Senior Labor & Employee Relations Manager

Location: Dusseldorf, Germany

Company

hirify.global is a global science and technology company operating across diagnostics, life sciences, and biotechnology businesses.

What you will do

• Lead labor and employee relations strategy for assigned Diagnostics operating companies across the DACH and Benelux region.
• Advise senior HR and business leaders on labor risk, workforce decisions, organizational change, and employment legislation.
• Manage complex and high-risk employee relations matters, including investigations, conduct cases, grievances, accommodations, and terminations.
• Lead consultation and collective negotiation processes with works councils, trade unions, and other employee representative bodies.
• Provide labor relations leadership for workforce reductions, restructurings, TUPE transfers, reorganizations, mergers, acquisitions, integrations, expansions, and site closures.
• Build governance, policies, toolkits, standard work, preventive risk approaches, and labor relations capability across the Diagnostics Platform.

Requirements

• German Bachelor’s Law Degree, Juris Doctor degree, master’s degree in Human Resources, a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• At least 12 years of progressive experience in labor relations, employee relations, employment law, HR business partnering, or a related discipline.
• Expertise in German employment and labor law, collective labor relations frameworks, restructuring obligations, and co-determination requirements.
• Experience leading complex employee relations cases, collective workforce reductions, restructuring, harmonization, and major organizational change.
• Experience advising senior leaders and coordinating execution across a matrixed, multinational environment.
• Ability to travel up to 25% to support assigned sites, employee representative engagements, and transformation activities.

Nice to have

• Employment law or senior labor and employee relations experience in an additional DACH or Benelux jurisdiction.
• Professional proficiency in Dutch or French.
• Experience in manufacturing, diagnostics, life sciences, or another highly regulated environment.
• Experience with mergers, acquisitions, integrations, or significant site transformation.

Culture & Benefits

• Culture focused on continuous improvement, belonging, and developing talent from within.
• Opportunity to work with senior HR and business leaders across multiple operating companies and legal entities.
• Collaboration with global labor and employee relations, compliance, legal, and external counsel partners.
• Role includes travel of up to 25% across assigned sites and operating companies.