Jeffrey S. Rowland

• Executive leader responsible for enterprise Employee & Labor Relations strategy for a workforce of 18,000+ employees, including a large unionized population across multiple bargaining units.
• Serve as the University’s chief labor strategist and lead negotiator, directing all collective bargaining, labor policy, and workforce risk management activities.
• Lead labor relations strategy for multiple collective bargaining agreements covering unionized employees across a decentralized multi-unit enterprise.
• Serve as first-chair negotiator for all major labor agreements, including negotiations involving complex operational and economic issues.
• Provide executive guidance to senior leadership on labor strategy, workforce transitions, dispute resolution, and union relations.
• Direct a team of Employee & Labor Relations professionals and partner with 55+ HR leaders in a highly matrixed HR structure.
• Oversee grievance management and arbitration strategy across multiple bargaining units.
• Advise leadership on organizational restructuring, workforce planning, and risk mitigation in a heavily regulated employment environment.
• Lead institutional HR compliance initiatives, including employment policy governance, investigations, and regulatory adherence.
• Partner closely with legal counsel and operational leadership to resolve high-risk labor matters and protect organizational interests.

• Led enterprise employee relations strategy and labor contract administration for a complex, decentralized organization.
• Directed grievance handling and arbitration strategy across multiple bargaining units.
• Supported HR leadership and operational managers in contract interpretation, discipline, and dispute resolution.
• Provided strategic labor relations guidance to executive and operational leaders.

Managed labor relations operations including investigations, grievances, arbitration preparation, and contract compliance.

• Directed labor relations strategy across 170 unionized locations representing approximately 5,000 employees throughout North America.
• Negotiated 150+ collective bargaining agreements with multiple unions across diverse operational environments.
• Led labor strategy for operational leaders across a large distributed workforce.
• Directed arbitration strategy and complex grievance resolution.
• Developed executive training programs for labor relations and contract administration.

• Partnered with senior leadership within the U.S. Pharmaceuticals division to support workforce strategy, organizational effectiveness, and regulatory compliance.

• Advised large employer clients on health strategy, workforce benefits design, and cost management programs.

• Labor relations professional responsible for representing 3,000+ union members across 17 local unions.
• Served as chief negotiator for collective bargaining agreements.
• Led grievance handling through arbitration.
• Trained union leadership and stewards on labor contract administration.