Employee Relations Manager

• Develop and implement the country Employee Relations (ER) strategy by following global objectives, local business needs, and compliance with Group policies and local laws.
• Identify, evaluate, and mitigate employee-related risks, translate local legislation into practical strategies, and ensure compliance through collaboration with legal and compliance teams.
• Provide guidance to People Leaders on complex ER issues, including restructuring, redundancy, and disciplinary or grievance cases, while promoting a performance-driven culture.
• Train HR and leaders on ER processes and legal changes and provide insights into employee engagement levels to support decision-making by regional and country leadership teams.
• Liaise closely with Employment Legal and proactively update HRBPs and People Leaders on recent employment law legislative changes and developments or new internal standards or approaches.
• Identify, assess, and monitor country ER process risks in line with overall operational risk management framework.
• Collaborate with Employment HR Legal and Compliance and/or external legal counsel for advice and decision on interpretation of local laws and regulations and ER policies, procedures, cases in-country.

• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and relationship-building abilities; market awareness; adaptability; commitment to ethics and exemplary conduct.
• Experience as an ER Specialist / Manager or Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP), with generalist HR skills and knowledge of local legislative and regulatory landscapes.
• Expertise in change management, HR legal and regulatory environments, employee relations, consulting, and confidential investigations.
• Experience in banking or financial institutions, commercial acumen, and strong collaboration skills.
• Motivated, team-oriented, thrives in an international environment, and is effective at identifying and mitigating risks.
• Fluent English and Polish language, German will be an asset.

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity, sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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