Senior Employee Relations Consultant

Frazer Jones is delighted to be partnering with a highly established, forward thinking, and successful organisation in Coventry to help them recruit a Senior Employee Relations Consultant.

This is a newly created position where you will provide expert advice and guidance to the People Team. This role will be instrumental in shaping and delivering ER frameworks, policies and case management processes ensuring they align with employment law, organisational objectives and best practice. You will also play a pivotal role in supporting trade union relations and strategic initiatives.

This is a highly autonomous role where you will collaborate with inspirational leadership as well as the wider Business, giving you exposure and future opportunity for growth and development.

The role:

As a key member of the ER function, you will:

1. Act as a trusted advisor to the People Team, offering expert guidance on complex ER matters, challenging their thought process, identifying risk, and providing appropriate solutions.
2. Lead on trade union engagement, ensuring smooth negotiations and consultations.
3. Develop and implement ER policies and frameworks, ensuring alignment with employment law and best practice.
4. Provide coaching and training to the People team on all ER issues.
5. Drive strategic ER initiatives, including change management, dispute resolution and culture transformation.
6. Monitor employment law changes ensuring proactive compliance and risk management.
7. Develop risk-mitigation strategies, helping the business navigate ER challenges effectively.

What you will need:

1. Proven experience within a senior ER role within a large complex organisation.
2. Extensive experience in trade union engagement, including negotiations and dispute resolution.
3. Experience of preparing for and attending employment tribunals.
4. In-depth knowledge of UK employment law and ER best practice.
5. Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at all levels including senior leaders.
6. Expertise in coaching and mentoring HR professionals on all ER matters.
7. A proactive, solutions focused approach to ER challenges.

This is a great opportunity for a proven Employee Relations professional to work in an organisation where you can shape and influence the ER strategy whilst providing consultative advice and guidance to the People Team.

The role offers huge potential for growth and development and it’s an exciting time to join, with such important changes on the horizon relating to the Employment Rights Bill. This role has significant exposure across the wider business giving you the opportunity to elevate and demonstrate your expertise.

Please note you must have extensive experience of working with Unions to be considered for this role.

If you are looking for your next ER position and want to work for a changing, forward-thinking and commercially minded organisation please get in touch with me now.

The SR Group (UK) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.