and compliant with employment law.
  • Take ownership, play a supporting role in significant ER projects
  • Participate in national and international projects.

Basic Qualifications

  • Experience in employee relations, functional human resources or labor/employment law
  • Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree, law degree, or other specialized training in employee relations a significant plus.
  • Experience and solid understanding of UK employment and labor laws
  • Experienced with Microsoft Office Suite systems including, but not limited to, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Preferred Qualifications

  • Strong interpersonal and persuasion skills, enabling individual to establish partnerships and work collaboratively across management levels and personalities to influence senior leadership, stakeholders, peers and employees at all levels across a large, dispersed and culturally diverse organization.
  • Proven problem solving and analytical skills in an ambiguous environment with the capacity to work autonomously to manage competing priorities simultaneously while driving projects to closure.
  • Demonstrated ability to successfully navigate complex, international organizational structures.

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