HR Specialist – TUPE & Change

Adecco; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Adecco Group UK & Ireland is seeking an experienced HR Specialist (TUPE & Change) to partner with senior leaders across Adecco, LHH, and Akkodis. You will guide on complex employee relations, transformation, and immigration, shaping workforce change with commercial insight.

You will act as a trusted advisor on TUPE and transformation, supporting restructures and ensuring compliant, thoughtful change across the business.

Qualifications

• Experience in UK & Ireland employment law and employee relations.
• Proven expertise in TUPE and organisational change process and strategy.
• Experience managing UK visa and immigration processes.
• Ability to operate at pace in a complex, evolving environment.
• Strong judgement and risk-based decision‑making.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor on complex employee relations matters.
• Provide commercially focused guidance on disciplinary, grievance, absence, performance and restructuring cases.
• Lead HR input across organisational change programmes.
• Support restructures, redundancies, and transformation initiatives.
• Guide leaders through consultation processes ensuring compliance and positive colleague experience.

Skills

Employee relations

Change management

UK employment law

Stakeholder management

Commercial acumen

Job description

We are recruiting for an experienced and commercially minded HR Specialist (TUPE & Change) to join our UK & Ireland HR team. This is an opportunity to play a key role at the heart of a dynamic, evolving organisation. You’ll work on meaningful change programmes, influence senior stakeholders, and shape the future of our workforce.

In this role, you’ll act as a trusted advisor to business leaders across Adecco, LHH, and Akkodis, providing expert guidance on complex employee relations matters, organisational change, and workforce compliance. You’ll bring deep subject matter expertise in TUPE, transformation, and immigration, helping the business navigate change with confidence, clarity, and fairness.

This is a fast-paced, high-impact role where your judgement, resilience, and ability to operate in ambiguity will be key to delivering successful outcomes.

What you’ll be doing

Employee Relations & Business Partnering

• Act as a trusted advisor on complex employee relations matters
• Provide commercially focused guidance on disciplinary, grievance, absence, performance, and restructuring cases
• Enable informed decision-making through balanced, risk‑aware advice
• Ensure a consistent and compliant approach to ER across the business

Change & Transformation

• Lead HR input across organisational change programmes
• Support restructures, redundancies, and transformation initiatives
• Guide leaders through consultation processes, ensuring compliance and positive colleague experience
• Bring clarity and structure in evolving and ambiguous environments

TUPE Expertise

• Lead and support TUPE transfers (inbound and outbound)
• Provide expert advice on risk, process, and employee impact
• Partner with stakeholders to deliver smooth, compliant transitions
• Design of change processes through to delivery hand over
• Manage visa and immigration processes in line with UK regulations
• Act as a key contact for sponsorship and right-to-work queries
• Ensure robust compliance, documentation, and audit readiness
• Apply and improve HR processes for efficiency and colleague experience
• Balance governance with pragmatism in a fast-paced environment
• Contribute to wider HR transformation initiatives

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build strong relationships across a diverse stakeholder group
• Communicate complex issues with clarity, empathy, and professionalism
• Influence and challenge constructively to achieve the right outcomes

About you

We’re looking for someone who combines strong technical expertise with commercial thinking and a collaborative mindset.

You’ll bring:

• Experience in UK & Ireland employment law and employee relations
• Proven expertise in TUPE and organisational change process and strategy
• Experience managing UK visa and immigration processes
• The ability to operate at pace in a complex, evolving environment
• Strong judgement and a pragmatic, risk-based decision‑making approach
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• The ability to translate complex HR issues into clear, actionable insights

What Success Looks Like

• Consistent delivery of fair and compliant ER outcomes
• Building credibility as a trusted, pragmatic HR expert
• Navigating Complexity and ambiguity with confidence, clarity and pace
• Demonstratable TUPE process and change management expertise
• Enabling High-quality decision-making through objective, evidence-based advice
• Supporting a positive colleague experience through change

Why choose us?

It’s an exciting time to be part of our team. At the Adecco Group, our purpose – making the future work for everyone – inspires and connects us all. Through our three global business units (GBU) – Adecco, Akkodis and LHH - we deliver expertise in talent and technology, enabling organisations to succeed and people to thrive.

We’re proud to be a global thought‑leader and care about doing the best job we can to ensure better futures for everyone. We do this by building our Future@Work strategy as a united team of 30,000+ colleagues with a collective spirit working in over 60 countries globally. We embody our core values: Courage, Collaboration, Customer at the Heart, Inclusion, and Passion in everything we do.

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Growth and Development

You will have the opportunity to grow across a variety of interesting jobs and careers over our extensive portfolio of global brands. We empower our colleagues to work in the smartest, most efficient ways, achieving total balance between their jobs and their lives. We offer world‑class resources for upskilling and development, satisfying your curiosity while sharing skills, knowledge, and expertise to grow together. Here, you can be yourself, and we aim to build on the attributes that make you, you.

A journey to bring out the best in you

We believe that having an understanding of the hiring process helps you to prepare, feel, and be, at your best. As a global, multi brand organisation with multiple different roles, our application process can vary. On our career site, you will find some of the key steps you can expect to guide you along the way Working with the Adecco Group

Inclusion

Adecco actively encourage veterans, military spouses, and reservists to apply.

We believe in talent, not labels. We focus on the diverse and unique skills our people bring. Our culture of belonging and purpose ensures everyone can thrive and feel engaged. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to equity, equal opportunity, inclusion, and diversity.

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Accommodations

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you require any additional accommodations or support due to a disability or other special circumstances, please let us know by contacting us. We will work with you to ensure your needs are met throughout the hiring process.

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