Manager, Employee Relations

Overview

Source One is a consulting services company and we’re currently looking for the following individual to work as a remote consultant to our direct client, a global pharmaceutical company in Basking Ridge, NJ.

Job Title:

Manager, Employee Relations (Contractor)

Pay Rate: $47/hr (W-2)

Schedule:

37.5 hours/week, Mon-Fri, 100% remote for duration of assignment

This role has responsibility for managing employee relations cases with business stakeholders with guidance and oversight, which includes but is not limited to intake, interviews, documentation review, coaching and closeouts. Accountable for end-to-end processing of employee relations concerns including creating issues summaries, pre-investigation plans, writing investigation reports and maintaining ER case files for reporting purposes.

• Employee relations and investigations: uses business acumen, policy interpretation and risk mitigation to conduct effective investigations and coach/counsel employees and management with guidance and oversight.
• Manages the exit interview process and metrics, which includes conducting exit interviews, reviewing exit trends and synthesizing data on a quarterly basis.
• Project management as assigned for employee relations initiatives, policy administration and HR compliance and regulatory reporting/FDA readiness.
• Effectively triages potential issues compliance/legal to ensure appropriate approach is taken.
• With oversight, conducts investigations in response to employee or management complaints of inappropriate conduct/behavior or matters concerning performance and recommends disciplinary actions in accordance with company policy.
• Works directly with business stakeholder using HRBP as information intake as necessary managing performance improvement plans in accordance with company policies.
• Elevates issues to the employee relations head for possible program changes and learning and development opportunities.
• Supports employees throughout the issues escalation process and tracks the incident to ensure proper issue closure.
• Provides coaching to managers and employees on preventing or resolving employee relations issues based on guidance and direction from ER head.
• Properly documents all employee relations data and documents.
• Ability to project manage ER initiatives or implementation of HR best practices and training.
• Assist as needed with policy administration, HR compliance, and regulatory reporting and FDA readiness and ADA accommodation requests.

• Pharmaceutical industry experience
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of employee and manager needs
• Ability to exercise sound judgment and make connections between HR processes/policies and the businesses we serve and in a highly regulated pharmaceutical environment
• Strong written communication and verbal communication skills, ability to translate processes into training and other presentation/policy/program documents
• Ability to work effectively with management and all levels of HR partners
• Ability to ensure a high level of discretion and confidentiality
• Ability to complete multiple duties with accuracy shifting from one to another with frequent interruptions and competing deadlines
• Familiarity with Affirmative Action Program development

• Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Behavioral Sciences, Humanities or Liberal Arts is required