Employee Relations Director, Americas

Arcadis•Highlands Ranch, CO

6h•$136,000 - $299,000

About The Position

As Employee Relations Director, Americas, you will shape the future of how our organization connects with its people—leading the Employee Relations team for approx. 12,000 employees across diverse markets and cultures. You will be the driving force behind creating a fair, respectful, and legally compliant work environment that empowers our people, protects our business, and supports our growth. By balancing business needs with empathy and integrity, you’ll champion a culture of trust, inclusion, and accountability—ensuring our values come to life in every employee experience, every day, around the world.

Requirements

Extensive Employee Relations and Employment law Experience
Proven track record of leading employee relations strategy and employment law in large, complex, and highly matrixed organizations across multiple geographies.
Leadership in Complex Environments
Proven experience managing employee relations and employment law issues across different geographies, labor law frameworks, and cultural contexts. You understand how to lead globally while adapting to local realities.
Strong Employment law knowledge
Must be a qualified employment lawyer with a deep understanding of global labor and employment laws. Ability to interpret and apply legal principles pragmatically in a business setting is essential.
People Leadership
Inspirational people leader with experience managing and developing globally dispersed teams. Experience leading through change, transformation, or crisis. You’ve supported business transitions such as mergers, restructuring, or global expansions while ensuring people are treated with dignity and fairness.
Strategic Influence & Stakeholder Management
Adept at building trusted relationships across senior business leaders, HR, Legal, Compliance, and external labor bodies. You have the presence, communication skills, and credibility to influence at the highest levels.
Change & Transformation Expertise
Experience supporting M&A, restructuring, or workforce transformation initiatives with a people-first approach and strategic employee relations planning.
Data & Insight Driven
Strong analytical mindset with the ability to interpret employee relations and employment law trends, use data and AI to drive strategy, and turn insights into action.
Culturally Fluent & Globally Minded
Deep appreciation for cultural nuance and diversity. Able to navigate complexity with sensitivity, diplomacy, and an inclusive mindset.
Purpose-driven, values-led, and courageous in standing up for fairness and integrity.
Solutions-oriented and agile—able to pivot between strategy and execution.
Emotionally intelligent, calm under pressure, and a natural relationship-builder.
Comfortable with uncertainty and competing priorities.
Passionate about creating workplaces where people feel safe, respected, and heard

Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership
Policy Innovation & Global Governance
Proactive Risk & Compliance Stewardship
Labor & Union Relations Strategy
Complex Case Leadership & Resolution
Change Leadership & Organizational Transformation
Stakeholder Engagement & Influence
Team Development & Global Collaboration
Data-Driven Strategy & Continuous Improvement
Culture & Inclusion Advocacy
Act as a visible steward of health and safety and ensuring familiarity and compliance with Health and Safety regulations and guidelines including wellbeing and resilience.
Where required, undertake external promotion and presence for both the Arcadis and personal brand in the marketplace through though leadership and speaking engagements.