We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 2 Sep 2025

 

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

The Senior Employee Relations (ER) Partner is responsible for building strong relationships between employees and managers. The role takes a proactive, strategic approach to employee relations by identifying higher-level employee relations trends, recommending solutions that address root cause of issue, and partnering with leadership on execution. The role acts as a key partner to the site level Managers in driving employee relations strategies, while maintaining a neutral position. A key component of the role includes maintaining the employee relations function at assigned locations/functions, and following established ELR processes, as well as building manager skill sets.

The Sr. ER Partner works directly with leaders, managers and employees to provide advice and coach both parties on all employee relations issues. The role provides strong partnership on performance management, disciplinary processes, legal issues, investigations, conflict management, etc. Work involves assessing and resolving employee relations matters ensuring consistency across client groups and alignment with Medtronic practices. The role helps to ensure a fair and consistent approach to Medtronic's policies and procedures, thus promoting a positive culture within the business, while minimizing risks. The partner provides a single point of contact for employee relation issues to ensure clear communication and efficiency in resolving matters. The role requires skill, tact, persuasion, judgment, and/or negotiation skills to accomplish objectives.

This role works closely with the in-house legal team, Human Resources Business Partners, and with the wider Human Resources community and clients to deliver a fair, consistent ER service, both minimizing risk to the business and aligning work to meet business needs.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. 

This is a US based role that will be onsite in Minneapolis, MN or Boulder, CO.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Provides assigned client group with strong partnership on employee relations matters, identifying trends, recommending solutions, building skill sets, and driving proactive change in the organization. Partners on efforts around building manager ER skill sets to maximize talent.
• Recommendations proactive employee relations strategies and solutions to progress development of the employee relations function. 
• Analyzes trends in employment practices and recommends appropriate proactive action and training opportunities.
• Effective case management of people related issues such as: ER issues, disciplinaries, performance management, and investigations.  
• Provides counsel and facilitates prompt and effective resolution of workplace conflict to address issues for employees, managers, and leaders in a manner consistent with Medtronic policies, practices and legal considerations. Utilizes various conflict management techniques, including training, mediation, conflict coaching, etc.
• Consults and coaches managers/leaders on employee relations, performance management, reorganization/reduction, and organizational effectiveness issues spanning all levels within the organization for assigned locations/functions.  Provides advice and counsel to managers and leaders regarding personnel practices, policy, and employment laws.
• Partners with Legal in conducting investigations, researches policies/practices, creates and gathers documentation, makes determinations and implements resolutions when applicable.  Identifies best practices and learning lessons to influence change and improvement in the organization.
• Proactively reduces Employee Relations related risk through risk assessments and actionable feedback. Conduct training and coaching of managers on skills and techniques.
• Develops effective relationships with the business to promote good employee relations across the organization.
• Interacts with HR Business Partners, and other HR functions, to ensure a high level of employee satisfaction & engagement and appropriately plans, facilitates and monitors Employee Programs
• Utilizes data to analyze and give visibi