Employee Relations Analyst

Job Description India is among the top ten priority markets for General Mills, and hosts our Global Shared Services Centre. This is the Global Shared Services arm of General Mills Inc., which supports its operations worldwide. With over 1,300 employees in Mumbai, the center has capabilities in the areas of Supply Chain, Finance, HR, Digital and Technology, Sales Capabilities, Consumer Insights, ITQ (R&D & Quality), and Enterprise Business Services. Learning and capacity-building is a key ingredient of our success. Employee Relations Analyst As a member of the Employee Relations team, you will make significant and meaningful contributions to the businesses and teams you support. You will form lasting partnerships with a broad range of leaders at all levels of the organization who look to you for guidance and advice on sensitive matters concerning their teams. Applicants should have demonstrated experience with the accountabilities, competencies/behaviors, and skills/experiences mentioned below. ACCOUNTABILITIES: - Coach managers on how to improve and foster their employees performance, as well as how to elevate their own leader skills as they coach their teams. - Show managers how to deliver an effective and consistent employee experience on sensitive matters relating to misconduct, accommodation, and separations. - Pair investigatory and regulatory expertise with empathy, objectivity, and consistency to look into and resolve sensitive concerns including harassment, discrimination, misconduct, and others. - Support partners on a broad range of issues including reorganizations and restructures, while proactively creating, identifying, and sharing related tools and best practices that build partners organizational skills and capabilities. - Understand trends relating to your work, develop actionable insights, identify training opportunities, and identify related policy and process improvements. - Expertly manage and leverage stakeholders to ensure all solutions are aligned with company culture, corporate policies, and the law. - Partner across the organization to make meaningful contributions to ER's priorities focusing on data and analytics, MOP Training, and COE expansion. - Partner with Global ER, Ethics & Compliance, & Workplace Violence Prevention team and consult for complex ER cases - Partner with India and Global Legal to ensure our actions and recommendations are compliant based on internal policies and local laws. - Create ER awareness across the site through resources and build Manager capability to manage ER situations proactively. - MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: - Bachelor's Degree - 10 - 12 yrs. of ER or related HR Experience - Good knowledge of Employment / Labour laws - A solutions mindset. Our ER team identifies solutions that add value, often beyond what is expected. - An objective and critical eye. We maintain an unbiased perspective, challenge assumptions and norms as appropriate, and examine a situation from all sides, helping to identify the best solution and outcome. - Influence. We must successfully influence leaders to act in the best interest for the Organization - Leadership and growth. We integrate leadership behaviors into our work, and help our partners and leaders do the same. - Cool demeanor. Others have remarked at how cool we are. We are counted on to maintain a calm confidence, especially when others are uncertain, stressed, or concerned. We must prioritize competing demands and maintain executional excellence. PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS: - Subject matter expertise in performance management and performance management lifecycle - Consultative, coaching, and action planning skills - Experience investigating and addressing misconduct issues - Ability to anticipate issues, problem solve, and implement solutions, including referring critical issues to the appropriate resource - Strong written and verbal communication skills - Ability to quickly and productively network and establish effective working relationships - Experience leading change initiatives and process improvements a plus