Position Summary
TD SYNNEX is seeking a senior leader to serve as the founding architect of a modern, global Employee Relations function operating at the intersection of employment law, enterprise risk management, and organizational effectiveness.
This role requires a senior leader with significant corporate legal, employment law, or global employee relations background coupled with the motivation to build and scale an enterprise-grade capability that protects the company, strengthens leadership decision-making, and ensures consistent, compliant, and fair workforce practices globally.
This position will serve as a trusted partner to Legal, Ethics & Compliance, and HR leadership—establishing scalable governance, investigation protocols, and decision frameworks that balance legal risk, organizational values, and business execution.
This leader will play a critical role in enabling the company to manage employee relations matters, performance management actions, and position eliminations in a manner that is legally defensible, operationally consistent, and aligned with enterprise risk standards while concurrently leveraging data to drive preventative interventions
Core Mandate: What You Will Build
The VP will design and scale global Employee Relations capability that:
• Establishes consistent, legally sound investigation and escalation protocols across all regions
• Enables leaders to manage performance, conduct, and workforce changes through compliant, fair, and well-documented processes
• Develops a closed loop process to identify and implement appropriate interventions based upon data-driven insights into systemic workforce risks and opportunities
• Serves as a trusted advisor on sensitive workforce matters with legal, regulatory, or reputational implications
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Leadership and Legal Partnership
- Serve as the global executive owner of employee relations governance and operating model
- Partner closely with Legal leadership to ensure alignment on investigation protocols, escalation thresholds, privilege considerations, and employment risk posture
- Act as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on high-risk or sensitive workforce matters, including investigations, terminations, executive-level concerns, and regulatory exposure
- Establish clear escalation and decision frameworks to ensure Legal involvement in matters with potential litigation, regulatory, or reputational risk
Global Investigations and Employee Relations Governance
- Design and implement a global, hub-based employee relations and investigations model with consistent standards and regional execution
- Oversee intake, triage, investigation, and resolution of employee relations matters globally
- Ensures standardized investigation protocols, documentation standards, and resolution frameworks aligned with Legal and Compliance requirements and our shared values
- Ensure alignment with Legal on investigations requiring privilege, external counsel engagement, or regulatory coordination
- Ensure investigations are conducted in a fair, objective, legally compliant, and defensible manner
Performance Management and Position Elimination Governance
- Ensure scalable, compliant performance management and position elimination protocols, establishing global standards while enabling appropriate regional flexibility based on local legal and regulatory requirements
- Establish frameworks to ensure performance management and workforce reduction decisions are handled consistently, fairly, and in alignment with employment law, company policy, and local regulations
- Work in close collaboration with regional HR to ensure performance and position elimination actions reflect local labor laws, consultation requirements, and culturally appropriate leadership practices
- Establish processes that enable appropriate performance action while mitigating legal and regulatory risk
- Ensure documentation, decision-making standards, and escalation protocols support defensible and consistent outcomes while allowing for locally compliant implementation and regional review and input
- Build strong partnerships with regional HR leadership to reinforce shared accountability, ensuring global governance strengthens—rather than replaces—local HR leadership authority and effectiveness
Risk Intelligence, Analytics, and Preventative Intervention
- Establish enterprise-wide employee relations analytics and reporting to identify trends, systemic risk, and organizational exposure
- Provide executive leadership with insight into workforce risk patterns, enabling proactive policy, training, or leadership interventions
- Partner with Legal, Compliance, Learning, HR and business leadership to address systemic risk through structural, policy, or capability improvements
- Strengthen organizational capability to resolve issues early and reduce preventable escalation and litigation risk
Compliance and Regulatory Interface
- Oversee 3rd party employment-related regulatory inquiries, investigations, audits, and claims
- Partner with Legal, Ethics & Compliance, Privacy, and Internal Audit to ensure coordinated and compliant responses to government agencies and regulators globally
- Ensure employee relations practices align with global labor laws, whistleblower protections, and regulatory requirements
Leadership Enablement and Capability Building
- Champion any necessary enterprise-wide training and enablement programs to improve leader capability in managing performance, conduct, and employee relations matters
- Create scalable playbooks, toolkits, and decision frameworks that improve consistency and risk management across regions
- Build and develop a high-performing global employee relations team and operating model
Qualifications
- Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent senior leadership experience in corporate employment law, employee relations, investigations, or compliance
- 12–15+ years of experience in global employee relations, employment law, corporate legal, or investigations leadership roles
- Demonstrated experience advising senior executives on sensitive workforce matters involving legal, regulatory, or reputational risk
- Proven track record building or leading global employee relations, investigations, or employment risk functions
- Strong executive presence with ability to influence across Legal, HR, and executive leadership
Measures of Success (Qualitative & Quantitative)
- Reduction in repeat or systemic employee relations issues year over year
- Improved cycle time and quality of investigations without compromising legal rigor
- Scalable, compliant performance management and position elimination protocols, enabling timely and fair workforce decisions
- Strong alignment between ER outcomes, Legal risk posture, and organizational values
- Implementation of data-driven risk intelligence, enabling proactive identification and mitigation of systemic workforce risks
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Key Skills
Building Capability, Business Risk Assessments, Change Management, Cross-Functional Partnerships, Employee Relations, Executive Influence, Executive Leadership, International Labor Law, Leadership Engagement, Managing Ambiguity, Operating Model Design, Strategic Advisory, Values Alignment
At TD SYNNEX, our values guide everything we do: Together, We Own It, We Dare to Go, We Grow and Win, and above all, We Do the Right Thing. These principles shape how we work with each other, our partners, and our communities as we drive innovation and create lasting impact.
What’s In It For You?
- Elective Benefits: Our programs are tailored to your country to best accommodate your lifestyle.
- Grow Your Career: Accelerate your path to success (and keep up with the future) with formal programs on leadership and professional development, and many more on-demand courses.
- Elevate Your Personal Well-Being: Boost your financial, physical, and mental well-being through seminars, events, and our global Life Empowerment Assistance Program.
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: It’s not just a phrase to us; valuing every voice is how we succeed. Join us in celebrating our global diversity through inclusive education, meaningful peer-to-peer conversations, and equitable growth and development opportunities.
- Make the Most of our Global Organization: Network with other new co-workers within your first 30 days through our onboarding program.
- Connect with Your Community: Participate in internal, peer-led inclusive communities and activities, including business resource groups, local volunteering events, and more environmental and social initiatives.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Apply anyway.
At TD SYNNEX, we’re proud to be recognized as a great place to work and a leader in the promotion and practice of diversity, equity and inclusion. If you’re excited about working for our company and believe you’re a good fit for this role, we encourage you to apply. You may be exactly the person we’re looking for!
We are an equal opportunity employer and committed to building a team that represents and empowers a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, genetics, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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