Senior Employee Relations Partner

Role Overview

• Own complex, sensitive, and high-stakes workplace investigations including C-suite misconduct, systemic discrimination patterns, and multi-state coordinated complaints.
• Lead enterprise crisis response for workplace violence, severe harassment allegations, executive misconduct, and other urgent situations requiring immediate executive-level intervention.
• Conduct forensic investigations involving financial misconduct, fraud, theft, or other criminal matters in coordination with Legal, Compliance, and law enforcement.
• Provide quality assurance oversight for all ER2 investigations, ensuring consistency, thoroughness, and legal defensibility across the enterprise.
• Develop and implement investigation protocols, templates, and best practices that ensure enterprise-wide consistency and excellence.
• Lead enterprise-wide employment policy development, revision, and implementation in partnership with Legal, Compliance, and business stakeholders.
• Serve as ultimate authority on federal and multi-state employment law interpretation, providing strategic guidance on complex legal scenarios across all operating jurisdictions.
• Monitor legislative landscape across all states, assess enterprise impact, and lead proactive compliance strategy including policy updates, training rollouts, and risk mitigation.
• Partner with Compliance, Safety, and Information Security teams to ensure integrated approach to regulatory risk management.
• Represent organization in complex regulatory matters, serving as liaison to government agencies and demonstrating enterprise commitment to compliance.
• Serve as primary ER liaison to outside counsel for all employment litigation, managing case strategy, discovery coordination, and settlement negotiations.
• Lead enterprise response to EEOC charges, state civil rights complaints, Department of Labor investigations, and other regulatory proceedings with strategic coordination across Legal and business functions.
• Develop and implement proactive risk mitigation strategies based on litigation trends, regulatory guidance, and organizational risk assessment.
• Participate as fact witness and company representative in depositions, mediations, arbitrations, and settlement conferences.
• Oversee enterprise unemployment claims strategy, ensuring consistent approach across multiple state jurisdictions and achieving favorable win rates.
• Support ER function transformation initiatives including organizational redesign, process optimization, technology implementation, and service delivery model enhancements.
• Develop and mentor ER Specialist 1 and ER Specialist 2 team members, serving as coach, thought leader, and career development advisor.
• Design and deliver advanced ER training programs for HR Field Partners, regional HR leadership, and business executives on investigation excellence, legal compliance, and strategic ER partnership.
• Support in establishing ER center of excellence framework with standardized methodologies, knowledge management systems, and continuous improvement processes.
• Represent ER function on cross-functional leadership committees and enterprise initiatives requiring ER expertise and strategic perspective.
• Conduct sophisticated analysis of case data, identifying systemic patterns, geographic hotspots, organizational risk factors, and culture indicators requiring intervention.
• Lead enterprise-wide root cause analysis for recurring issues, partnering with HR Business Partners and operational leaders to implement sustainable solutions.
• Serve as strategic partner in organizational culture transformation initiatives, translating culture goals into ER practices and interventions.
• Support in designing enterprise-wide programs addressing workplace conduct, inclusive culture, respectful workplace, and leadership accountability.
• Partner with Diversity, Equity & Inclusion leadership to ensure ER practices support and advance organizational DEI commitments.
• Lead change management efforts for major organizational initiatives with significant employee impact, providing strategic ER guidance and risk mitigation.
• Support in developing and implementing manager capability programs focused on early intervention, performance accountability, and creating psychologically safe work environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Industrial Relations, or related field required; Master's degree in HR, Law, Business, or related field strongly preferred
• 7-10+ years of progressive employee relations experience in large, complex organizations (10,000+ employees), with minimum 5 years conducting high-complexity workplace investigations
• SHRM-SCP, SPHR, or equivalent senior-level certification preferred
• Proven track record of executive partnership and influencing senior leadership decision-making
• Extensive experience managing employment litigation, regulatory matters, and external counsel relationships
• Demonstrated success supporting ER teams, transformation initiatives, and enterprise-level strategic projects.

Benefits

• Maintains patient confidentiality and functions within the guidelines of HIPAA.
• Completes assigned compliance training and other education programs as required.
• Maintains compliance with AdaptHealth's Compliance Program.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.