[Hiring] Senior Employee Relations Partner @Guidewire Software

Role Description

The Global Employee Relations team at Guidewire is seeking a senior Employee Relations practitioner to support our business and colleagues across EMEA through complex employee and labour relations matters. The purpose of Global Employee Relations is to promote a safe, fair and trusted environment where colleagues can thrive and do their best work.

As an ER Partner, you will play a central role in ensuring employee relations processes are delivered with fairness, consistency, care and sound judgement. You will balance proactive and reactive work — advising leaders and managers through complex people situations, managing sensitive employee processes, anticipating risk and ensuring our practices meet legal and organisational standards. This role requires precision, discretion, empathy and commercial judgement, with the ability to operate confidently across multiple countries and cultures.

Qualifications

• Fluent French speaker.
• Significant Employee Relations experience within a multinational, technology-driven or complex organisational environment.
• Proven experience managing sensitive employment processes including investigations, PIPs, grievances, disciplinary matters, probation reviews and involuntary exits.
• Strong knowledge of UK, Ireland and France employment practices, with the ability to operate across multiple EMEA jurisdictions.
• Excellent judgement, communication and influencing skills, with the ability to advise confidently at all levels.
• Highly organised, analytical and comfortable managing multiple complex cases and competing priorities.
• Exceptional standards of confidentiality, integrity, accuracy and discretion.
• Ability to translate employment legislation and risk into clear, practical advice for managers and leaders.

Requirements

• End-to-end ER capability across the employee lifecycle.
• Workplace investigation accreditation or equivalent experience.
• Experience partnering with Legal, HR Business Partners, Centres of Excellence and senior business leaders.
• Experience working with employee representative bodies, Works Councils and/or unions.
• Strong process-improvement mindset, with experience developing scalable ER tools, dashboards or systems.
• Resilient and adaptable, with the ability to operate effectively under pressure and across multiple time zones.

Company Description

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.

As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1600+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

Guidewire Software, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to an inclusive workplace, and believe that a diversity of perspectives, abilities, and cultures is a key to our success. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.