📍 Brazil | Regional Scope
We’re looking for a Senior Regional HR Partner with deep Employee Relations expertise to support leaders across Latin America. This role is critical in managing complex ER cases, leading investigations, and ensuring compliance with country‑specific labor laws, while protecting culture and enabling strong leadership decisions.
What You’ll Do- Lead high‑risk, complex ER cases end‑to‑end, including investigations, disciplinary actions, grievances, and separations
- Conduct and oversee workplace investigations (harassment, discrimination, retaliation, ethics)
- Advise senior leaders on legal risk, compliance, and defensible decision‑making
- Apply HR policies in line with local labor laws across Latin America
- Coach leaders on ER best practices and manager accountability
- 5+ years of HR experience, with strong focus on Employee Relations
- Proven investigation experience and senior‑leader advisory capability
- Solid knowledge of employment law (multi‑country LATAM experience preferred)
- High judgment, discretion, and comfort operating in ambiguity
- High‑impact regional role with senior‑leader visibility
- Shape how ER is delivered across Latin America
- Work on the most complex and meaningful people matters
- Strong partnership with HR, Legal, and Compliance teams
This is a Hybrid role, must be within driving distance to the Sao Paulo office.
Learn more about our EEO & Accommodations request here.
What We Do
Fortrea (Nasdaq: FTRE) is a leading global provider of clinical development and patient access solutions to the life sciences industry. We partner with emerging and large biopharmaceutical, medical device and diagnostic companies to drive healthcare innovation that accelerates life changing therapies to patients in need. Fortrea provides phase I-IV clinical trial management, clinical pharmacology, differentiated technology-enabled trial solutions and post-approval services. Fortrea’s solutions leverage three decades of experience spanning more than 20 therapeutic areas, a passion for scientific rigor, exceptional insights and a strong investigator site network. Our talented and diverse team working in more than 90 countries is scaled to deliver focused and agile solutions to customers globally. Learn more about how Fortrea is becoming a transformative force from pipeline to patient at Fortrea.com.
