At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.
A Day in the Life
Medtronic is hiring an Employee and Labor Relations Partner responsible for partnering with country leaders and HRBPs in building strong relationships between employees, leaders, and employee representatives/Unions, where applicable, at country level. You will take a proactive approach to employee and labor relations by identifying higher-level employee trends, recommending solutions that address the root cause of issues, and partnering with leadership on execution.
In this role, you will act as a key partner to leaders in driving employee relations strategies while maintaining a neutral position and labor relations strategies and administration.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
Lead project management and process for reductions in force to include consulting with Managers, HR Business Partners, Legal, Finance, and Security.
Develop materials and resources to support process, ensuring an equitable and consistent selection process.
Manage severance analysis, adverse impact analysis, legal review, works councils/employee representatives and/or union consultation and documentation, wherever applicable, training, scheduling, notifications, communications, and transition plans.
Proactively reduce Employee and Labor Relations related risk through risk assessments and actionable feedback. Conduct training and coaching of managers/leaders on skills and techniques.
Develop effective relationships with the business to promote good employee and labor relations across the organization.
Deploy labor relations activities locally with HR Business Partner and Senior Business leaders. Coordinate and connect with applicable councils, as needed (e.g., works councils, unions, health and safety councils, etc.).
Coordinate and conduct meetings with WC/Employee representatives, Unions, wherever applicable, in close collaboration with local stakeholders.
Assess and advise HR and Leaders on ensuring and implementing correct and appropriate consultation/information/negotiation processes that mitigate risks, costs, and maintain corporate image in close collaboration with HR and leaders.
Required Knowledge and Experience
Bachelor's Degree
7-10 years of HR experience within big, corporate companies with a matrix organization
Fluency in English and French
Experience in the Swiss Legal Framework
Experience providing strategic partnership with leaders by leveraging data/metrics to identify trends and proactively address
Experience in employee and labor relations
Demonstrated knowledge of employment law
Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Office (MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, etc.)
Experience in project management, program/process design, as well as a process improvement skill set.
Ability to provide strategic, proactive partnership to leaders
Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal awareness
Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
About Medtronic
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
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