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Employee Relations Partner

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Robert Walters is the world’s most trusted talent solutions business. We help organisations find the skills and solutions to reach their goals and assist talented professionals to power their unique potential. We offer our people incredible career opportunities as well as an inclusive culture and flexible working.

Through our new HR Target Operating Model, we are committed to ensuring we have the right capabilities and specialisms to deliver a great HR service to the business and our clients and candidates.

This is an exciting time for our HR Function as we build a team that is strategic, innovative and delivers an outstanding employee experience across the moments that matter, so that we can ‘win as one’.


About the Role:

  • The role of the Employee Relations Advisor will be responsible for supporting the ER specialist and leading on employee relations / case management within the region. Case management will account for 90% of the time in the role.
  • The operating model of the HR function is dynamic and composed of the Centre’s of Expertise, HR Shared Services and Business Partnering.  
  • The Employee Relations Partner will report into the Senior ER Partner and work closely with Stakeholders, HR Business Partners, Centre of Expertise, and Administrators to ensure policies and procedures are that relate to employee relations.
  • The role will be responsible for enhancing the relationship between RW and its employees, with a focus on creating and maintaining positive relationships, ensuring compliance with local labour laws, whilst promoting a positive culture within the business.


Responsibilities:



Strategy, Change, and Stakeholder Management

  • Work with stakeholders to Implement effective employee relation strategy aligned with the business’ goals and values.
  • Support employees in any potential restructuring process, include TUPE in and out
  • Recognise employee related trends in the business and identify areas of success and improvement using data and insight, use this to come up with solutions.


Employee Relations

  • Provide guidance and advice to employees and managers on any employee related issues including, disciplinaries, grievances and long-term sickness. Ensure advice is in line with local labour laws and business policies.
  • Support the business in resolving matters of conflict at the earliest opportunity and be involved in the advisory of any formal processes within these areas. Advise in the progression of such cases as may be necessary whilst handling with discretion and sensitivity.
  • Investigate and resolve employee related issues in a fair and timely manner.
  • Coach line managers in getting the best from their teams and how to incorporate HR goals into daily activity. 


Collaboration:

  • Deliver training to upskill line managers to drive positive employee relations.


Who you are:

  • Proven experience advising on performance, disciplinary, grievance, absence management and general employee relations issues.
  • Strong understanding of local employment legislation.
  • Proficient on software such as Microsoft.
  • Proficient in software such as Microsoft and ideally knowledge of HRIS D365 and PowerBI. 
  • Strong communicative skills, written and verbal.
  • CIPD Level 5


Benefits:

  • A unique opportunity to drive projects such as Employer Branding, Talent pipelining, Recruitment Innovation, Candidate Experience
  • A track record of high performance and an ability to deliver excellent results consistently is key. In return for your hard work, you’ll be offered a competitive top salary and benefits package with bonuses/commission and fantastic incentives programme
  • Private medical insurance
  • A fantastic training and development programme
  • Volunteer time off
  • The opportunity to partake / qualify for our Global incentive weekend
  • Employee wellbeing through various programmes
  • You’ll have plenty of opportunities to progress your career, both in your country and other locations around the world. That’s the benefit of working for a large global organisation. One that is at the forefront of recruitment innovation, and a specialist in RPO and MSP

As a Disability Confident Employer, Robert Walters – Recruitment Outsourcing is committed to offering a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process to all candidates. If you require any accommodations or adjustments as a result of a disability, impairment or health condition, please do not hesitate to let me know.

This position is being sourced through our Outsourcing service line. Resource Solutions Limited, trading as Robert Walters, is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.

Contract Type: FULL_TIME

Specialism: Human Resources

Focus: Other specialist positions

Industry: Human Resources and Personnel

Salary: Negotiable

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Experience Level: Associate

Location: City of London

Job Reference: 5437

Date posted: 11 September 2024

Consultant: Nic Farmer

Phone number:

nic.farmer@robertwalters.com

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