At Mitel, you will have the opportunity to help businesses connect, collaborate and provide better experiences for our customers. You will deliver valuable contributions in creating business success within our global organization utilizing your unique attributes, skills and experience.
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About Mitel:
Mitel is a global market leader in business communications, powering more than two billion connections every day. With customers in over 100 countries, we help organizations modernize their communications, strengthen collaboration, and deliver exceptional experiences. Our culture is built on innovation, integrity, and empowering our people to do their best work. At Mitel, you’ll join a team that values trust, encourages fresh thinking, and embraces diverse perspectives to drive meaningful impact.
Overview:
Help shape how a global communications leader works with its employee representatives. As Senior Labor Relations Lead, DACH, you will become part of our DACH People & Culture team and drive Mitel’s labor relations strategy, with a primary focus on Germany and additional support for Austria and Switzerland. You will lead negotiations with employee representative bodies in an environment of strong co-determination, advise senior leaders on co-determination, organizational change, and labor relations risk, and work closely with the business, Legal, and external counsel to balance business objectives with legal and employee representation requirements.
Responsibilities:
Be Mitel’s go-to labor relations expert for Germany, with additional support across DACH, creating alignment across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland while respecting each country’s legal framework.
Shape forward-looking labor relations strategies that drive our business goals and meet labor law, co-determination, and employee representation requirements.
Negotiate works agreements, organizational changes, restructuring programs, workforce measures, and social plans that work for the business and its people.
Build trust-based relationships with works councils and other employee representative bodies, and navigate sensitive discussions with confidence.
Advise senior leaders on labor relations and co-determination, spot risks early, resolve critical issues with tailored mitigation strategies, and build these perspectives into business initiatives from day one.
Partner with Legal, People & Culture, and business leaders on transformation, steer external counsel for effective, cost-efficient support, and provide expert guidance on complex employee relations matters.
Requirements:
You bring 5+ years of labor relations experience in Germany, ideally complemented by knowledge of Austria and/or Switzerland.
You have deep, practical knowledge of German labor law and co-determination.
You have a proven track record of leading complex negotiations with works councils and other employee representative bodies, including works agreements and social plans.
You have extensive experience supporting transformation, restructuring, and organizational change.
You enjoy partnering closely with the business and Legal, and know how to manage external counsel effectively.
You are a convincing negotiator and communicator with strong stakeholder management and conflict resolution skills, able to influence senior leaders.
You take ownership of business-critical matters, combining strategic thinking, sound judgment, and discretion.
You hold a relevant university degree or have equivalent professional experience.
You are fluent in both German and English.
Ideally, you have worked in a collectively bargained industrial or…