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The Position
As a People Relations Partner you foster trusted partnerships by balancing employee experience and company interests, contributing to a positive work environment during key moments. You will provide proactive solutions, coach leaders for early interventions, and maintain a neutral stance to navigate challenges, enhancing Roche’s reputation. The role involves addressing immediate issues while identifying long-term opportunities to improve employee experience. This position supports Roche Italy, and is based in Monza.

THIS IS THE KIND OF EXPERTISE AND EXPERIENCE YOU BRING:

• Solid knowledge and experience of Italian labor law and, more generally, the common principles of European employment law.
• Proven experience in an HR or equivalent position, with deep know-how in the areas of employee relations and/or labor relations, as well as a good understanding of performance management on a global scale.
• Ability to leverage technology and data to generate insights as a foundation for diagnosis, recommendations, and decisions.
• Passionate about creating diverse, inclusive work cultures with psychological safety, while leveraging an enterprise mindset and strong consultation skills to collaborate effectively across global teams and leadership.
• You hold a degree in law and are preferably a lawyer.
• You are fluent in Italian and in English.

• Collaborating and providing advice to employees and managers on a broad range of people relations matters, including policy interpretation and application, conflict resolution, complex performance management and termination processes and practices
• Work in partnership with Compliance to determine if any support is required for complaint resolution and as a point of escalation for any other complex complaints
• Provide thought leadership to business leaders on restructures and reorganization and engaging internal and external partners and stakeholders to drive initiatives to conclusion
• Advise on performance management issues that are complex, contentious and are determined to carry potential levels of legal risk
• Consult and support reorganization/transformations and strategic workforce planning exercises
• Manage projects related to the People Relations key areas of responsibilities (e.g. restructurings, negotiations with employee representations, conflict prevention) resulting from global/regional/local business needs and participates in cross-organizational reviews of broad-based P&C programs
• Manage the relationship with the local Unions proactively identifying issues requiring information, advice or consent.