Employee relations senior manager (ourense)

Position

The Employee Relations Senior Manager is responsible for providing executive advice in HR Legal matters in complex projects involving employee relations matters. The role secures compliance with HR Legal matters and maintains dialogue with worker representatives, including the European Worker Council. It requires close collaboration with business leadership and People & Culture leadership to enable projects and manage complex employee matters.

Key Accountabilities

• Define and execute the global labour relations strategy aligned with business priorities in a fast‑growing international environment.
• Act as the company’s primary authority on Spanish labour law, ensuring full legal compliance and risk mitigation.
• Provide labour guidance and oversight across other jurisdictions, supporting international growth and local compliance.
• Assess labour risks related to organisational changes, M&A, and restructurings.
• Develop and maintain integral labour policies, frameworks and procedures that ensure consistency, scalability and legal compliance.
• Review and oversee employment contracts, contractual addenda, disciplinary frameworks and labour‑related documentation.
• Lead internal and external labour audits, ensuring documentation accuracy, traceability and regulatory compliance.
• Define and manage the company’s strategy for relationships with works councils, employee representatives and unions, including the European Worker Council.
• Lead collective bargaining processes, consultations and formal information and negotiation procedures.
• Represent the company in labour‑related proceedings and formal interactions with social partners and authorities.

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong expertise in Spanish labour law and solid knowledge of international labour frameworks. Experience in France or Italian labour law would be a plus.
• Strong analytical, risk‑assessment and decision‑making skills with a business‑oriented mindset.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and stakeholder management skills at senior level.
• Fluent in English and Spanish; additional languages are a plus.

Experience

• Extensive experience in senior roles in Labour Relations, Employment Law or Employee Relations, preferably a combined career in a labour firm and in‑house employee relations role.
• Proven experience managing complex ER cases, labour disputes, reorganisations, negotiations, works councils and unions involving blue‑collar employees.

Qualifications

• Degree in Law; additional specialisation is a plus.

EEO Statement

At RES we celebrate difference as we know it makes our company a great place to work. Encouraging applicants with different backgrounds, ideas and points of view, we create teams who work together to solve complex problems and design practical solutions for our clients. Our multiple perspectives come from many sources including diversity in ethnicity, culture, gender, nationality, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, marital status, parental status, education, social background and life experience.