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• Own the global employment relations and employment compliance agenda across all countries and U.S. states in scope, serving as the senior subject matter expert and escalation point for complex matters.
• Provide hands-on advice and case leadership on complex employee relations matters, including performance, conduct, grievances, investigations, terminations, protected leave, accommodations, and other sensitive employment issues.
• Monitor changes in employment legislation and regulatory requirements across jurisdictions and translate them into clear, actionable requirements for People policies, processes, contracts, and manager practices.
• Lead the development, implementation, and ongoing governance of global employment policies, standards, playbooks, and compliance frameworks, balancing global consistency with local legal requirements.
• Advise on organizational restructurings, reductions in force, workforce transitions, acquisitions, integrations, and other business transformations, ensuring legally compliant and well-governed execution across jurisdictions.
• Lead or oversee sensitive workplace investigations and ensure consistent standards for case assessment, documentation, decision-making, confidentiality, and remediation.
• Partner closely with Legal and external employment counsel on high-risk or precedent-setting matters, litigation and claims, regulatory inquiries, and interpretation of complex employment law requirements.
• Provide expert guidance on employee representative matters, including works councils, consultation obligations, collective processes, and union-related requirements where applicable.
• Identify employment compliance and employee relations risks proactively, establish appropriate controls and escalation mechanisms, and drive mitigation actions across the global People organization.
• Build global manager and HR capability through training, practical toolkits, coaching, and knowledge sharing on employment relations, investigations, documentation, and compliant decision-making.
• Establish meaningful employment relations and compliance metrics, case trends, and risk reporting to support senior leadership decision-making and continuous improvement.
• Manage relationships with external employment counsel and specialist providers, including appropriate governance of quality, responsiveness, risk, and cost.

• Extensive hands-on experience in a senior employment relations, employment law, HR compliance, or comparable role within a complex multinational organization.
• Demonstrated experience personally advising on employment matters across multiple countries and legal systems; experience spanning NAM, EMEA, and APAC is strongly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of employment law and employee relations principles, with the ability to quickly assess unfamiliar jurisdictions and determine when specialist local advice is required.
• Proven experience handling complex and sensitive employee relations matters, workplace investigations, terminations, restructurings, consultation processes, and employment-related risk.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex legal and regulatory requirements into practical, scalable policies, processes, guidance, and business decisions.
• Experience establishing global governance, compliance frameworks, case-management standards, risk controls, and employment-law change processes across multiple jurisdictions.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with credibility to advise senior executives, HR leaders, managers, and cross-functional partners in high-stakes situations.
• Comfort operating as both a strategic global leader and a hands-on practitioner, including direct involvement in complex cases and detailed country-specific issues when required.
• Experience managing and collaborating effectively with external employment counsel and specialist advisors across multiple countries.
• Law degree and relevant legal qualification are strongly preferred; alternatively, extensive equivalent experience from comparable multi-country employment relations and compliance roles is required.
• Fluent in English with excellent written and verbal communication skills; additional languages relevant to AutoStore's international footprint are an advantage.

• A Collaborative and Inclusive Culture where we celebrate and value everyone’s contributions, encouraging diverse perspectives in decision-making.
• Work-Life Balance & Well-being: We offer 1 hour per week of paid exercise, prioritizing your mental and physical well-being.
• A Creative and Safe Workplace by joining a company experiencing rapid growth, with the stability of being Norway’s first unicorn listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange.
• International and Supportive Environment within a Norwegian multinational that values collaboration and innovation.

We believe that following a defined and structured recruitment process will ensure that we have a fair and equal process for all candidates.

This role can be based in Norway, France, Germany, or the United Kingdom, preferably within commuting distance of one of AutoStore's office locations.

• Norway: Oslo, Stavanger, or our headquarters in Nedre Vats
• France: Lyon
• Germany: Ulm, Berlin, or Hamburg
• United Kingdom: Nottingham

Application deadline: September 1, 2026.

AutoStore does not accept agency resumes or assistance for this role.

AutoStore is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

AutoStore, founded 1996, is a warehouse robot technology company that invented and continues to pioneer cube storage automation, the densest order-fulfillment solution in existence. Our focus is to marry software and hardware with human abilities to create the future of warehousing. We are a value driven organization, with our people being our most important asset. Lean, Bold, and Transparent manifest itself in everything we do, and are pushing borders to increase efficiency, safety and develop new products for our customers. AutoStore was born out of the great idea for storing goods like Rubik's Cube, instead of Dominos. We are now looking for talent that share our values and curiousity for new technology and development