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Senior Labour and Employee Relations Specialist

2 months ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Danaher Full time

Wondering what's within Danaher? Take a closer look.

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 UK covering UK, IRL and Eastern Europe.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

  • Handling non-routine core ER matters in partnership with OpCo HR that present complexity or higher risk or require policy interpretation, including non-routine workplace investigations, leave accommodation issues, termination matters both individual and mass layoffs applying a systematic approach to address root causes, develop and recommend actions and countermeasures.
  • 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 UK/Ireland (and Eastern Europe 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.
  • Must be able to apply LER expertise and experience with a pragmatic and proactive approach, balance collaborative workplace partnerships and business interests, and influence and lead stakeholders.
  • 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.

At Danaher we bring together science, technology and operational capabilities to accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow's science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life. Our global teams are pioneering what's next across Life Sciences, Diagnostics, Biotechnology and beyond. For more information, visit

At Danaher, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.

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