Senior Employee Relations Manager - UK&I
£80-100,000 + bonus + LTIP + benefits
High-profile, multi-site consumer organisation
Location: Remote with minimum one day a week in head office (Northern Home Counties)
There are Employee Relations roles that manage complexity. And there are roles that give you the opportunity to change how an organisation manages its people.
This is the latter.
We are partnering with a major UK&I consumer organisation to appoint a Senior (Head of) Employee Relations Manager into a highly visible leadership role with a breadth of remit that would readily be recognised as Head of Employee Relations in many businesses.
This is not a turnaround and it is not a blank sheet of paper.
Over the last couple of years, a credible and respected Employee Relations function has been built and embedded across the organisation. A specialist team is in place, relationships have been established with operational and senior leadership teams, and ER has earned its position as an important business partner.
The opportunity now is to take that platform and determine what comes next.
For an ambitious ER leader, this offers a compelling combination: strategic ownership, operational complexity, Industrial Relations, leadership development, colleague engagement, employment policy and the opportunity to build an entirely new ER proposition for a significant wider business network.
You will operate at senior leadership level, but remain close enough to the organisation to understand what is really happening.
This is emphatically not a “that's not my job” environment.
The mandate
You will lead the development and delivery of the organisation's end-to-end Employee and Industrial Relations strategy, ensuring it supports the wider People Strategy and responds to a rapidly changing external employment landscape.
You will inherit an established specialist team and a function with strong foundations. Your challenge will be to build on that success rather than unnecessarily reinvent it.
Developing that team, technically, commercially and as future talent for the wider People function will be an important part of your leadership contribution.
But this role extends considerably beyond leading an ER team.
Building genuine leadership capability
A significant priority will be continuing to s...
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