Senior Employee Relations Partner (French Speaking)

Location: Ireland — Remote

Company

hirify.global provides a cloud platform combining digital, core, analytics, and AI capabilities for property and casualty insurers worldwide.

What you will do

• Lead and advise on complex employee relations cases, including investigations, performance improvement plans, grievances, disciplinary matters, probation reviews, and involuntary exits.
• Manage relationships with employee representative bodies in France, including CSEs, works councils, unions, and similar groups.
• Identify employee and labour relations risks and develop practical mitigation strategies for sensitive, high-stakes situations.
• Monitor employment legislation across EMEA and translate legal requirements into policies, guidance, training, and manager interventions.
• Analyse ER metrics, maintain governance and case reporting, and develop dashboards, tools, and processes that improve consistency and compliance.
• Deliver scalable global ER products, toolkits, programmes, and technology or systems implementations.

Requirements

• Fluent French required.
• Significant employee relations experience in a multinational, technology-driven, or complex organisation.
• Strong knowledge of employment practices in the UK, Ireland, and France, with the ability to operate across multiple EMEA jurisdictions.
• Experience managing sensitive employment processes, including investigations, PIPs, grievances, disciplinary matters, probation reviews, and involuntary exits.
• AI fluency, strong judgement, communication and influencing skills, and the ability to advise leaders at all levels.
• Highly organised, analytical, discreet, and comfortable managing multiple complex cases and competing priorities.

Nice to have

• Workplace investigation accreditation or equivalent experience.
• Experience partnering with Legal, HR Business Partners, Centres of Excellence, and senior business leaders.
• Experience with works councils, unions, and other employee representative bodies.
• Experience developing scalable ER tools, dashboards, systems, or process improvements.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and across multiple time zones.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a global employee relations function supporting colleagues across EMEA.
• Focus on fair, consistent, inclusive, and trusted employee relations processes.
• Work across multiple countries, cultures, and organisational environments.
• Support global organisational transformations, compensation changes, and other major corporate initiatives.