Sr. Lead, Teammate Relations - EMEA

At Under Armour, you will join a team focused on innovation and performance, with the freedom to go further no matter your role. That means developing, delivering, and selling state-of-the-art products and digital tools that make top performers even better.

Purpose of Role

The Senior Lead, Teammate Relations EMEA is a critical regional role within the EMEA HR organization, responsible for leading and governing the Teammate Relations agenda across EMEA Retail and Corporate populations, ensuring a consistent, fair, confidential and legally aligned approach to teammate concerns, investigations, corrective actions, conflict resolution and workplace risk.

This role acts as the EMEA subject matter expert for Teammate Relations and partners closely with HR Business Partners, HR Operations, Payroll, Legal, Retail Operations, Occupational Health providers and local vendors. The role provides expert guidance and governance across complex and sensitive ER matters, while supporting managers and HRBPs with scalable guidance, tools and processes.

In addition, this role will lead the EMEA governance framework for sickness / Leave of Absence processes. This includes designing and maintaining the RACI, country process flows, escalation criteria, manager guidance, dashboards and governance routines across EMEA countries. The role does not own all day-to-day sickness administration, but ensures that the process is clearly structured, legally sound and consistently managed across Retail and Corporate.

The Netherlands sickness process will be operationally outsourced due to the heavier employer obligations in the Dutch market. However, UA will retain internal governance through the Senior Lead, Teammate Relations EMEA, HR Operations, Legal and the Head of HR EMEA.

Your Impact

This role leads Employee Relations (ER), investigations, and sickness/leave governance across EMEA Retail and Corporate, ensuring a consistent, fair, legally compliant, and scalable approach to people-related matters.

Employee Relations & Investigations

• Lead complex ER cases, investigations, teammate complaints, conduct matters, and workplace concerns.
• Advise leaders, managers, and HRBPs on ER best practices, policy application, employment law considerations, and risk mitigation.
• Support performance management, corrective actions, conflict resolution, and sensitive employee issues.
• Conduct investigations, prepare findings and recommendations, and identify root causes and preventative solutions.
• Ensure consistent policy interpretation, case documentation, and governance across EMEA.

Sickness & Leave of Absence Governance

• Own the EMEA sickness and leave governance framework across Retail and Corporate.
• Define processes, responsibilities, escalation paths, and manager guidance in partnership with HR Operations, Payroll, Legal, Occupational Health, and external vendors.
• Support high-risk absence cases involving long-term sickness, disability, mental health, workplace conflict, or legal risk.
• Monitor absence trends and provide insights to improve consistency, compliance, and manager capability.

Governance, Data & Process Excellence

• Build and maintain ER and absence dashboards, reporting, and risk metrics.
• Develop ER playbooks, manager guidance, training materials, and scalable processes.
• Use data and trends to identify risks, improve employee experience, and strengthen people management capability.
• Partner closely with HRBPs, HR Operations, Legal, and business leaders to create a consistent EMEA ER model.

Scope

• Supports both Retail and Corporate employee populations across EMEA.
• Provides specialist guidance, governance, and escalation support while enabling managers and HRBPs to effectively manage day-to-day people matters.
• Focuses on reducing risk, improving consistency, and strengthening leadership capability across the region.

Qualifications

• Strong employee relations expertise, including investigations, complaints management, corrective action, conflict resolution and sensitive workplace matters.
• Strong understanding of EMEA employment law principles, with the ability to identify when Legal involvement is required.
• Experience with sickness, Leave of Absence, occupational health or absence governance across multiple countries is strongly preferred.
• Ability to design governance frameworks, RACIs, process flows, escalation models and manager guidance.
• Strong judgment, discretion and confidentiality in handling sensitive and high-risk matters.
• Ability to remain neutral, balanced and fact-based in emotionally charged or complex situations.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with senior leaders, HRBPs, managers, Legal, HR Operations, Payroll and vendors.
• Ability to coach managers and HRBPs without becoming the owner of all routine people matters.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to translate ER and sickness data into business insights and risk mitigation actions.
• Strong written communication skills, including investigation summaries, guidance documents, templates and executive updates.
• Strong process discipline and follow-through.
• Ability to operate in a matrixed, multi-country environment.
• Retail experience is strongly preferred.
• English fluency required; additional European language capability preferred.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Typically 8–10+ years of relevant HR experience.
• Significant experience in Employee Relations, HRBP, employment-law-adjacent HR work or investigations.
• Experience supporting multi-country EMEA populations preferred.
• Experience in Retail and Corporate environments preferred.
• Direct teammate-facing experience required.
• Experience working with HR Operations, Payroll, Legal and external vendors preferred.
• Experience building scalable HR / ER processes, playbooks or governance models preferred.

Benefits & Perks

• Paid “UA Give Back” Volunteer Days: Work alongside your team to support initiatives in your local community.
• Under Armour Merchandise Discounts
• Health & fitness benefits, discounts and resources - programs to promote physical activity and overall well-being.
• Hybrid work
• 28 days holiday
• Teammate Resource groups e.g. Green Machine, Sustainability, LGBTQIA+, Women in Leading and Living, Balance for mental health and wellbeing etc.
• Human Performance Institute (Gym) on site