HR Consultant Senior - Office

Office

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, ensuring food safety, or helping find cures for cancer.

The Senior Manager, HR is responsible for developing industrial relations strategies at a large manufacturing site. Reporting to the HR Director, the role ensures constructive relationships with unions, works councils, and employee representatives while supporting business continuity, operational excellence, and workforce engagement.
This role is a key advisor to site leadership on labor and employee relations, ensuring alignment with company policies, labor strategy, and business objectives.

Industrial & Labor Relations

• Manage collective bargaining and local labor agreements.
• Handle complex labor disputes, grievances, and disciplinary cases.
• Ensure compliance with labor laws, agreements, and company policies.

• Advise managers on HR matters and operational needs.
• Support workforce planning, organizational changes, and change management initiatives.

• Support succession planning, leadership pipelines, and talent alignment.
• Ensure consistent HR policies and procedures across the site.

• Lead labor relations aspects of restructurings, shift models, and efficiency initiatives.
• Partner with Legal on high-risk or complex cases.

• Develop HR capability in industrial and employee relations.
• University degree in HR, Law, Industrial Relations, or related fields.
• Extensive industrial and employee relations experience in manufacturing/industrial environments.
• Proven track record managing unionized workplaces and complex negotiations.
• Knowledge of labor law and industrial relations practices.
• Strong negotiation, conflict resolution, and stakeholder management skills.
• Project and change management capabilities.

• Italian: native or fluent
• English: fluent