Senior Employee Relations Partner

Available Locations: Lisbon, Portugal or London, England

About the role

We want to find the best people to join our team and then help you to do your best work. The Employee Relations Team is a new Center of Excellence within the People Team, with the mission to ensure our organization’s treatment of every employee is fair, respectful, and consistent with our Cloudflare Capabilities. To support that mission, you will be a trusted partner across the organization. You will guide leaders through complex performance management situations and conduct objective investigations when issues arise. Looking at the bigger picture, you will use insights from this work to identify trends, address root causes, and build programs that holistically improve the employee experience at Cloudflare.

In this role, you will report to the Senior Director, Employee Relations and support our People Team Business Partners (PTBPs). You will be partnering with key stakeholders across Cloudflare in various ways, including those listed below:

What you'll do

• Operate as a trusted advisor, consulting with PTBPs and senior business leaders on complex organizational issues and challenging assumptions to create solutions that solve business problems.


• Conduct complex and thorough investigations into employee relations matters, providing fair and objective recommendations for resolution.


• Adhere to service level agreements for timely response and follow up to issues, including appropriate use of the case management system, effective and thorough documentation and reporting, and all associated processes.


• Build, analyze, and maintain ER metrics and present data to People Team partners on a quarterly basis.


• Conduct in-depth root cause analysis of ER trends, presenting data-driven stories in business language to influence talent decisions and advise on the productivity impact of attrition.


• Provide advice and guidance to managers in assigned business units to address employee performance issues, including the administration of the PIP or Package process.


• Partner with the Learning and Development Team to develop training workshops/classes/toolkits for leaders.


• Assist with the updating of Company policies and responding to inquiries and concerns.


• Lead and coordinate major global ER projects, requiring significant analysis and the development of innovative solutions that have a broad impact on the ER model and company policy.


• Partner cross-functionally with key stakeholders, including Legal Compliance, Payroll, Benefits, and other departments to resolve employee issues in a timely manner.

Who you are:

• You have served on a People/HR team for a minimum of 8 years, 6 of which have been in an Employee Relations capacity.


• You are motivated by cultivating company culture, building great businesses and helping people do their best work.


• You possess strong knowledge of pertinent employment laws, as well as People Team management principles, practices and procedures.


• You have outstanding judgment and the ability to balance the needs of the company, managers and employees.


• You have a successful history of developing strong relationships and operating effectively through virtual support and in a distributed environment.


• You approach challenges with a solution-focused mindset, viewing obstacles as opportunities for improvement and growth.


• You have experience designing and leading change strategies for complex initiatives, partnering with stakeholders to co-create solutions and ensure buy-in.


• You are strategic, have a keen business acumen, and a track record of partnering closely with business leaders. You can articulate how People Teams bring value to an organization.


• You are a trusted partner who leads with empathy, building strong relationships through exceptional written and verbal communication. Your high emotional intelligence allows you to navigate sensitive situations with understanding and professionalism..


• You devote time and attention to supporting our employees, fostering strong relationships and sustaining the trust placed in you.


• You uphold the highest standards of integrity, communicating honestly, treating others with respect, and leading with dignity.