VP, Global Employee Relations

TD Synnex • Clearwater, FL

1d • Remote

About The Position

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

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree