People Relations Partner
Company: Disability Solutions
Location: Indianapolis
Posted on: May 3, 2024
Job Description:
Roche fosters diversity, equity and inclusion, representing the
communities we serve. When dealing with healthcare on a global
scale, diversity is an essential ingredient to success. We believe
that inclusion is key to understanding people's varied healthcare
needs. Together, we embrace individuality and share a passion for
exceptional care. Join Roche, where every voice matters.The
PositionOur People Relations Community is working in a rapidly
changing environment and understands the impact of external and
internal factors affecting our people and our Business. Leveraging
the OneRoche philosophy and the power of our Global people
ecosystem, our PR community succeeds through collaboration and
trustful partnerships across Chapters, Geographies and Client
groups. We operate with a common mindset and shared values and work
together as a Global Community to support one another, working with
autonomy but fosteringgood working relationships, collaboration,
leveraging our combined experience and empowering and developing
others.The People Relations Partner must have deep domain
experience in the area of employee relations and/or labor
relations. Our PR Partners and PR Advisors create value through
trusted partnership, by finding solutions that consider the
experience of our employees and the interests of Roche. They are
key contributors to positive employee experience in moments that
matter and provide proactive solutions to enable our people to
focus on our core purpose (unlock greatness). They coach and train
leaders for proactive early interventions. They operate on a
balanced, neutral perspective to support successful navigation
through challenging moments which is contributing to the positive
reputation of Roche. Through our network approach we manage local
specifics and complexity byleveraging geographical proximity and
cross-divisional capabilities. To ensure that we operate on a
common foundation our networks navigate within three regions (APAC,
EMEA, AMERICAS) to enable global alignment on our PR strategy and a
OneRoche mindset.The PR Partner balances value creation and value
protection activities, harnessing our license to operate
responsibilities through our Creative Leadership mindset and ways
of working. The PR Partner will be strategically focused and work
in collaboration with P&C and business squads to cultivate
cooperation based on mutual trust with a balanced, neutral
perspective to support successful navigation through challenging
moments which is contributing to the positive reputation of Roche.
They contribute through a global lens and ensure a fair and
consistent approach to all people practices and ways of working.
The PR Partner quickly adapts and deals with emergent issues where
needed as well as identifies long term opportunities to enhance the
employee experience and positively impact moments that
matter.STEWARDSHIP
- Maintains focus on enabling true partnership and by encouraging
our people to approach and consider employment matters with a
creative mindset lens (propose moving this sentence here an
modified beginning)
- Sparring partner and coach for fostering VACC leadership and a
leadership culture in line with the Roche leadership frame
- Works with the AOP BP, IWS Partner and the business to create,
advise, support and implement strategy for change management
approach/reorganisations/workforce planning including creation and
participation of squads
- Drives change with proven ability to influence business leaders
and P&C professionals to required outcomesSTRATEGIC PR
ACTIVITIES
- Act as investigator or as a point of escalation for complex
complaints including but not limited to thoseinvolving allegations
of discrimination, harassment, hostile work environment,
retaliation, and other potential
- violations of company policy and labor/employment law and serve
as a point of handoff/escalation from internal partners (such as
Business Partners, business leaders, IWS partners, Legal, Data
Privacy, SHE etc)
- Surfaces root causes and broader trends through the use of data
in order to ensure business leaders are best positioned to address
any pervasive concerns and advise on how to prevent complaints
through fair and consistent performance management
- Provides thought leadership to business leaders on restructures
and reorganization and engaging internal and external partners and
stakeholders to drive initiatives to conclusion
- Advises P&C Community on local requirements for key
initiatives that are being considered
- Advises on performance management issues that are complex,
contentious and are determined to carry potential levels of legal
risk that are low and of medium tolerance
- Consults and supports reorganization/transformations and
strategic workforce planning
- Creates, advises, supports and implements strategy for change
management approach/ reorganizations/ workforce planning
- Maintains a global mindset, works within regions and acts as a
SME of legal and cultural requirements
- Ensures that works agreements and other collective regulations
(if applicable) correspond to the legal, possibly collectively
agreed and cross-company specifications as well as the company
policy objectives,
- are structured in terms of content and form according to
standardized criteria and are adapted if necessary
- Responsible for the design of works constitution
regulations
- Manages projects related to the PR key areas of
responsibilities (e.g. restructurings, negotiations with employee
representations, conflict prevention) resulting from
global/regional/local business needs
- Participates in cross-organizational reviews of broad-based
P&C programs
- Engages in the establishment of new and/or refinement of
existing P&C policies, practices and standards that foster and
allow Roche to successfully implement and maintain new ways of
working
- Provides coaching, identify training and development for the PR
AoP in order to promote skill development
- local and regional awareness and capacity to work across
regions
- Actively self nominates in terms of PR Skill Tags and consults
with Network and Enabling Coaches in order to acquire additional
ones; participate and/or lead squads as needed
- Effectively, timely and consistently uses the case management
system while managing PR caseloadQUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Management, Human Resources or related
field
- 5+ years of human resource management experience addressing
Employee Relations matters, to include leading high-level, complex
company investigations and developing recommended courses of action
to remediate substantiated claimsExperience with company employee
engagement programsEXPERIENCE
- Demonstrates passion for and focus on building a diverse and
inclusive work culture, fostering psychological safety and a strong
sense of belonging
- Demonstrated enterprise mindset and system thinking, proven
ability to work effectively across multiple business areas, global
teams and key leadership areas in a fast paced VUCA
environment
- Demonstrates ability to leverage technology and data to
generate insights as foundation for diagnosis, recommendations and
decisions
- Demonstrates passion and ability to leverage digital tools for
collaboration, co-creation and sharing across the system
- Demonstrated consultation and influencing skills with a diverse
group of stakeholders across the business
- Deep domain experience in the areas of employee relations
and/or labor relations, good understanding of performance
management on a global scale (preferred), expert negotiation skills
that diffuse volatile situations
- and result in course correction of people relationshipsKEY
SKILLS / CAPABILITIES
- Significant experience in People Relations or Employee
Relations
- Demonstrated ability to influence with courageous authenticity
and build trust with individuals at all levels within the
organization
- Highly skilled at having difficult conversations, able to coach
and use the creative mindset to help people see a situation
differently
- Resolution skills with ability to negotiate and resolve complex
matters, putting specific problems in the context of the larger
system
- Demonstrated excellent situational assessment and objective
evaluation skills, with an ability to comprehend and translate
complex topics and relevant business data into manageable pieces,
to then position the topics with strong communication
- Proven ability to advise on business reorganization and
restructures acting as a resource to the PR AoP and partners with
business leaders to drive work to conclusion
- Can recognize compliance concerns and ways of mitigating risk
aligning with legal consultation requirements and processes while
keeping the rights of the employee and Representative bodies in
mind and acts as a link to them
- Ability to effectively communicate impactfully to ensure the
respondent understands, has the opportunity to respond/share their
perspective and engage in meaningful dialogue
- Ability to apply technical expertise to resolve a variety of
highly complex issues providing unique solutions aligned with
business needs
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple complex issues and
highly sensitive PR moments that matter
- Comprehensive expertise in risk assessment as well as a strong
foundation in the application of employment law in business
situations
- Demonstrated ability to leverage technology and data to
generate insights as foundation for diagnosis, recommendations and
decisions
- Demonstrated passion and ability to leverage digital tools for
collaboration, co-creation and sharing across the system
- Lead group facilitation capabilities including
storytelling
- Cultivate relationships in a client agnostic
environmentRelocation benefits are not available for this job
postingWho we areAt Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100
countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working
together, we've become one of the world's leading research-focused
healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity
and diversity.As a global leader in healthcare, Roche Diagnostics
offers a broad portfolio of products, tools and services that help
in the prevention, diagnosis and management of diseases like HPV,
HIV, hepatitis and diabetes as well as other medical conditions,
such as fertility and blood coagulation. These products and
services are used by researchers, physicians, patients, hospitals
and laboratories worldwide to help improve people's lives. Roche is
an equal opportunity employer and strictly prohibits unlawful
discrimination based upon an individual's race, color, religion,
gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national
origin/ancestry, age, mental/physical disability, medical
condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other
characteristic protected by law.If you have a disability and need
an accommodation in relation to the online application process,
please contact us by completing this form Accommodations for
Applicants.
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