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40Director | HR Business Partners, Employee & Labor Relations
- Location: Fully on-site in Green Bay or La Crosse, WI
Emplify Health is seeking a strategic and collaborative leader to serve as Director, HR Business Partners, Employee and Labor Relations. This role is responsible for aligning human capital strategies with organizational goals while strengthening employee and labor relations across the enterprise. The ideal candidate brings deep HR leadership experience, strong business acumen, and the ability to build trusted partnerships with leaders at all levels.
This leader will guide the HR Business Partner and Employee and Labor Relations team, ensuring the right structure, skills, and support are in place to deliver high-impact service. The Director will work closely with HR Centers of Excellence and operational leaders to address complex people issues, improve engagement and retention, reduce risk, and support a healthy, high-performing culture.
Position Summary
The Director, HR Business Partners, Employee and Labor Relations is a strategic partner accountable for integrating human capital strategies with business objectives. This role proactively assesses organizational effectiveness and talent needs using key metrics, industry trends, and external best practices. The Director also collaborates closely with HR Centers of Excellence to leverage enterprise and regional solutions that support business results.
What you'll do:
- Lead the HR Business Partner and Employee and Labor Relations team across the enterprise, providing knowledgeable guidance and direction
- Ensure team members have the skills, tools, and support needed to succeed, while mentoring and developing staff
- Partner with leadership to develop and implement workforce strategies that support the organization’s mission, vision, and goals
- Promote employee engagement, belonging, and retention through thoughtful HR strategies and leadership support
- Ensure consistent adoption of approved strategies and policies across departments and levels of the organization
- Consult with leaders to provide partnership, guidance, and support for strategic planning and alignment
- Stay informed on trends, best practices, and updates in HR, employee relations, and labor relations
- Participate in forecasting, staffing, onboarding, development, performance management, and succession planning
- Assist with escalated items within the Service Delivery Center
- Mitigate legal risk through proactive training, education, clear processes, and effective handling of employee concerns and investigations
- Maintain current knowledge of relevant laws and regulations and advise leaders on HR-related legal and regulatory matters
- Develop and implement policies and processes related to employee relations, legal compliance, and recordkeeping
- Analyze HR data and report on key metrics to support strategic planning
- Conduct data collection and research to identify gaps, assess organizational performance, and recommend solutions aligned with organizational goals
What you'll nee d:
Education
- Required: Bachelor’s degree in human resources or a related field
- Preferred: Master’s degree in administration or business administration (MBA)
Experience
- Required: 7 to 10 years of HR experience
- Preferred: Operational HR experience and strong business collaboration experience
- Ideal background includes leadership experience in HR or healthcare, such as manager or director-level responsibility
Certification/Registration/Licensure
- None required
Core Leadership Expectations
- Organizational Strategy and Implementation: Recognizes market trends, assesses impact on the area of responsibility, contributes to strategic plans, and ensures alignment and communication
- Fiscal Management: Uses established processes to support accountability, effective operations, and resource management
- Human Resource Management: Selects, develops, motivates, manages, and retains a high-performing team
- Excellence in Service and Quality: Supports quality patient care, safety, patient experience, and customer service through continuous improvement
- Organizational Leadership: Leads through collaboration, supports enterprise initiatives, and models strong partnership across the organization
- Maintains accountability for regulatory requirements
- Serves as a liaison to the community
- Performs additional duties as assigned by the department
Why Emplify Health?
- Benefits Package : We offer a comprehensive benefits package that varies based on your location. To learn more about the specific benefits available in your area, please inquire with the recruiter during the application process.
- Remote Work Opportunity: This position is eligible for hybrid work. However, candidates must be residents of Wisconsin (WI), Iowa (IA), Michigan (MI), or Minnesota (MN) at the time of hire. Candidates will ideally live within a reasonable driving distance to La Crosse or Green Bay, WI.
I f you need assistance with any portion of the application or have questions about the position, please contact HR-Recruitment@gundersenhealth.org or call 608-775-0267.
We inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning and innovating. This is our purpose. Together with our values — belonging, respect, excellence, accountability, teamwork and humility — our pillars set our foundation and our future.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Love + medicine is who we are, it's what we do, it's why people want to work here. If you’re looking for a job to love, apply today.
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40Director | HR Business Partners, Employee & Labor Relations
- Location: Fully on-site in Green Bay or La Crosse, WI
Emplify Health is seeking a strategic and collaborative leader to serve as Director, HR Business Partners, Employee and Labor Relations. This role is responsible for aligning human capital strategies with organizational goals while strengthening employee and labor relations across the enterprise. The ideal candidate brings deep HR leadership experience, strong business acumen, and the ability to build trusted partnerships with leaders at all levels.
This leader will guide the HR Business Partner and Employee and Labor Relations team, ensuring the right structure, skills, and support are in place to deliver high-impact service. The Director will work closely with HR Centers of Excellence and operational leaders to address complex people issues, improve engagement and retention, reduce risk, and support a healthy, high-performing culture.
Position Summary
The Director, HR Business Partners, Employee and Labor Relations is a strategic partner accountable for integrating human capital strategies with business objectives. This role proactively assesses organizational effectiveness and talent needs using key metrics, industry trends, and external best practices. The Director also collaborates closely with HR Centers of Excellence to leverage enterprise and regional solutions that support business results.
What you'll do:
- Lead the HR Business Partner and Employee and Labor Relations team across the enterprise, providing knowledgeable guidance and direction
- Ensure team members have the skills, tools, and support needed to succeed, while mentoring and developing staff
- Partner with leadership to develop and implement workforce strategies that support the organization’s mission, vision, and goals
- Promote employee engagement, belonging, and retention through thoughtful HR strategies and leadership support
- Ensure consistent adoption of approved strategies and policies across departments and levels of the organization
- Consult with leaders to provide partnership, guidance, and support for strategic planning and alignment
- Stay informed on trends, best practices, and updates in HR, employee relations, and labor relations
- Participate in forecasting, staffing, onboarding, development, performance management, and succession planning
- Assist with escalated items within the Service Delivery Center
- Mitigate legal risk through proactive training, education, clear processes, and effective handling of employee concerns and investigations
- Maintain current knowledge of relevant laws and regulations and advise leaders on HR-related legal and regulatory matters
- Develop and implement policies and processes related to employee relations, legal compliance, and recordkeeping
- Analyze HR data and report on key metrics to support strategic planning
- Conduct data collection and research to identify gaps, assess organizational performance, and recommend solutions aligned with organizational goals
What you'll nee d:
Education
- Required: Bachelor’s degree in human resources or a related field
- Preferred: Master’s degree in administration or business administration (MBA)
Experience
- Required: 7 to 10 years of HR experience
- Preferred: Operational HR experience and strong business collaboration experience
- Ideal background includes leadership experience in HR or healthcare, such as manager or director-level responsibility
Certification/Registration/Licensure
- None required
Core Leadership Expectations
- Organizational Strategy and Implementation: Recognizes market trends, assesses impact on the area of responsibility, contributes to strategic plans, and ensures alignment and communication
- Fiscal Management: Uses established processes to support accountability, effective operations, and resource management
- Human Resource Management: Selects, develops, motivates, manages, and retains a high-performing team
- Excellence in Service and Quality: Supports quality patient care, safety, patient experience, and customer service through continuous improvement
- Organizational Leadership: Leads through collaboration, supports enterprise initiatives, and models strong partnership across the organization
- Maintains accountability for regulatory requirements
- Serves as a liaison to the community
- Performs additional duties as assigned by the department
Why Emplify Health?
- Benefits Package : We offer a comprehensive benefits package that varies based on your location. To learn more about the specific benefits available in your area, please inquire with the recruiter during the application process.
- Remote Work Opportunity: This position is eligible for hybrid work. However, candidates must be residents of Wisconsin (WI), Iowa (IA), Michigan (MI), or Minnesota (MN) at the time of hire. Candidates will ideally live within a reasonable driving distance to La Crosse or Green Bay, WI.
I f you need assistance with any portion of the application or have questions about the position, please contact HR-Recruitment@gundersenhealth.org or call 608-775-0267.
We inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning and innovating. This is our purpose. Together with our values — belonging, respect, excellence, accountability, teamwork and humility — our pillars set our foundation and our future.
Equal Opportunity Employer
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in employee relations partner jobs.
- Three or more years of experience handling workplace investigations and employee complaints
- Deep working knowledge of employment law including Title VII, ADA, FMLA, and NLRA
- Experience advising managers on corrective action, performance management, and terminations
- PHR, SPHR, or SHRM-CP certification preferred or required by many employers
- Proficiency with HRIS platforms and case management tools to track and document ER cases
- Bachelor's degree in human resources, labor relations, business, or a related field
Tips for Your Employee Relations Partner Job Search
Tailor your resume to investigations
Employee relations partners who document workplace investigation experience get more callbacks. Describe the type and complexity of cases you handled, your process for gathering evidence, and how you reached conclusions, without naming individuals or companies involved.
Highlight your policy and compliance work
Employers want to see that you've drafted or revised HR policies, not just enforced them. Call out the specific policies you owned, whether you aligned them to federal or state regulations, and what changed as a result of your work.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists employee relations partner openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target companies by union presence
Some employee relations partner roles require union-side experience, while others specifically want non-union backgrounds. Read each job description carefully and match your resume language to whether the employer is in a unionized environment or actively working to remain union-free.
Prepare for scenario-based interview questions
Interviewers for this role almost always give behavioral prompts about managing a difficult employee situation, an escalating conflict, or a manager who ignored a complaint. Practice walking through your decision-making process, not just the outcome, in a clear, structured way.
Negotiate using total compensation context
Employee relations partners often move between industries where compensation structures differ significantly. Before your negotiation conversation, research the going rate for the specific industry and company size you're targeting, and anchor your ask to the scope of the role.
Employee Relations Partner Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most employee relations partners?
The companies hiring the most employee relations partners right now include AXIOM, Intuit, and Tessera, with the largest share of openings in Washington, California, and Ohio, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Healthcare systems, large retailers, and financial institutions consistently post the highest volume of these roles.
How many employee relations partner jobs are remote?
About 100% of employee relations partner openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though the share varies by industry and company size. Roles focused on policy work, compliance review, and case documentation tend to be the most flexible, while positions that involve on-site investigations or direct manager coaching are more likely to require a physical presence.
How do you become an employee relations partner?
Most employee relations partners start in a generalist HR role, then move into specialist work by taking on employee complaints, performance management cases, or leave of absence administration. Building a foundation in employment law is essential, so pursuing a PHR or SHRM-CP certification strengthens your candidacy. From there, seek out HR business partner or HR specialist roles that give you direct ER casework before applying to dedicated employee relations partner positions.
How do you get hired as an employee relations partner with little experience?
Start by targeting HR coordinator or generalist roles at companies with active ER functions, where you can volunteer to assist with investigations or policy drafting. Completing a PHR or SHRM-CP certification signals commitment to the specialty. When applying, emphasize any experience with conflict resolution, disciplinary documentation, or compliance projects, even if those weren't your primary responsibilities, since employers weight demonstrated judgment over years on a job title.
What does the employee relations partner interview process look like?
The process typically starts with a recruiter screen focused on your ER caseload and employment law knowledge, followed by a panel interview with HR leadership and sometimes a business unit manager. Expect at least one scenario-based exercise where you walk through how you would handle a specific complaint or termination situation. Some employers add a written assessment or case study that tests your ability to document findings and recommend a course of action clearly and defensibly.
Where can I find and apply to employee relations partner jobs?
You can find and apply to employee relations partner jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your experience level, industry background, and preferred location, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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