Workforce Relations Lead Consultant

Workforce Relations Lead Consultant

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

The Workforce Relations Lead Consultant provides expert guidance on complex workforce relations matters, ensuring compliance with employment laws and organizational policies to drive a positive, high-performing workplace culture. This role independently investigates complex allegations of discrimination and harassment while also advising and influencing leaders, agents, and employees to resolve complex workplace conflicts. This role serves as a trusted advisor within the organization, addressing critical workforce relations issues and initiatives. Additionally, this role partners with Organizational Talent Advisors (OTAs) and HR's Centers of Excellence (COEs) as subject matter experts, representing the workforce relations function, for HR programs and products. This role may also serve as a primary point of contact for Workforce Transition processes from the initial coaching and counseling of potential business case submissions to executing written employee notifications. This role is responsible for training, leading critical programs, and designing and implementing special projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Independently manage a large volume of complex workforce relations cases including, but not limited to, investigations of harassment, discrimination, inappropriate conduct, and performance management concerns, with adherence to communicated documentation expectations and service level agreements (SLAs).
• Provide expert consultation to leaders, agents, and employees on a wide range of complex workforce relations issues, including performance management, conflict resolution, and workplace investigations.
• Advise on and support disciplinary actions, terminations, and other employment decisions to ensure consistency and fairness in alignment with local, federal, and international laws and company policies and practices.
• Collaborate with legal, OTAs, and HR COEs to assess and mitigate risks associated with complex workforce relations matters.
• Analyze employee relations trends and provide recommendations on complex workforce relations matters to drive a high-performing workplace culture.
• Utilize evidence-based communication / storytelling to advise resolution of complex workforce relation matters by presenting data-driven recommendations for all audiences.
• Support organizational change initiatives by owning the workforce transition process, providing insights and guidance on employee transitions and impacts.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Education and Experience

Certifications, Licenses, Registrations

Functional Skills

Skills : Communication, Conflict Resolution, Process Improvements, Relationship Management, SLAs, Workplace Investigations, Workplace Relations

Compensation offered for this role is $76,200.00 - 134,550.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.

Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component.