Associate Manager, Employee Relations (Remote)

What You Will Do

The Associate Employee Relations Manager serves as a member of the Employee Relations/HR Investigations team and is viewed as an inter-divisional subject matter expert (SME) that plays a critical role in shaping employee experiences, mitigating risk, and advising HR and business leaders on sensitive and high-impact matters across the U.S. This person will manage and conduct investigations for a high volume portfolio of cases for the Global Quality Operations (GQO) team. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in HR investigations, a strong understanding of manufacturing environments, and a passion for fostering a culture of integrity and accountability.

This professional may work remotely.

• Conducts high-volume HR investigations across the U.S., including intake, planning, interviews, recommendations, determinations, and reporting; communicate case status and outcomes to managers and HRBPs.
• Provides additional support on high level, complex cases across the entire US as needed.
• Analyzes HR investigations, employee relations and other data trends to address and mitigate risk and support and drive our culture of integrity.
• Partners with HR and managers to drive necessary improvements.
• Responds to alleged violation of rules, regulations, policies, procedures and standards of conduct through the initiation of appropriate investigation procedures in partnership with Legal, Compliance and local HR teams.
• Provides counsel and advice to managers and HRBPs regarding employee relations issues, submits recommendations on addressing employee relations matters and assists with taking steps in response
• Develops and delivers training to managers, employees and HRBPs. Supports in defining the standards and processes related to employee relations across the US.
• Provides coaching to HRBPs on employee relations matters in addition to work environment matters
• Coordinates with compliance and legal regarding employee discipline for compliance investigations that are not work environment matters. May also assist in these investigations.
• Maintains knowledge of current and emerging laws and regulations, and periodically reviews and updates applicable standards, trends and issues affecting the company work environment and policies.
  
  

Required Qualifications

What you will need

• Bachelor’s degree and 6+ years of experience OR 12+ years of total work experience
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years business-facing HR, HR COE, HR Operations, or role-related experience
• Experience conducting work environment investigations in a manufacturing environment
• Experience working with tools such as PowerBI, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint to analyze trends
• Ability to read and write in Spanish
  
  

$87,600-$172,300 salary plus bonus eligible + benefits. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.

Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.