Senior Specialist, Employee Relations

About Expedia Group

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.

Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors—Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together—help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

Introduction To Team

Our Corporate Functions are made up of teams that support Expedia Group, including our Global Finance Org., Traveler and Partner Service Platform, Legal Team, Strategy and Corporate Development Team, and People & Places Org.

If you're an experienced employee relations (ER) professional looking to deepen your expertise and take on a broad, hands-on caseload across the UK and Ireland, we'd love to hear from you. You'll be part of a close-knit, collaborative ER team with strong regional expertise and close partnership with Legal, HR Operations, Benefits, and Payroll. You'll play a central role in how Expedia Group supports its people through employee relations, performance management, and organizational change.

You'll get exposure to complex and varied ER work, meaningful coaching opportunities with senior leaders, and the chance to contribute to global ER projects—all while growing your career at a global travel company.

In This Role, You Will

• Act as the central point of contact for employee relations issues across business areas in the UK and Ireland, ensuring individual employee concerns are heard, issues are addressed, and employees are treated fairly.
• Manage a varied caseload of ER matters—including conduct, performance, grievance, and disciplinary cases—through to resolution, escalating to our in-house Legal team where appropriate.
• Coach and support people managers and leaders on performance management topics, helping them drive performance excellence and address underperformance early.
• Support organizational change initiatives, including reorganizations and redundancy processes, partnering with business leaders, HRBPs, and the wider ER team.
• Keep current on UK (and Ireland, where applicable) employment law requirements and internal policy, applying this knowledge to mitigate risk and guide consistent, compliant decision-making.
• Build strong, trusted relationships with stakeholders across the business, offering pragmatic solutions aligned to business challenges and organizational goals.
• Identify trends in ER casework and provide insights that support proactive interventions, manager coaching, and policy improvement.
• Contribute to ER projects and global opportunities across the wider ER team, helping to improve processes, tools, and ways of working.
• Understand key performance indicators related to your own work and the role metrics play in defining success (e.g., efficiency and effectiveness of case handling).
• Stay curious about emerging AI tools and applies them thoughtfully to day-to-day tasks, using AI literacy to drive efficiencies, streamline case documentation and reporting, and free up time to focus on higher-value, judgement-based ER work.
• Use regional trends, themes, and case data to build a compelling narrative for the business, translating patterns into actionable insights that drive proactive interventions and targeted support before issues escalate.