Senior Labour and Employee Relations Specialist

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Danaher is a leading global life sciences and diagnostics innovator committed to accelerating the power of science and technology to improve human health. We are a $24 billion company with 16 operating companies and a combined total workforce of 66,000 associates worldwide.

Look again and you’ll see the opportunity to build a meaningful career, be creative, and take risks with the support you need to be successful. You’ll find associates who are as certain about their impact as they are about where they’re headed next. You’ll find the Danaher Business System, which makes everything possible. You’ll also see a company that investors trust—our culture of continuous improvement has helped us outperform the S&P 500 by more than 5,000% over the past 25 years.

And no matter where you look at Danaher, at the heart of what we do, you’ll witness our shared purpose—helping realize life’s potential—in action. Whether we’re supporting a life-saving vaccine development or advancing a new instrument for cancer diagnosis our work helps improve millions of lives.

We hope you’ll see yourself here, too. What you find at Danaher—and within yourself— might just change the world.

Danaher has a matrixed and decentralized organizational structure. With a significant presence in Europe, Danaher’s 16 operating companies (OpCos) present a wide breadth of employee representative forums, including 50+ works councils across Europe. Danaher is building a global Labor & Employee Relations function which includes a Center of Excellence (LER COE) service model which provides core labour and employee relations services to its operating companies.

The Senior Labour and Employee Relations Specialist is responsible for driving and supporting execution of Danaher’s labour and employee relations strategies in Europe.

This position is a member of the of the Danaher Corporate HR Labour and Employee Relations (LER) EU team and will be located in France( covering France, Italy, Benelux, Spain, Portugal)

**In this role, you will be responsible for**:

- Supporting OpCo HR Business Partners (HRBPs)/HR Generalists on routine core ER processes including workplace investigations, performance management issues, associate employment separations (individual and mass dismissals), and performance management issues.
- Providing leadership on enterprise initiatives and projects, including as to associate representative information and consultation requirements.
- Providing mentorship, guidance and advice on works council/union/labour relations matters as appropriate, including establishing and/or maintaining and grooming constructive and business-oriented partnerships with employee representatives.

**The essential requirements of the job include**:

- University degree (undergraduate degree required, graduate degree preferred) in Law (Labour/Industrial relations), Labour Relations, Business, Human Resources, or another related field.
- 10+ years of combined human resources, employee relations, labor relations, and/or L&E legal experience in a law firm or company.
- Subject matter expertise and solid technical knowledge of fundamental labour and employment laws and labour and employee relations landscape in France and Benelux, Italy, Iberia would be a plus)
- Experience managing, handling, and executing complex employee investigations.
- Experience managing and coordinating employee representative bodies including execution of business change, restructuring, policy, and project deployment.
- Experience developing and implementing process-oriented solutions to scale and drive consistent LER practice and outcomes.
- Able to travel 20%

At Danaher we believe in designing a better, more sustainable workforce. We recognize the benefits of flexible, remote working arrangements for eligible roles and are committed to providing enriching careers, no matter the work arrangement. This position is eligible for a remote work arrangement in which you can work remotely from your home. Additional information about this remote work arrangement will be provided by your interview team. Explore the flexibility and challenge that working for Danaher can provide.

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