Carex is partnering with a Healthcare industry partner to hire a Labor Relations Consultant. This role will lead the strategic planning, coordination, execution, and implementation of labor relations initiatives while supporting the establishment and development of a Labor Relations function.
The ideal candidate brings strong labor relations expertise combined with experience supporting employee relations, workforce transformation, compliance programs, collective bargaining preparation, union preparedness, or other complex workforce initiatives. Experience may come from healthcare, hospitality, or other industries with large, distributed, or highly regulated workforces where employee engagement, workforce trends, and labor risk are key areas of focus.
Success in this role requires the ability to translate strategic priorities into actionable plans, identify and mitigate risk, leverage workforce data to identify trends and leading indicators, produce executive-ready reporting, and create repeatable processes that can transition effectively to a permanent Labor Relations team.
Location: Remote
Duration: Contract-to-hire
What You’ll Do
- Lead comprehensive Labor Relations initiatives, including strategic plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, risks, and deliverables.
- Build and maintain a master implementation roadmap across multiple labor-related workstreams, ensuring projects remain on schedule and within scope.
- Establish project management discipline, governance processes, and accountability mechanisms for the developing Labor Relations function.
- Facilitate governance meetings, working sessions, steering committee discussions, and stakeholder meetings while maintaining clear action-item ownership and follow-through.
- Develop executive-level dashboards, status reports, steering committee updates, and other reporting mechanisms to communicate progress, risks, priorities, trends, and decisions.
- Develop and maintain Power BI dashboards or similar reporting tools to identify workforce trends and leading indicators related to employee engagement, employee relations concerns, labor activity, and organizational risk.
- Analyze workforce data across offices, states, business units, and employee populations to identify patterns, emerging risks, and opportunities for proactive intervention.
- Identify, organize, and integrate relevant internal and external data sources to support labor-related reporting, workforce analytics, and informed decision-making.
- Translate complex workforce and labor data into clear, actionable insights for executive and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Support the implementation of labor relations operating models, policies, procedures, playbooks, toolkits, and organizational resources.
- Coordinate labor readiness and union preparedness initiatives across HR, Employee Relations, Legal, Operations, Communications, Compliance, and business leadership.
- Support labor risk assessment and issue escalation processes, including maintaining risk logs, identifying leading indicators, and recommending mitigation strategies.
- Monitor labor-related trends, organizational readiness indicators, employee engagement signals, regulatory and legislative developments, and other factors that may affect labor initiatives.
- Develop and maintain labor relations dashboards, project trackers, readiness metrics, workforce analytics, and reporting tools.
- Coordinate labor relations training programs, leadership readiness activities, and manager education resources; some travel may be required to support training and readiness efforts.
- Partner with Communications and key stakeholders on change management initiatives, communication plans, rollout schedules, and implementation activities.
- Monitor adoption and effectiveness of labor relations processes, programs, tools, training initiatives, and employee engagement strategies.
- Create and maintain project documentation, governance records, implementation materials, meeting materials, decision logs, and audit-ready records.
- Document standard operating procedures, workflows, repeatable processes, and knowledge management resources for the developing function.
- Maintain organized document repositories to ensure critical materials and deliverables are accessible and transferable.
- Develop knowledge transfer and transition plans to support the permanent Labor Relations team.
- Drive cross-functional alignment on priorities, deliverables, implementation requirements, data insights, and decision-making while ensuring consistency across labor-related initiatives.
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Human Resources, Organizational Development, Public Administration, Data Analytics, or a related field.
- 5+ years of progressive experience supporting labor relations, employee relations, workforce transformation, labor compliance, collective bargaining, union preparedness, or related workforce initiatives.
- Experience developing Power BI dashboards or comparable business intelligence and reporting solutions.
- Experience in healthcare, hospitality, behavioral health, or another highly regulated or workforce-intensive industry preferred.
- Strong expertise in project planning, program implementation, governance, risk management, issue management, and stakeholder engagement.
- Experience coordinating labor readiness or union preparedness initiatives, preferably within a unionized environment.
- Strong data analytics capabilities, including the ability to identify workforce trends, leading indicators, employee relations risks, and engagement patterns from multiple data sources.
- Ability to translate workforce data and analytics into practical recommendations and executive-level insights.
- Ability to establish structure, accountability, and sustainable project management practices within a developing or evolving function.
- Experience developing executive-ready dashboards, status reports, governance materials, and decision-support reporting.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify, organize, integrate, and interpret internal and external data to support decision-making.
- Exceptional organizational, documentation, and knowledge management capabilities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with executive and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office, collaboration platforms, project management tools, and data visualization or business intelligence platforms.
- Experience supporting executive governance, steering committees, and large-scale organizational change initiatives preferred.
Carex Consulting Group is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.
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