Job Description

Interim Senior Employees Relations Advisor

Location: Northern Home Counties, Midlands North West or Yorkshire based (Hybrid)

Contract: 6 months FTC possibility of a permanent role

Salary: \xc2\xa335-50,000 + benefits + career opportunities

Our Client is a global branded retailer and has recently set up a centre of excellence for ER and would now like to add an experience Employee Relations specialist to their team.

The Senior Employee Relations Advisor is part of the new Employee Relations Centre of Excellence team reporting to the Senior Manager Employee Relations. You will advise, guide, and coach corporate, supply chain and retail people leaders on all employment matters including policy interpretation, HR procedures, employee conflicts, engaging employees, and performance management. This role will be expected to collaborate cross-functionally to support a fair and consistent approach to employee relations.

The role:

• Manage assigned cases & investigations from interview through transition, escalation, and redirection or closure. Make recommendations for remediation, while maintaining accurate and timely case files, documentation and follow up.
• Provide guidance, coaching and counselling to HR and leadership to ensure the resolution of employment-related matters, to include interpretation and administration of company policies, procedures, and programs.
• Assist with setting up the ER COE creating the process and multiple projects relating to this
• Drive prompt closure of open cases/concerns.
• Draft clear and concise investigation reports.
• Develop and implement investigation plans.
• Support internal projects and workstreams as requested.
• Identify and recommend methods to resolve problems, update, and optimise existing processes.
• Manages the Employee Relations group mailbox and reviews cases submitted by people managers to determine whether the message is regarding a new or existing case and whether it is a tier one or tier two case and allocating accordingly.
• Uses case management system and other internal applications to create new cases, including performance, safety, workplace violence and business conduction violations.
• For attendance and job abandonment cases, creates and reviews attendance trackers, corrective action forms, and other documentation submitted by HR Business Partners.
• Applies defined policies for corrective actions based on case review and provides recommendations and counsel to people managers regarding the issue.

The person:

• Degree educated, or equivalent, along with CIPD L7 or L5
• Progressive ER or related experience within a retail, hospitality, head office, supply chain, manufacturing or logistics environment
• Proficiency in employee and/or industrial relations strategy.
• Thorough understanding of HR policies and procedures, and knowledge of UK and EU law
• Ability to be highly collaborative and influential and manage both within and across teams with minimal direction.
• Ability to motivate, influence and optimise senior leadership, stakeholders, and peer groups.
• Ability to flex communication style with different audiences and levels of seniority
• Applies working knowledge in the application of concepts, principles and technical capabilities to perform varied tasks
• Works on projects with complexity
• Identifies possible solutions to a variety of technical problems and takes action to resolve
• Applies judgment within defined parameters
• Reviews work for sound reasoning and accuracy

To apply please email your CV

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