Employee Relations Business Partner

Personnel Today Awards; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Personnel Today Awards is recruiting an experienced Employee Relations Business Partner to support a multi-site construction business. You will advise managers on complex ER matters, lead high-risk cases, and partner with senior stakeholders to resolve issues pragmatically and commercially.

You’ll balance commercial considerations with employee risk, coach leaders, and work to strengthen ER capability across the organisation. UK employment law knowledge is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience managing complex ER casework across a multi-site business.
• Excellent knowledge of UK employment law and case handling.
• Experience supporting restructures, redundancies and organisational change.

Responsibilities

• Act as trusted ER partner to managers and senior stakeholders across sites.
• Handle complex disciplinary, grievance, absence, capability and performance cases.
• Advise on restructures, redundancies and major organisational changes.
• Support sensitive and high-risk ER cases from initial advice through to resolution.
• Coach managers to build confidence and capability in handling people issues.
• Identify ER trends and drive proactive improvement of ER policies and processes.

Skills

ER case management

UK employment law

stakeholder engagement

coaching & influencing

Education

CIPD qualification

Job description

We’re recruiting for an experienced Employee Relations Business Partner to join a successful construction business, providing specialist ER support across a diverse, operational workforce. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys being close to the business and managing complex, high-volume employee relations, while partnering with managers to resolve issues pragmatically and commercially.

Your new role

You’ll act as a trusted ER partner to managers and senior stakeholders, taking ownership of a broad range of employee relations matters including:

• Managing complex disciplinary, grievance, absence, capability and performance cases
• Advising managers on restructures, redundancies and organisational change
• Supporting sensitive and high-risk ER cases from initial advice through to resolution
• Coaching managers to build confidence and capability in handling people issues
• Ensuring cases are managed consistently and in line with UK employment legislation
• Identifying ER trends and recurring issues and helping the business take a more proactive approach
• Working closely with HR colleagues and operational leaders across multiple sites
• Supporting the continuous improvement of ER policies, processes and ways of working

This role would suit someone who wants to move beyond purely transactional case management and have genuine influence across the business. You’ll be working closely with operational leaders, helping improve ER capability while managing some of the more complex people challenges across the organisation.

What you'll need to succeed

• Strong experience managing complex ER casework
• Excellent knowledge of UK employment law
• Experience supporting restructures, redundancies and organisational change
• Confidence partnering with senior and operational stakeholders
• The ability to balance commercial considerations with employee risk and best practice
• Strong coaching and influencing skills
• Experience within construction, engineering, infrastructure, facilities management or another multi-site operational environment would be particularly relevant
• CIPD qualification or equivalent HR experience would be beneficial