Labor Relations Manager (Japanese, English)
About the job
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- Bachelor's degree in Business/Business Law, Human Resources, or a related field
- 7 years of experience leading HR programs or projects
- Experience in HR, labor relations, industrial relations, employee relations, and labor law
- Fluent in Japanese and English
- Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders in Japan
- Experience managing ambiguity and analyzing metrics
- Experience working in complex corporate structures
- Ability to work cross-functionally and collaboratively
- Ability to combine strategic thinking with operational work
- Excellent problem-solving skills
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business/Business Law, Human Resources, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience leading and managing HR programs or projects, including cross-functional and cross-team initiatives.
- Experience in Human Resources (HR), labor relations, industrial relations, employee relations, and labor law.
- Ability to communicate in Japanese and English fluently, to support stakeholders in Japan.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience managing ambiguity and analyzing metrics to find root causes, identity opportunities, and adjust strategy accordingly.
- Experience working in complex corporate structures.
- Ability to work cross-functionally and collaboratively across teams and act as a trusted advisor to all levels of management.
- Ability to combine strategic thinking with operational work to drive the implementation of concrete initiatives on the ground.
- Excellent problem solving skills.
About the job
People Operations strives to revolutionize human resources the same way that Google has revolutionized search. We are helping to find, grow and keep the remarkable assemblage of talent who are our Googlers. You'll be an advocate of Google's culture and values, partnering with our business leaders to help them build their organizations and make sure all people decisions are based on data. Whether coaching our clients on how to lead their teams, navigating and resolving employee relations issues or managing programs that help develop our Googlers, you are exceptionally focused on putting them first, and being as clear and transparent as possible to help Googlers understand how people decisions get made.
Great just isn't good enough for our People Operations team (known elsewhere as "Human Resources"). We bring the world's most innovative people to Google and provide the programs that help them thrive. Whether recruiting the next Googler, refining our core programs, developing talent, or simply looking for ways to inject some more fun into the lives of our Googlers, we bring a data-driven approach that is reinventing the human resources field. You’ll play an essential role advancing a more diverse, accessible, equitable, and inclusive Google through our hiring, promotion, retention, and inclusion practices.
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership to mitigate risk and build constructive labor relations with employee representative bodies in Japan.
- Evaluate and improve labor relations processes to increase efficiency, taking into account local legal requirements.
- Develop and deliver comprehensive training to improve labor relations acumen and skills across HR and main stakeholders.
- Be a trusted and expert advisor to HR and management on complex labor relations issues in Japan by monitoring and analyzing internal and external trends, regulatory changes and provide strategic and tactical guidance for HR and leaders.
- Partner with and influence Business HR, policy owners, and others to successfully implement business-specific or corporate-wide initiatives, programs, and policies through efficient information and consultation processes.
About The Company
A problem isn't truly solved until it's solved for all. Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.
