ER Partner - 12 month FTC

Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller; Bridgwater; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Generous annual bonus

Life Assurance

Private Medical Insurance

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave

Enhanced Bereavement Leave

Pension Employer Contribution (matched

Müller Rewards discounts

Job summary

Müller UK & Ireland invites applications for an Employee Relations Partner. Based in Bridgwater or Stroud, this hybrid role combines ER case work with strategic data insights to improve people outcomes. You will support managers, collaborate with Legal Counsel, and drive compliance with UK employment law.

We value experience across all levels, strong stakeholder relations, and the ability to influence at all levels. 40-hour week, with some travel and a 12-month secondment/FTC.

Qualifications

• Experience managing employee relations matters end-to-end.
• Strong stakeholder management with ability to build relationships across levels.
• Experience analysing data to support engagement and ER initiatives.
• Deep knowledge of UK employment legislation and best practice.
• CIPD qualification or equivalent.
• Demonstrated change management and process improvement capabilities.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills across management levels.
• High attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines.
• Experience delivering against challenging SLAs/KPIs.

Responsibilities

• Advocate a resolution-focused culture to improve business outcomes.
• Collaborate with Site HRBP and Legal Counsel to align on ER issues.
• Coach and influence managers on ER topics and best practices.
• Support training of managers on ER processes and responsibilities.
• Escalate complex high-risk cases with Head of HR/HRBP and Legal Counsel and determine action.
• Assist Legal Counsel in employment tribunal case preparations.
• Provide data insights on people trends and support change initiatives.
• Develop and apply people policies to improve the employee experience and mitigate risk.

Skills

ER case management

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

UK employment law

CIPD qualification

Change management

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Interpersonal skills

SLA/KPI experience

Education

CIPD Associate/ Chartered

Job description

We're Hiring: Employee Relations Partner

Location: Bridgwater or Stroud / Hybrid – 2-3 days per week on site.

Contract: Full-Time, 12-month secondment / Fixed-term contract

Hours: Monday–Friday (40 hours)

Part-time working arrangements considered

Benefits for the role:

• Competitive salary
• generous annual bonus
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical Insurance
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising with service)
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Family Leave
• Enhanced Bereavement Leave
• Pension Employer Contribution Scheme (matched up to 8%)
• Exclusive access to Müller Rewards, offering a variety of online and in-store discounts and development opportunities.

If you are ready to unleash your potential and build an exciting career with Britian’s most chosen dairy brand, Müller UK & Ireland, part of the renowned Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller, invites you to apply for our Employee Relations Partner position.

With over 31,000 employees across Europe and a long-standing commitment to excellence, Müller is a family-owned business known for its dedication to quality, innovation, and growth. In the UK alone, we produce a wide range of leading branded and private-label dairy products, from yogurts and desserts to butter and flavoured milk

As an Employee Relations Partner, you will provide managers with professional support to resolve people related matters, such as long-term absence, disciplinary, grievance, and performance management cases, with the focus on gaining the best outcomes for both the business and employees. Acting as the subject matter expert you will provide advice and support, drive best practice and ensure compliance with all company policies and procedures in line with UK employment legislation.

Based on the needs of the partner group, you must be prepared to travel based on the region of sites allocated to build relationships, knowledge and a deep understanding of your partner group.

What you’ll do:

CaseManagement:

• Advocate a culture which is resolution-focused to improve business outcomes.
• Work closely with the Site HRBP and internal Legal Counsel to ensure alignment on key ER issues.
• Coach, guide and influence people managers on people related matters and the best approach to dealing with people related topics, developing their knowledge, capability and confidence.
• Support the training of people managers on their roles and responsibilities in delivering ER processes.
• Escalate and advise Head of HR / HRBP and Legal Counsel of any complex high-risk cases or disputes and determine together solutions, course of action, mitigating the risk and any PR exposure.
• Provide support to Legal Counsel in the preparation for any employment tribunal cases.

Data insights and TrendAnalysis:

• Proactively support the business with data insights both external and internal on people trends and issues. Work collaboratively with the business to develop improvement strategies and deliver successful people relations program/interventions in support of organisational change.
• Develop and apply people policies which improve the people experience and employer brand and mitigate risk to the business.

What you’ll bring:

• Experience in managing employee relations matters of all levels, cradle to grave case management
• Proven excellent stakeholder management with the ability to adapt to different styles and approaches, quickly building strong and effective working relationships, delivering service excellence
• Experience of analysing data, providing data insights to support engagement and positive employee relations
• Deep and up to date understanding of UK employment legislation and best practice and keeping up to date on changes
• Relevant specialist employment law qualification and or CIPD Associate/Chartered member
• Passion for CI with experience of working on own initiatives to implement change and operational process improvement
• Strong communication and influencing skills with the ability to interact across all levels of management
• Strong attention to detail, problem solving ability and ability to deliver results to deadlines
• Good interpersonal and written communication skills
• Previous experience of working to challenging SLAs/KPIs

At Müller, we’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels they belong. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and encourage people to apply even if they don’t meet every requirement listed. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know - we’re happy to support you.