Senior Director, People Relations and Workplace Practices

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ROLE SUMMARY:

The Senior Director People Relations and Workplace Practices is a strategic global leader responsible for designing and directing governance risk management/assessment and business-facing analytics/insights for Baxters global people relations and workplace practices function. This role serves as the organizations foremost subject matter expert in people relations operations and analytics and workforce risk management ensuring consistent fair compliant and scalable practices across all regions (United States/Canada Latin America Europe/Africa/Middle East and Asia-Pacific).

Working in close partnership with other HR COEs HR business partners legal and compliance HR operations and people analytics the Senior Director People Relations and Workplace Practices develops enterprise-wide frameworks workflows and governance models that enable efficient and defensible management of investigations accommodations leaves restructures performance management employee discipline and other compliance-related processes. The role also works with Baxters people analytics and IT functions to effectuate the transformation of people relations through AI automation and advanced case management technologies creating intelligent tools that improve decision quality streamline operations and enhance the employee and manager experience.

In addition the Senior Director provides strategic leadership in workforce risk identification predictive analytics auditing and organizational insight generation. By leveraging data technology and deep expertise in workplace practices this leader identifies emerging risks uncovers systemic issues and delivers actionable recommendations that strengthen organizational effectiveness inform policy and process improvements and support business and HR leaders in making sound equitable and compliant workforce decisions worldwide.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and maintain dashboards analytics and reporting tools to track investigation outcomes case trends workplace compliance activity and key people relations metrics.

• Provide real-time workforce risk and compliance insights to HR and business leaders enabling timely decision-making and issue resolution.

• Identify and monitor employee relations labor and compliance risk hotspots across geographies business units managers and workforce segments.

• Analyze case data to detect repeat offenders emerging trends systemic issues and root causes of workplace concerns.

• Design implement and continuously enhance predictive models to assess people relations risk compliance exposure workplace issues and attrition drivers.

• Deliver actionable insights and recommendations to HR leadership regarding policy enhancements operational improvements intervention strategies investigation practices and compliance program effectiveness.

• Conduct audits and assessments of HR processes including wage and hour compliance contingent labor classification leave administration accommodations background checks and other regulatory requirements.

• Design document and optimize end-to-end workflows for investigations accommodations leave programs I-9 compliance background screening drug testing performance management employee discipline restructures and workforce reductions.

• Lead the development and administration of AI-enabled solutions including case intake and triage automated documentation decision-support tools and self-service policy resources.

• Function as the global process owner regarding the use of HR compliance-related technologies including EthicsPoint ServiceNow Workday and related platforms.

• Lead the implementation of a new people relations management system designed to provide manager self-service capability streamlined people relations processes and improved management of people relations matters.

• Establish and enforce governance standards case management protocols quality assurance processes and policy change controls to ensure consistency fairness compliance and legal defensibility.

• Maintain and enhance a centralized knowledge management platform containing HR policies guidance decision frameworks and AI-enabled knowledge retrieval capabilities.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance scalability efficiency automation data integrity and global process consistency across People Relations and Workplace Practices programs

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors Degree

• Minimum 15 years of HR experience that includes at least 5 years of experience in people relations/employee relations/workplace practices/HR compliance

• Demonstrated prior experience working with and safeguarding confidential and sensitive information

• Strong leadership and influence skills and the ability to drive change

• Demonstrated prior experience handling people/employee relations or HR compliance issues in at least one of the following global regions: Latin America Europe/Africa/Middle East or Asia-Pacific

• Demonstrated ability to build effective working relationships with management team and to coach and influence decision making of senior leaders

• Good business acumen and judgment

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 7 years of experience in people relations/employee relations/workplace practices/HR compliance

• Demonstrated prior experience handling people/employee relations or HR compliance issues in each of the following global regions: Latin America Europe/Africa/Middle East and Asia-Pacific

• Prior experience working in medtech medical device or another highly regulated industry

• Prior experience working for a federal contractor and exposure to AAPs and OFCCP compliance

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