Manager, People Team

Location: Remote US

About the role

The Manager, People Team, is responsible for overseeing and implementing essential people initiatives, as well as providing daily support to managers in addressing their personnel matters. The role is responsible for driving a positive, high-performance culture for their designated employee group. This role partners closely with managers and employees to ensure People policies, processes, and practices are aligned with organisational goals while creating an engaging and inclusive working environment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for employee relations concerns, ensuring fair and consistent resolution.
• Maintain and update people policies in line with employment legislation.
• Advise managers and employees on People policies, procedures, and best practices
• Manage employee relations cases, including performance, sickness absence, disciplinary and grievance and redundancy
• Ensure fair, consistent, and legally compliant handling of all employee relations matters
• Implement and localize global People policies in line with country specific requirements
• Provide training for new and updated policies within country
• Support exit processes including redundancy
• Ensure compliance with all local labor laws and regulations
• Maintain up to date knowledge of state and country specific employment legislation
• Partner with legal and People leadership to mitigate risk and ensure governance
• Support audits, documentation, and reporting requirements
• Ensure country orbit pages are up to date and correct
• Ensure country pages on Orbit are up to date and act as contact for managers
• Coach and support managers on: Employee relations, Performance management, Team effectiveness
• Conduct regular 121's with people leaders - at least quarterly to understand their people issues and support where appropriate
• Ensure the successful implementation of the employee lifecycle processes within the business to ensure employee and manager engagement
• Identify training needs and help coordinate learning activities and development programmes.
• Deliver training and guidance for all managers to deliver confident and capable managers and leaders
• In partnership with Ops drive the country Orbit page as a 1st line resource for employees and managers
• Support employer branding initiatives across the business
• Partner with Operations on