Vice President, Global Employee Relations Operations Lead

About this role The Global Employee Relations Operations Lead is responsible for the end-to-end execution, optimization, and governance of employee termination, and offboarding processes across the organization. This role ensures that voluntary and involuntary separations are handled consistently, compliantly, and with care—balancing employee experience, business needs, and risk.    As a key partner to Employee Relations, Legal, and HR Business Partners, this role drives operational excellence, process standardization, and continuous improvement across all termination and offboarding activities globally. Due to the high-risk nature of this work, the role requires an elevated sense of discretion, confidentiality, urgency, accuracy, and sound judgement.    Key Responsibilities:  Global Process Ownership & Optimization  Own and continuously improve global termination and offboarding processes for both voluntary and involuntary leavers.  Lead the design of scalable, standardized workflows that ensure consistency, compliance, and operational efficiency across regions.  Maintain clear process documentation, playbooks, and escalation paths.  Technology & Enablement  Identify and drive opportunities to maximize technology, including automation and AI, to streamline processes, and improve stakeholder and employee experience.  Drive adoption of digital solutions that improve efficiency, accuracy, and employee experience.  Own agenda of technology enhancements, including tooling for core processes, and restructuring activities.  Stakeholder Partnership & Leadership  Act as a trusted operational partner to ER, HRBPs, Legal, and HR leaders globally.  Provide guidance, education, and enablement to HR partners on termination and offboarding processes.  Demonstrated ability to proactively support stakeholders by quickly connecting dots and proposing creative solutions when needed.  Lead and mentor a global team of HR Operations professionals supporting exit and offboarding operations.  Termination & Offboarding Execution  Oversee the operational execution of all termination and offboarding activities, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and adherence to policy.  Partner effectively across teams to support involuntary separations, restructurings, and sensitive exits.  Use data and insights to inform continuous improvement and risk mitigation initiatives, monitoring quality and capacity across all processes.  Partner effectively to mitigate risk and ensure appropriate controls, approvals, and documentation are in place.  Directly manage complex or high-risk cases as needed.     Required Qualifications:  8+ years of experience in People Operations, Employee Relations Operations, or HR Operations, in a global environment.  Experience working closely with Legal and ER teams in highly regulated environments.  Proven ability to design and scale operational processes in complex organizations.  Demonstrated experience leading and developing a global team.  Exceptional stakeholder management and collaboration skills.  Strong analytical skills with experience using data to drive decisions and improvements.    What Success Looks Like:  Exit and termination processes are consistent, compliant, and efficient, and digitally enabled through scalable solutions.  Stakeholders experience clear ownership, strong partnership, and reliable execution.  Risks are proactively identified and mitigated through strong governance and controls.  
For Wilmington, DE Only the salary range for this position is USD$110,000.00 - USD$155,000.00 . Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance. Our benefits To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about. Our hybrid work model BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock. About BlackRock At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being.  Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress. This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive. For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock BlackRock is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. View the EEOC’s Know Your Rights poster and its supplement and the pay transparency statement.   BlackRock is committed to full inclusion of all qualified individuals and to providing reasonable accommodations or job modifications for individuals with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation/adjustments are needed throughout the employment process, please email Disability.Assistance@blackrock.com. All requests are treated in line with our privacy policy. BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.