Lifecycle Specialist, Employee Relations and Transitions manages complex employee exits across multiple international jurisdictions, ensuring full legal compliance and delivering a smooth, respectful experience for employees and customers. The role acts as a key advisor on employee relations matters, collaborating with legal, payroll, benefits, and customer success teams to navigate sensitive workplace situations and maintain consistent policy application. This high-impact position requires 8+ years of HR experience, strong knowledge of global employment law, and fluency in AI and automation tools.
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Job Description
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Lifecycle Specialist, Employee Relations and Transitions based in Spain.
This role sits within a global HR lifecycle function supporting international clients across multiple jurisdictions. It focuses on managing complex employee exits while ensuring full legal compliance and delivering a smooth, respectful experience for employees and customers. You will act as a key advisor on employee relations matters, helping navigate sensitive workplace situations and ensuring consistent application of policies. The position operates in a highly global, fast-paced, and fully remote environment spanning EMEA and APAC regions. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams including legal, payroll, benefits, and customer success to ensure seamless lifecycle operations. This is a high-impact role where accuracy, judgment, and communication directly influence employee experience and compliance outcomes worldwide.
Accountabilities
- Manage end-to-end employee offboarding processes across multiple international jurisdictions, ensuring compliance, accuracy, and a high-quality experience for all stakeholders involved.
- Provide guidance on terminations, resignations, redundancies, employment contracts, and related HR matters while ensuring alignment with local labor laws and best practices.
- Lead and support employee relations discussions, including consultations, hearings, and separation processes, ensuring fair, compliant, and well-documented outcomes.
- Coordinate with internal teams such as legal, payroll, benefits, and customer success to ensure seamless execution of employee exits and lifecycle events.
- Draft, review, and administer termination and HR documentation while maintaining strict confidentiality and data integrity within HR systems.
- Act as a first point of contact for employee relations queries, conducting preliminary assessments and guiding stakeholders through appropriate next steps.
- Identify opportunities to improve lifecycle processes, automation, and service delivery to enhance operational efficiency and employee experience.
- 8+ years of experience in HR roles such as HR Advisor or HR Business Partner with strong exposure to full employee lifecycle management.
- Proven experience managing voluntary and involuntary exits with strong attention to compliance, sensitivity, and stakeholder management.
- Strong knowledge of employment law principles across multiple jurisdictions and ability to operate in complex, global environments.
- Solid understanding of employee relations practices, including disciplinary processes, workplace issues, and basic investigation principles.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and influencing skills with the ability to handle sensitive conversations professionally and effectively.
- Experience working in remote, asynchronous, and tech-enabled environments with strong adaptability to digital HR systems and tools.
- Strong analytical mindset with the ability to interpret policies, assess complex situations, and provide clear, practical recommendations.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently while collaborating effectively in cross-functional, multicultural teams.
- AI and automation fluency with a proactive mindset toward process improvement and innovation.
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