Senior Specialist, Employee Relations – EMEA

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential global HR technology organization seeking a Senior Specialist, Employee Relations for their EMEA operations. This role supports the delivery of compliant, high-quality HR services across multiple international jurisdictions, with a primary focus on managing employee exits and providing first-level employee relations guidance.

The position is fully remote and open to candidates based in Portugal, Poland, France, or the Czech Republic. You'll work as part of a globally distributed team operating asynchronously across time zones.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Manage end-to-end employee offboarding processes across multiple EMEA jurisdictions, ensuring legal compliance and excellent customer service
• Provide expert guidance on termination, resignation, transfer procedures, employment contracts, and redundancy processes
• Lead and facilitate sensitive meetings including workforce reduction consultations, administrative hearings, and termination discussions
• Navigate complex terminations involving multiple stakeholders with competing interests, negotiating positive outcomes
• Coordinate with internal teams (payroll, legal, benefits) and external parties (government bodies, trade unions, legal counsel) to ensure compliant offboarding
• Draft and administer termination documentation with strict attention to detail, privacy, and confidentiality requirements
• Process offboarding activities in HR systems, collaborating across customer success, legal, payroll, and benefits teams
• Conduct preliminary assessment of workplace concerns and employee relations matters
• Guide clients through progressive disciplinary approaches and documentation requirements
• Monitor ongoing employee relations cases and coordinate appropriate resources
• Identify and implement process improvements, automation opportunities, and enhanced customer experiences

What We're Looking For

Essential qualifications and experience:

• Proven experience as an HR Advisor or HR Business Partner with generalist HR competencies across the employee lifecycle
• Strong background managing both voluntary and involuntary employee exits with sensitivity and legal compliance
• Demonstrated ability to provide HR guidance on employment laws and regulations across various jurisdictions
• Capability to interpret industrial instruments, analyze complex HR issues, and provide practical solutions in ambiguous environments
• Basic understanding of employee relations principles, progressive discipline, and workplace investigation fundamentals
• Excellent communication, influencing, conflict management, and negotiation skills
• Ability to confidently lead difficult conversations while maintaining professionalism and strict confidentiality
• Business-level (advanced) proficiency in written and spoken English; additional European languages are a plus
• Strong aptitude for process optimization, automation, and championing best practices
• Efficiency in operations with attention to thorough record-keeping and data integrity
• Tech-savvy with ability to collaborate asynchronously using various digital tools
• Demonstrated AI fluency and strong automation capabilities
• Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced, asynchronous, remote environment with multiple priorities
• Willingness to work flexible hours as needed across EMEA time zones
• Proactive, self-motivated approach with strong ownership and accountability

How We Work With You

As Get A Job.ai, we facilitate the complete recruitment process on behalf of our client:

• You apply directly through the Get A Job.ai platform
• Our talent team conducts an initial screening to understand your experience and career goals
• We present qualified candidates to our client for consideration
• The client's interview process includes multiple stages: recruiter interview, take-home exercise, hiring manager interview, team interview, senior manager interview, and final assessment
• We coordinate all scheduling and feedback throughout the process
• Please do not contact the client directly; all communication should flow through Get A Job.ai

Pay

Our client offers competitive compensation with geo-differentiated salary bands reflecting their global operations. Pay specifics will be discussed during the screening process and will depend on your location within the eligible EMEA countries and relevant experience.

Equal Opportunity

Get A Job.ai is committed to equal employment opportunity. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences.