Employee Relations Advisor

**Job Mission **:**ASML’s Employee Relations office is a new global Center of Expertise, currently being built up, which aims to help champion ASML’s values for a safe, ethical, and inclusive workplace and ensure consistent and fair treatment. Working closely with already established local ER teams across the globe as well as our Ethics Office, the focus will be on providing impartial consultation, advice and expertise to Employees, Leaders and Human Resources regarding Employee Relations. This can be for example related to workplace collaboration or help solve (potential) disputes regarding fair & equal treatment. Purpose is to foster positive relationships between employees, managers and the organization and establish a Workplace that Works for All.**

**We are seeking for a personable, adaptable, impartial and credible Employee Relations advisor to join the new ER team. Since we are still in the phase of scoping and shaping the new Global function, initial activities will be a mix of learning-by-doing from activities that are already brought to ER combined with scoping & shaping the new Global function in close collaboration with various stakeholders throughout the organization. We are looking for an experienced ER/HR professional who flourishes in an undefined, ambiguous playing field and is versatile taking on different activities: from process design to case resolution, and from employee listening to skill building delivery. As part of the small Global ER team, you will help setting up the new function and related activities, from a Global perspective as well as NL specifically.**

**Key areas of responsibility**:
**- **Work with Global and local ER colleagues to bring the new Global ER function to live. Collect and analyze ER related data points. Drive improvements and interventions that foster positive relationships. This includes feedback on (the deployment of) people policies, practices and tools, both in and outside HR.**
- **Offer ER consultation and counseling to Employees, Leaders and HR. This includes involvement in individual as well as team related ER matters. Perform proper triage, conduct independent assessment and provide impartial yet authoritative advice to enable the implementation of sustainable, embedded solutions. Give unsolicited feedback that (indirectly) leads to desired behavioral and cultural changes. Discreetly handle sensitive and/or private information.**
- **Support awareness and skill building initiatives in the field of ER and connect it to available existing initiatives. Develop new interventions and deployment materials in collaboration with global and local expertise teams and take a leading role in deployment.**
**Education and Experience**:
**- **Bachelor or Master’s degree (or equivalent combination of education and/or experience) in Human Resources.**
- **At least 8-10 years work experience in HR with extensive involvement in employee relations matters. Proven credible sparring partner for senior employees/ leaders and senior HR colleagues in the field of workplace behavior. Experience in ASML or semicon related context is considered as an advantage.**
- **Thorough understanding of People-, HR- and compliance related (ASML) policies and practices as well as employment law and other regulations to provide guidance or clarification for ER matters.**
- **Experience in developing and implementing new people practices and related deployment/training/onboarding materials.**
- **Understanding of conflict resolution techniques and/or employee engagement techniques is considered as an advantage.**
**Skills & Competencies**:
- **Combines genuine curiosity with a learning and problem solving mindset. Helps self and others to seek to understand first and go to the heart of issues. Bring structure, identify underlying needs, learn from success & failure, and provide feedback for structural solutions that balance the interests of all parties involved.**
- **Excellent communication skills both verbal and written to converse with various types of people from multiple backgrounds and seniority levels. Tailors communication content and style to the needs of others. Models and ensures cross-cultural sensitivity.**
- **Excellent interpersonal savviness and consulting abilities to manage the relation with stakeholders on various levels, roles and with sometimes opposing interests. Able to quickly build high levels of professional credibility and trust. Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations.**
- **Demonstrated ability to remain impartial, tactful, calm, persuasive and maintain confidentiality in controversial and/or confrontational situations. Proven abilities in the field of conflict resolution to handle these situations effectively, with a minimum of noise. Swiftly addresses ineffective behaviors and gives guidance on how to handle these situations more successfully.**
- **Negotiates skillfully. Uses compelling arguments