Senior Employee Relations Consultant - 14 mth FTC

Experian Group; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working - 40% office based

Great compensation package and discretionary bonus

Pension and Bupa healthcare

25 days annual leave with additional options

Job summary

Experian Group is looking for a Senior Employee Relations Consultant to join its UKI HR team on a 14-month fixed term contract in Nottingham. This role will involve providing advice on employee relations, change management, and compliance, partnering with various business units to effectively manage HR processes.

The successful candidate will have proven experience in employee relations, a strong grasp of employment law, and exceptional communication skills. Benefits include a hybrid working model and various perks, including health care and annual leave.

Qualifications

• Proven employee relations experience advising on employment regulations.
• Experience in supporting organisation restructuring.
• Strong understanding of change management.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business areas to ensure ER support for People Plans.
• Manage escalated ER cases across the UK&I business.
• Coach managers on all ER aspects.
• Collaborate with HRBPs in delivering business change.

Skills

Employee relations experience

Understanding of employment law

Exceptional communication skills

Coaching and mentoring line managers

Job description

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Senior Employee Relations Consultant to join our UKI HR team on a 14 month fixed term basis in our Nottingham office.

As a Senior ER Consultant, you will partner with defined business areas and provide employment, change management and policy advice and support to ensure that the people, employment and legal risks are managed effectively.

You will partner with the HRBPs and business managers to manage employment implications of business line structural change, redundancy and TUPE projects as required, whilst also managing business-wide and cross-business projects and provide Employee Relationship leadership.

You will lead on defined functional areas of expertise, ensuring compliance is achieved and take into account manager and employee experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with defined business areas to ensure ER support for delivery of People Plans including SWP.
• Manage complex and escalated ER cases of all case types across the UK&I business with minimal supervision
• Coach and advise managers up to Executive level on all ER aspects.
• Identify manager capability needs and work through ER Consultant to develop and deliver appropriate interventions enable managers to manage their people effectively and to comply with core HR processes - training/information availability
• Collaborate with HRBPs and wider HR Team in delivering business change – including redundancies, restructures, & TUPEs. Provide advice on legal requirements, and recommend approaches to ensure successful delivery of change whilst effectively managing employment risk.
• Lead relationship with Experian People Forum ensuring compliance with collective consultation regulations and engagement of the People Forum as a collective, supportive body for change.
• Drive continuous process improvement and identify opportunities for automation
• Liaise with ACAS on early conciliation for own and ER Consultant cases.
• Coach ER Consultant(s) to build their individual case management expertise across all types of ER cases so that they can effectively support managers and manage own cases in accordance with Company policies and procedures, and ensure legal compliance.
• Develop and review ER owned policy as required
• Manage the DSAR process to ensure compliance and resource management to deliver against regulatory timeframes

Experience and Skills

• Proven employee relations experience with experience advising on employment regulations and HR processes and services, and supporting the delivery of employment changes.
• Experience supporting organisation restructuring
• Strong understanding of employment law and regulations and change management
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to partner with different stakeholders and influence senior leaders.
• Experience developing line manager skills through coaching, training and mentoring

Benefits

• Hybrid working - 40% office based
• Great compensation package and discretionary bonus
• Core benefits include pension, Bupa healthcare, Sharesave scheme and more
• 25 days annual leave with 8 bank holidays and 3 volunteering days. You can purchase additional annual leave.

Internal Grade D/EB8

Experian is also proud to be an Equal Opportunity and affirmative action employer. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know at the earliest opportunity.