Associate Manager, Employee Relations

About the role

Make an impact where it matters most—helping shape a fair, respectful, and high-performing workplace. In this role, you’ll lead complex employee relations investigations across multiple regions while partnering closely with HR and business leaders to strengthen culture, mitigate risk, and drive consistency. This is an opportunity to influence outcomes at scale while building trusted relationships across a global organization.

Responsibilities

• Conduct HR investigations for a high-volume portfolio of cases across all US, LATAM, and Canada, including intake processes, investigation planning, conducting interviews, making determinations and recommendations, and providing reporting/insights analysis.
• Communicate and update the status of investigations to relevant managers and HR Business Partners (HRBPs).
• Make recommendations to HRBPs and leadership regarding investigations and employee relations issues.
• Provide additional support on high-level, complex cases as needed.
• Analyze HR investigations, employee relations, and other data trends to address and mitigate risk and support and drive a culture of integrity. Partner with HR to drive necessary improvements.
• Respond to alleged violations of rules, regulations, policies, procedures, and standards of conduct through the initiation of appropriate investigation procedures in partnership with Employment Legal, Compliance, and local HR teams.
• Provide counsel and advice to HRBPs regarding employee relations issues, submitting recommendations on addressing employee relations matters.
• Develop and deliver training to managers, employees, and HRBPs as appropriate. Support in defining the standards and processes related to employee relations.
• Provide coaching to HRBPs on employee relations matters in addition to work environment matters.
• Coordinate with Compliance and Employment Legal regarding employee discipline for Compliance investigations that are not work environment matters. May also assist in these investigations.
• Maintain knowledge of current and emerging laws and regulations, and periodically review and update applicable standards, trends, and issues affecting the company work environment and policies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or 6+ years of relevant experience.
• Minimum 6 years of work experience.
• Bilingual fluency in speaking and writing Spanish.

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of business-facing HR, HR COE, HR Operations, or role-related experience.
• Minimum 1 year of relevant investigation experience.
• Bilingual Portuguese.
• Commutable distance from a major Stryker hub.

Pay

Annual pay ranges (USD):

• USN: $89,300 - $148,800
• US5: $93,800 - $156,200
• US10: $98,200 - $163,700
• US15: $102,700 - $171,100
• US20: $107,200 - $178,600
• US30: $116,100 - $193,400

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Benefits

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
• 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.

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