Manager, Employee & Labour Relations – France & Belgium / Responsable Relations Individuelles Et Sociales – France & Belgique

Visa Visa · Fintech · Paris, France, France

This role is for a Manager of Employee & Labour Relations for France & Belgium at Visa. The primary responsibilities include end-to-end case management for individual employee relations matters such as disciplinary processes, investigations, and terminations, ensuring legal soundness and procedural rigor in a highly regulated environment. The role also supports labor relations execution, manager capability building, and local L&D activities within a complex international matrix organization. Key activities involve conducting investigations, contributing to risk assessments, supporting union negotiation processes, coaching managers, and managing litigation and GDPR matters related to employee relations.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage employee relations cases end-to-end across a broad range of complexity, including disciplinary processes, internal investigations, terminations, and litigation/pre-litigation matters
  2. Establish and manage compliant investigation frameworks (neutrality, confidentiality, prevention of retaliation)
  3. Contribute to the assessment of legal, financial and reputational risks associated with employee relations matters
  4. Support the preparation and execution of union negotiation processes (e.g. NAO, QVCT, gender equality)
  5. Advise and coach managers on employee relations matters, ensuring fairness, consistency, appropriate documentation, and alignment with legal requirements

Skills

Required

  • Employee relations case management
  • Internal investigations
  • Labour relations
  • Legal compliance
  • Risk assessment
  • Manager coaching
  • Litigation support
  • GDPR knowledge
  • Employment law
  • Stakeholder management
  • Matrix organization navigation

Nice to have

  • French legal requirements
  • French labor law
  • Belgian labor law
  • Experience in a complex international matrix organization
  • Experience with union negotiation processes
  • Experience with Works Council (CSE) consultations

What the JD emphasized

  • highly regulated environment
  • strict procedural compliance
  • legally defensible case files
  • compliant investigation frameworks
  • legal, financial and reputational risks
  • union negotiation processes
  • legal requirements
  • litigation and pre-litigation matters
  • data privacy (GDPR) matters
  • employment law watch
  • local legal requirements
  • local regulatory constraints