The People & Culture organization at Legacy is about prioritizing our people so that we can prioritize our patients. We are transforming a traditional human resources function into a team of professionals who develop creative solutions to attract, develop and retain diverse, high performing talent. Within the People & Culture team, we are building a spirit of curiosity, experimenting with innovative approaches and challenging past practices to ensure we aren’t just responding to today’s workforce challenges, but can predict them. This is a pivotal moment in the healthcare industry, and Legacy’s People & Culture team sees this as an opportunity to reimagine what it means to work in one of the world’s most complex yet rewarding industries. For us it’s about building a legacy where our people can do their best and be their best.

This is a highly consultative, hybrid position that offers the flexibility of remote work alongside the necessity of in-person relationship building throughout the Portland Metro & SW Washington area. 

About Legacy Health

As the largest nonprofit health system serving Portland-Southwest Washington and the mid-Willamette Valley, Legacy Health provides comprehensive care across six hospitals — including Randall Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel, a center solely dedicated to children’s care. We operate over 70 primary care, specialty, and urgent care clinics, employ nearly 3,000 doctors and providers, and more than 13,000 employees. Our system also includes labs and a research center.

Legacy Health’s major partnerships include PacificSource Health Plans and the Unity Center for Behavioral Health — a unique facility for individuals facing mental health crises, collaboratively operated by four regional health systems and numerous community partners.

Serves as Chief Negotiator, leading collective bargaining efforts across multiple bargaining units. Leads and coordinates all aspects of collective bargaining, including preparation, proposal development, negotiations at the table, collaborating with Finance for costing models, and ratification strategy.

Provides expert consultation and strategic guidance to executive leadership, operational leaders, P&C partners, and union representatives regarding labor relations strategy, negotiations, contract administration, and dispute resolution. Serves as a participant on Executive committees related to labor including the Labor Exec Steering Committee, Labor Bargaining Council, etc.

Develops system-wide labor strategies that align operational, financial, and workforce priorities while maintaining productive labor-management relationships.

Education: 

• Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s preferred.
  • Relevant experience may be substituted for educational requirements.
• PHR or SPHR certification preferred. 

Experience:

• Ten years or more of progressively responsible experience in the People and Culture or Labor Relations field, or in labor law.
• Experience serving as Chief Negotiator and developing strategic approaches.
• Knowledge of laws, acts and regulations governing employee and labor relations.
• Health Care experience preferred.   

Skills: 

• Expert knowledge of all labor relations (negotiations, grievances, arbitrations)
• Working knowledge of People and Culture functional areas (employment, benefits, compensation, employee relations, training and development, human resources information systems, workforce planning).
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Strong data analysis skills.
• Strong presentation skills, ability to present data and information as a subject matter expert.  
• Demonstrated ability to discern pertinent data from raw information, evaluate and consult around solutions.  
• Demonstrated ability to influence decisions and actions of customers.  
• Comfortable with public speaking to include a wide variety of audiences. 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.