Roquette is a family-owned global leader in plant-based ingredients and a leading provider of pharmaceutical excipients.
Want to help us make a difference?
Using plant-based resources, we collaborate with our customers and partners to imagine and offer ingredients to better feed people and treat patients.
Each of our ingredients responds to unique and essential needs, and they enable healthier lifestyles.
To meet our challenges we are looking for a ER Manager within the HR team to be based at our Pantnagar unit.
Purpose
The Employee Relations Manager is accountable for maintaining harmonious industrial and employee relations, ensuring statutory compliance, managing union interactions, handling grievance redressal, disciplinary actions and fostering a positive work environment that supports business objectives and workforce productivity.
Their Mission: Positions in HR are at the crossroads of all the functions of our company with the wonderful challenge of synchronizing all functions so that operations are ongoing smoothly. Ready to challenge your strong leadership in an innovative environment?
Your experience and talents will make the difference to:
•Maintain healthy relationships with unions, workmen, and employee representatives.
•Lead collective bargaining discussions and wage settlement negotiations.
•Coordinate long-term settlements (LTS), MOUs, and productivity agreements.
•Prevent and manage industrial disputes and disciplinary issues with proactive ressolution.
•Liaise with labour authorities, government agencies, and external stakeholders.
•Develop and implement employee engagement and communication initiatives.
•Drive grievance handling mechanisms and ensure timely resolution.
•Conduct employee counselling and conflict resolution sessions.
•Promote a positive workplace culture and employee well-being.
•Ensure compliance with applicable labour laws including the four new labour codes
•Coordinate labour inspections/ authorities and statutory audits.
•Maintain legal records, registers, and documentation.
•Manage disciplinary cases, domestic inquiries, and misconduct investigations.
•Draft charge sheets, warning letters, suspension orders, and inquiry reports.
•Ensure disciplinary actions are legally compliant and procedurally fair.
•Monitor contractor compliance and workforce deployment.
•Ensure adherence to labour law requirements by contractors.
•Review contractor licenses, statutory records, and wage payment
•Organize town halls, employee meetings, and communication forums.
•Support employee recognition and welfare initiatives.
•Monitor employee morale and recommend improvement actions.
•Prepare monthly ER and IR dashboards.
•Track absenteeism, attrition, disciplinary cases, grievances, and union issues.
•Analyze trends and recommend proactive actions.
What we will love about you :
To maintain a positive and productive work environment by fostering strong employee-management relationships, resolving workplace concerns effectively, ensuring compliance with employment laws and company policies, and driving employee engagement initiatives that support organizational success.
And also …
Educational Qualification: MSW/MBA/PGDM OR Equivalent in Human Resource, Industrial Relations OR Labour Welfare
•Degree/Diploma in Labour Laws/Law preferred.
Desired Experience: 12-15+ years in manufacturing environment
Internal Stakeholders: Plant Employees/Union, Supervisors & Managers
External Stakeholders: Labour Authorities, Legal Counsel
Managerial Skills- Good Interpersonal Skills.
Leadership Competencies -Ability to deal with plant people, Supervisors, Line Managers & good in teamwork
•Act as a valuable team player
•Drive for Quality and excellence
•Discipline and compliance
•Make decisions with speed and determination
Key Technical /Functional Competencies:
•Industrial Relations Management , Labour Laws & Statutory Compliances
•Collective Bargaining & Negotiation Skills
•Conflict Resolution, Stakeholder Management
•Investigation,…