At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead employee relations strategy and advise on complex workforce issues.
- Company: Global organisation offering a dynamic and impactful work environment.
- Benefits: Competitive daily rate, hybrid working model, and long-term contract.
- Other info: Opportunity to work on high-profile cases in a fast-paced environment.
- Why this job: Shape ER strategy and influence key business decisions at an executive level.
- Qualifications: Proven experience in employee relations at a senior level and strong communication skills.
The predicted salary is between 51750 - 63250 £ per year.
Contract | Inside IR35 | c. £1,000 per day
A leading global organisation is seeking an experienced Employee Relations Director to join on an interim basis, providing strategic leadership across a broad range of complex and commercially sensitive employee relations matters.
This role requires an individual capable of delivering a true white-glove advisory service, partnering with executive leadership, HR leadership and key business stakeholders across a dynamic and highly visible global environment.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic leadership across all employee relations activity.
- Advise senior executives and HR leadership on high-risk and business-critical people matters.
- Lead complex investigations, grievances, disciplinaries and executive-level cases.
- Develop and drive ER strategy, governance and best practice frameworks.
- Support large-scale organisational change, restructuring and transformation programmes.
- Assess, mitigate and manage employment-related business risk.
- Act as a trusted adviser to senior leadership teams on sensitive workforce issues.
- Ensure consistency of approach across multiple business units and geographies where applicable.
- Influence key business decisions through commercially focused people advice.
Requirements
- Proven experience operating at Director or Head of Employee Relations level.
- Extensive Employee Relations experience within large, complex organisations.
- Deep expertise in employment law and employment risk management.
- Demonstrated success handling highly sensitive and high-profile cases.
- Track record of partnering with executive and board-level stakeholders.
- Exceptional influencing, communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong commercial acumen and judgement.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-profile environment.
Package
- c. £1,000 per day
- Inside IR35
- Hybrid working model
- Long-term programme of work
- Opportunity to shape ER strategy and influence executive decision-making across a global organisation
For a confidential discussion, please get in touch. This is an excellent opportunity for a senior Employee Relations leader seeking a high-impact contract assignment with significant exposure to executive stakeholders and business-critical initiatives.
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