The Senior Employee Relations (ER) Manager ensures Amazons readiness considering the forthcoming EU regulations and looks after trade unions management employee engagement and organizational transformation across EU. This role is part of the Employee Experience and Relations (EXR) team reporting directly to the EU EXR Risk Project & Compliance leader. The role requires close collaboration with various stakeholders at country Business lines (BL) pan-EU and global level (notably the Global Labor Relations Team). By doing so this role enhances Amazons compliance drives positive employee engagement on essential priorities and increases Amazons agility to manage ambiguous and complex situations.
This role can be performed from the following countries: France Italy Spain Germany Luxembourg UK. There will be travel required up to 30% of the time mostly within the EU.
Key job responsibilities
EU REGULATORY COMPLIANCE AND COORDINATION: Coordinate the EXR effort related to forthcoming EU regulation including:
- Working with Public Policy to identify approved and emerging regulations;
- Conducting impact analysis at pan-EU level and support gap analysis across EU countries;
- Coordinating the preparation required at country level;
- Being accountable for the EXR working backward plan of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).
THIRD-PARTY STRATEGY MANAGEMENT: Lead the pan-EU strategy for third-party activities at EU federation level:
- Maintain up-to-date information and external insights about relevant developments and trends;
- Develop engagement strategies in collaboration with Public Policy and Public Relation;
- Provide reactive and proactive recommendations for third-party management notably in case of significant development (UK reform).
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT AND PROUDNESS CAMPAIGNS
- Design and deliver training actions to enhance ER capacities within the HR and Senior leaders functions.
- Collaborate with Public Relations and Internal Operations Communications to design and develop campaigns that enhance employee pride on Amazon. Lead test & learn initiatives creative thinking and action to improve employee sentiment.
LABOR RELATIONS FRAMEWORK DEVELOPMENT
- Develop the LR framework for major transformation cycles (e.g. site lifecycle milestones) to increase pan-EU standardization lower costs and reduce time to deliver while enhancing stakeholders and Associate satisfaction.
- Bachelors degree in Employment Law Industrial Relations or a related field
- Experience in Employees and Labor Relations management with a focus on pan-EU coverage Experience in managing complex stakeholder relationships in matrix environment including third-party engagement at EU federation level
- Fluency in both written and spoken English (Common European Framework of Reference C2) and at least one other European language including but not limited to French Spanish Italian German.
- Masters degree in a related field
- Analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate complex ELR concepts into actionable strategies
- Communication and influencing skills with the ability to engage effectively at all levels of the organization and persevere over internal and external barriers to drive resolutions.
- Rapidly produces high-quality written communications that concisely analyze problems and move solutions from concept to execution.
- Capable of working independently in fast paced ambiguous environments.
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