Senior People Relations Manager

Overview

Join to apply for the Senior People Relations Manager role at Barratt Redrow. This role reports to the Head of HR Operations and leads the People Relations team and the Company’s approach to ER case management, mitigating risk and ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and promoting improved employee relations.

While the work varies from team to team, our key requirements don’t: you must be well organised, extremely helpful and resourceful, and able to use your initiative. You’ll understand that what you do is important, and impacts on your team, the department, and the wider business.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of a consistent and high quality ER advisory service across the organisation. Set and monitor standards for ER active case management ensuring legal compliance, operational risk management, cultural alignment and early resolution.
• Provide strategic ER input into change and transformation projects, including restructures, TUPE transfers, site closures and organisational design/development changes
• Manage, coach and upskill the PR team, building a high performing, knowledgeable and engaged team. Organise all workload allocation, case and project prioritisation and the professional development of members
• Develop, review and implement our ER policies and procedures (discipline, capability, grievance etc.) ensuring alignment with current legislation, trends and best practice, raising awareness and compliance where appropriate
• Systemise all ER caseload, ensuring legal compliance, accessibility for monitoring, accurate, secure, easy and timely reporting, case tracking and audit readiness
• Develop relationships and liaise with external stakeholders e.g. legal representatives, ACAS etc to monitor cases, set strategy and mitigate risk
• Prepare and present MI, reports and recommendations to senior stakeholders including litigation risk and exposure
• Conduct ER audits to ensure compliance, identify areas of improvement and provide recommendations/training
• Oversee and support the handling of high-risk or sensitive cases guiding senior leaders and the PR team through challenges, promoting early resolution and informal problem solving, raising confidence and reducing dependency on formal processes

What You’ll Need

To be successful in this role, we are looking for:

Personal characteristics

• Executes with excellence – delivers impact through practical problem solving, engagement with stakeholders and purposeful, timely execution
• Deep knowledge of employment law and best practice employee relations
• Experienced Mediator
• Digitally fluent and data literate
• Legal or HR professional qualification
• Resilient, solutions focused and emotionally intelligent
• Role model for integrity, fairness and inclusion

Skills

• Change management: Manage and drive change initiatives to achieve desired outcomes in a way that is sustainable and creates lasting value
• Compliance and risk management: Ensure compliance with policy, process and legislation, manage and mitigate risk
• Conflict resolution: Understand the root cause of conflicts and issues, remain objective, and de-escalate to mitigate risk
• Continuous improvement: Proactively identify opportunities for process improvement and implement best practice to achieve operational excellence
• Interpersonal skills: Interact with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation, challenge constructively, communicate clearly with tact, diplomacy and professionalism to build trust and relationships
• Leadership: Lead, motivate and develop the team to achieve operational excellence and customer satisfaction
• Negotiation: Mediate between management and employees during complex disputes or negotiations at senior levels
• Problem solving: Analyse data, identify issues, and develop timely and well informed solutions to complex business challenges
• Project management: Plans and executes complex projects within budget, on time and with high quality
• Strategic thinking: Recommend, develop and implement strategic plans that align with the business and HR objectives and strategy
• Proven experience managing a team within a Human Resources function

Benefits

Our Company and Benefits

Weve been nationally recognised as a 5 star housebuilder since 2010 for supplying high quality homes for all generations. That’s more than any other major housebuilder. It’s because we combine the brightest minds, the latest technology, and a genuine commitment to putting customers first. We want the best people in the industry to help us shape the future of building. We have tailored opportunities for apprentices, graduates, experienced professionals and ex Armed Forces personnel to come and help us stay one step ahead, and build the homes that Britain needs.

Barratt adopts a hybrid way of working which assumes that where roles allow, our office based colleagues divide their time between working in the office, on our construction sites and sales offices, and working from home, as the role dictates. We recognise the many benefits that an effective hybrid working culture brings to both the Company and our colleagues.

We are building an organisation where anyone with drive and talent can pursue the career they want. We are building a culture where anyone, regardless of gender, race, age, sexuality, disability, background or any other characteristic, can progress and be proud to work for us.

As part of working for Barratt Redrow PLC and specifically for this role we offer

• Competitive Salary
• Competitive Bonus Scheme
• Private Medical Cover – Family Cover
• Annual Medical Health Assessment
• 26 days’ holiday (increase by 1 day for every 3 years’ continuous service up to 29 days)
• Choice of Flexible Benefits
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policies

Our Benefits Are Fit To Measure

Today’s housebuilding professional need tomorrow’s benefits, so they’re ready for whatever the future brings. When you join Barratt, you get the kind of support you would expect from a business built for a modern working world.

Private medical cover

Private healthcare support is available for timely access to a virtual GP, for diagnosis, treatment and more — including physio and talking therapies. You can even add family members.

Pension

First class pension schemes with the option of up to 10% employer contributions.

Annual Health Assessment

All colleagues are able to access a fully funded annual health assessment, helping you to proactively manage your health and wellbeing.

Financial Benefits

As well as a competitive salary, we offer many ways to make life more affordable – from access to employee loans and savings accounts, to house purchase discounts.

Lifestyle Benefits

Cycle to Work scheme, reduced hotel rate, discounts at major retailers… These make a massive difference to the quality of your lifestyle.

So much more… From death in service, paid volunteer and study leave, enhanced family friendly policies including our Parents and Carers leave to a share buying scheme, we have an incredible range of additional benefits.

Job Details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Sales and Business Development
• Industries: Construction

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