At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections,  where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

Our People Relation Partners bring value through trusted partnership, by finding solutions that consider the experience of our employees and the interests of Roche. They are key contributors to positive employee experience in moments that matter and provide proactive solutions to enable our people to focus on our core purpose. They coach and train leaders for proactive early interventions. They operate on a balanced, neutral perspective to support successful navigation through challenging moments, which is contributing to the positive reputation of Roche. The People Relations (PR) Partner quickly adapts and deals with emergent issues where needed as well as identifies long-term opportunities to enhance the employee experience and positively impact moments that matter. 

This role is based in Budapest. This role will cover and support multiple countries from the North and Eastern Europe Network, as well as the Middle East and Africa. 

The Opportunity:

• Consulting and providing advice, counsel and resolution 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

• Working in partnership with Compliance to determine if any support is required for Business Ethics Incident Reporting complaint resolution, and acting as a point of escalation for any other complex complaints

• Surfacing root causes and broader trends through the use of data in order to ensure business leaders are best positioned to address any pervasive concerns, and advise on how to prevent complaints through fair and consistent performance management

• Advising on performance management issues that are complex, contentious and are determined to carry potential levels of legal risk 

• Consulting and supporting reorganization/transformations and strategic workforce planning exercises; providing thought leadership to business leaders on restructures and reorganization and engaging internal and external partners and stakeholders to drive initiatives to conclusion

• Managing projects related to the PR key areas of responsibilities (e.g. restructurings, negotiations with employee representations, conflict prevention) resulting from global/regional/local business needs

• Participating in cross-organizational reviews of broad-based P&C programs

• Managing the relationship with the local Unions, proactively identifying issues requiring information, advice or consent. 

Who you are:

• You possess a strong track record of experience in the areas of employee relations and/or labor relations, with a solid understanding of performance management on a global scale

• You have a solid knowledge and experience in Employment and labor Law, ideally across multiple EMEA counties

• You have demonstrated consultation and influencing skills with a diverse group of stakeholders, you excel in negotiation, diffusing volatile situations, and steering people relationships towards positive outcomes. You have an enterprise mindset and system thinking, and are proven to work effectively across multiple business areas, global teams, and leadership levels.

• You demonstrate ability to leverage technology and data to generate insights as foundation for diagnosis, recommendations and decisions 

• You are passionate about building an inclusive work culture, fostering psychological safety and a strong sense of belonging

• You are proficient in English. French language can be a plus but not a strong requirement

In exchange we provide you with:

• Development opportunities: Roche is rich in learning resources. We provide constant development opportunities, free language courses & trainings, the possibility of international assignments, internal position changes and the chance to shape your own career. 

• Excellent benefits & flexibility:  competitive salary and cafeteria package, annual bonus, Loyalty & Parental Leave, Private Medical Services, Employee Assistance Program, All You Can Move Sportpass, coaching / mentoring opportunity, buddy program, team buildings, holiday party. We also ensure flexibility, to help you find your balance: home office is a common practice (2 office days / week).

• A global inclusive community, where we learn from each other. At Roche, we collaborate, debate, make decisions, celebrate successes and have fun as a team. Our leadership is very focused on people, creating a strong, inclusive culture, so you always have the chance to share your opinion.

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Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

The Roche Services & Solutions as well as People Support Solutions organisations located in Budapest provide end-to-end business solutions for Finance, Procurement, IT, Communications, People & Culture (Human Resources) and beyond to our Roche colleagues across the EMEA region. Today Roche employs altogether around 2000 employees in Hungary.