JOB TITLE: Employee Relations Specialist
JOB LOCATION: Lagos
Job Type: Full time
JOB DETAILS:
- Support in establishing a positive and engaging workplace culture by effectively facilitating and resolving employee relations matters.
- Provide day-to-day advice and counsel to managers on a wide range of employee relations issues including progressive counselling, performance management, company policies and procedures.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to Managers and HR team, consult, advise, coach, educate and provide decision making support to the business on a variety of employee relations issues.
- Identify and recommend strategies to address current and future employee relations and retention needs.
- Mitigate risk by ensuring compliance with APM Terminals policies & local labor laws.
- Evaluate and review employee related decisions in response to employee concerns.
- Identify, analyse and implement resolutions to complex and sensitive issues in a timely and professional manner.
- Lead and conduct investigations regarding potential misconduct and policy violations.
- Support the outcome of cases throughout partnership with the business.
- Support the organization with legislatively compliant implementation of initiatives.
- Use metrics to highlight trends and develop strategies to foster positive employee relations.
- Make recommendations based on assessment of trend and root cause analysis.
- Assist in executing certain collective bargaining and/or union activities, including agreements.
- Mediate any issues of conflict that may have been escalated due to differences between management; union and employees.
- Track and ensure compliance against labor legislative requirements and conditions of employment.
- Maintain a database of key contacts, important to the work of employee relations.
- Observe social, economic and political trends that might ultimately have an effect upon the organization, and make recommendations to enhance the company’s image based on those trends.
- Act as a liaison for senior management on community issues and affairs, advising them of sensitive and/or important issues for the community, and recommending plans of action, when appropriate.
- Manage relationship with external labor providers ensuring that such providers are legislatively compliant.
- Avoid labor disputes through the establishment of good relationships between all stakeholders.
Requirements
We are looking for:
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- Require a University Degree in Human Resources Management or related discipline.
- 4-6 years Human Resources/Employee Relations experience.
- Experience working in a Union environment as a spokesperson for negotiations, grievance proceedings and proactive in day to day labor relations management.
- Knowledge of Compensation and Reward Philosophies.
- Ability to anticipate issues/needs and to work proactively to address them.
- Comprehensive knowledge in employment, employee relations practices and principles, and current laws impacting human resources.
- Sound analytical, critical thinking, problem-solving and negotiating skills, with the ability to understand broad HR issues and to resolve conflict situations.
- Thorough understanding of investigative methods and principles.
- Thoroughly knowledgeable in various international labor relations standards.
- Demonstrate leadership and management skills.
- Demonstrate ability to work effectively with all levels of employees.
- Possess strong negotiation and analytical skills.
- Demonstrate ability to exercise discretion and good judgment, and to understand the effect of decisions overall in the company.
- Ability to handle confidential company and employee information with complete discretion.
- Require advanced verbal and written communications skills in English, in addition to effective interpersonal skills.
We Offer
- We offer you exciting career opportunities with an international reach to further expand your experience through our diversity-focused and award-winning talent development initiatives.
- Energizing and pioneering, this is also an environment that keeps you motivated. You’ll be joining a values-led, genuinely diverse, and talented team that is passionate about being there for employees, and for each other. We strive to deliver the right environment for the right people while fostering a culture of fairness, mutual respect, responsibility, and care for our business and our customers.
- We have a competitive compensation and benefits package for full-time employees. Our talent policies are recognized world-wide as one of the best in the industry and we continue to look for new ways to invest in our people through ongoing personal and professional development initiatives.
- We value the diversity of our talent and will always strive to recruit the best person for the job. We’re proud of that and we see it as a genuine source of strength for building high performing teams.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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