We have an opportunity for an Employee Relations Consultant, where you will play a key role in supporting employees and managers, resolving complex issues, and ensuring our policies meet local legal standards. You will be part of a team of five responsible for employee relations matters, liaising with HR Business Partners, employee representatives, and management to foster a respectful and productive work environment.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience with the German policies and regulations, but will also be responsible for providing support across Europe. In this role, you will help foster a respectful and productive work environment by ensuring legal compliance, supporting the adoption and localisation of corporate HR policies, managing employee relations cases, working with employee representative bodies (such as unions and works councils), planning and supporting country restructuring, and participating in audits.

You will:

• Advise on and implement HR policies incl. health and safety (H&S) regulations that meet local legal requirements and company standards.

• Manage employee relations cases, including grievances, disputes, and investigations.

• Act as a main contact for employee representative bodies (unions, works councils, employee representatives).

• Support and guide restructuring and change management processes.

• Identify and address compliance risks in HR processes.

• Ensure compliance with local employment laws and company policies, including health and safety (H&S).

• Work with internal and external legal advisors and data privacy officers.

• Deliver training to managers and employees on conflict resolution, workplace ethics, and compliance.

• Analyse employee relations trends and prepare reports for management.

• Maintain accurate and confidential records of cases and actions.

• Support audits and HR compliance reviews.

• Communicate clearly and effectively with employees and management at all levels.

• Build trust and credibility with staff and leadership.

• Mediate and resolve conflicts in a fair and timely manner.

• Promote a culture of respect, inclusion, and ethical behaviour.

You will bring:

• Sound knowledge of German and European employment law and HR practices.

• Experience handling employee relations cases and working with employee representative bodies.

• Skilled in conducting fair and confidential investigations.

• Strong communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

• Experience supporting organisational change and building employee trust.

• Proficient in English; proficiency in local language(s) is an advantage.

• High integrity, discretion, and ability to handle sensitive information.

Life at Sony

We ensure competitive salaries and benefits by using established benchmarking. We encourage healthy work-life balance supported by hybrid and flexible working policies. We are a positive community who dream big together, respect each other, and enjoy a collaborative culture.

We like to celebrate our colleagues who make a real difference using our recognition platform. We also provide access to numerous services and platforms for all aspects of wellbeing. We listen to our people through conversations and surveys, respect their suggestions, then act on them. We also provide allowances for volunteering days so that our staff can support the causes they are most passionate about.

You can build your career around you with our fantastic range of learning & personal development programs to enhance your skills. We also encourage our staff to try exciting new roles, in a wide range of countries, with a supportive mobility team to support you if you take that leap!

Bring your uniqueness to Sony

We are passionate about creating a culture that promotes equity and cultivates inclusion, diversity, and belonging. We want employees with diverse backgrounds and perspectives that will stimulate innovation and have a direct impact on our creation of social value to fulfil Sony’s purpose – ‘to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology’. We want you to bring your unique self to work and help shape our culture.

We are Sony Europe

Our people collaborate in an environment of respect, integrity, and open-mindedness. Diverse teams from all over Europe are the driving force for our business, and we embrace the differences that make each of us original and unique.

With offices in 28 European countries, Sony Europe caters to consumer, professional, semiconductor and healthcare markets with innovative electronics products and solutions. Our European laboratories research and develop new technologies and capabilities that contributes to the Sony Group and important issues on a planetary scale.

Bring your passion, creativity and ambitions to Sony Europe. Apply now, and let’s create the future together.

Equal Opportunity

Sony Europe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, citizenship, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, medical condition, or any other protected characteristics.

Disability Accommodation for Applicants to Sony Europe

Sony Europe will provide reasonable accommodation for any qualified individuals with disabilities in the application process. For reasonable accommodation requests, please contact us by email at AccommodationRequest@eu.sony.com or by mail to: Sony Europe Limited, Human Resources Department, the Heights, Brooklands, Surrey, KT13 0XW, UK. When contacting us please indicate the position you are applying for, and the accommodation required.

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