Director, Compliance and Employee Relations

Role Summary

The Director Compliance and Employee Relations is a senior HR leader responsible for establishing governing and executing the company's global employee relations workplace investigations employment compliance and Health & Safety strategy. This role ensures consistent legally compliant and fair people practices across geographies while enabling the business to manage risk uphold company values and maintain a safe respectful and compliant work environment.

This position serves as a strategic partner to HR leadership Legal Facilities Benefits and senior executives balancing strong governance and risk mitigation with pragmatic businessaligned solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Employee Relations & Investigations

Lead the global employee relations strategy ensuring fair consistent and legally compliant handling of employee concerns disciplinary matters and performancerelated actions
• Oversee and as needed directly conduct complex and highrisk investigations (e.g. discrimination harassment retaliation ethics violations executivelevel cases)
• Establish investigation standards protocols documentation requirements and governance in close partnership with Legal
• Provide expert guidance to HR Advisors/HRBPs and leaders on performance management corrective action terminations and conflict resolution
• Identify trends and root causes across ER cases and implement preventative actions to reduce recurring risk

Employment & HR Compliance

• Own the global HR compliance strategy including adherence to employment laws regulations and internal policies across all countries of operation
• Partner with Legal and regional HR teams to interpret employment law requirements and translate them into scalable policies procedures and controls
• Ensure policies are current consistently applied and aligned with legal regulatory and business requirements
• Lead audits compliance reviews and responses to internal or external findings related to HR practices
• Maintain compliance oversight for record retention employee data handling labor relations/works councils (where applicable) and mandated training

Health & Safety Governance

• Own enterprise Health & Safety governance ensuring compliance with applicable occupational health and safety laws and regulations across geographies
• Establish clear ownership policy frameworks and escalation paths for workplace safety incidents and employee healthrelated risks
• Partner closely with Facilities Benefits and HR Advisors/HRBPs to ensure Health & Safety practices are embedded into daily operations and employee support models
• Oversee investigation and response to workplace safety incidents coordinating corrective actions and regulatory reporting as required
• Collaborate with Benefits partners on healthrelated programs (e.g. medical accommodations disability coordination wellbeing initiatives) to ensure alignment with compliance and safety requirements
• Monitor trends and risks related to employee safety health and workplace conditions to proactively strengthen controls and prevention efforts

Policy & Governance

• Design and maintain a cohesive global HR Employee Relations and Health & Safety policy framework with clear ownership approval processes and exception management
• Ensure alignment between policy practice and system configuration (e.g. HRIS workflows case management tools incident reporting processes)
• Define decision rights and escalation paths for ER compliance and Health & Safety matters
• Contribute to enterprise risk management activities related to people practices workplace safety and organizational culture

Partnership & Advisory

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior HR leaders executives and people leaders on sensitive employee relations compliance and safetyrelated matters
• Partner closely with Legal to manage exposure mitigate litigation and regulatory risk and support claims or disputes when they arise
• Collaborate with HR Operations Total Rewards HR Systems Facilities Benefits and Data & Analytics teams to ensure compliance and safety requirements are embedded into processes and systems
• Support reorganizations change initiatives and M&A activity from an employee relations compliance and Health & Safety perspective

Leadership & Capability Building

• Lead mentor and develop a team of employee relations compliance and/or Health & Safety professionals (as applicable)
• Build ER compliance and safety capability across HR Advisors/HRBPs and leaders through training playbooks and decision frameworks
• Promote a culture of fairness accountability safety and respect across the organization

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree or JD strongly preferred
• 10+ years of progressive HR leadership experience with deep expertise in employee relations employment compliance and workplace Health & Safety
• Experience operating in a global or multicountry environment
• Proven expertise managing complex investigations regulatory requirements and sensitive employee matters
• Strong partnership experience with Legal Facilities Benefits and executive leadership
• Demonstrated ability to balance risk management with practical businessoriented solutions

Key Competencies

• Employment law and regulatory acumen
• Investigation and factfinding expertise
• Health & Safety governance and incident management
• Executive judgment and influence
• Clear credible communication in highrisk situations
• Integrity discretion and sound decisionmaking
• Ability to operate both strategically and handson