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Abbott · 7 hours ago

Manager Employee Relations

Illinois, United States

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$97K/yr - $195K/yr

10+ years exp

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. The Employee Relations Manager will manage Employee Relations cases, provide consultative services regarding HR policies, and ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations.

BiotechnologyEmergency MedicineGeneticsHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsManufacturingMedicalMedical DeviceNutritionPharmaceutical

Responsibilities

Effectively manages day-to-day operations of the employee relations support function for a single business unit and/or country. Master of employee relations complexities. Provides highly innovative strategic solutions. May lead cross functional teams and/or manage unique business unit projects

Provides general direction and training to ER staff

Adjudicates complex ER issues

Manages and monitors metrics and reporting for the business unit and/or country

Interprets, administers and communicates policies and procedures including a review and update of local laws and regulations

Consults, coordinates and managers reductions in force

Assists/participates in ER vendor selections

Maintains compliance with local and country laws

Liaison with Senior HR Management, Business Leaders, Business HR, Legal, OEC, Security, etc relating to all ER matters in supported area

Overall responsibility for single division or country Acts as a trusted advisor on important ER decisions

Anticipates, identifies and meets internal and external customer needs/expectations

Effectively communicates and negotiates with customers to define service levels

Influences business partners toward optimal solutions

Within scope of responsibility, grasps complexities and perceives relationships among problems or issues

Sells ideas or changes solution in order to find best practice

Encourages creative thinking in others, to bring forward as many ideas as possible

Assesses the degree to which changes to the scope, issues and risks will affect a project’s success with division or senior management to gain agreement for resolution

Leads project managers and teams in developing and executing a program plan ensuring that authorized resources are obtained to make certain that all activities are formed

Sponsor of identified projects

Proficient in application of common tools for managing project scope, cost schedule and resources. Assesses and manages strategic risk to best achieve business objectives

Ability to execute while balancing risk with business objectives

Ability to identify and manage risk, have contingency plans