Senior Employee Relations Partner

Bauer Media Group Heinrich Bauer Verlag KG; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday

Bauer Academy

Enhanced parental leave

Flexible working

Volunteer days

Job summary

Bauer Media Group Heinrich Bauer Verlag KG is seeking a People Relations Partner to provide specialist employee relations expertise across the UK Publishing People Team. You will handle routine to high-risk cases, guide managers, and support organisational change with sound employment law knowledge.

You will work with managers, leaders and People BPs to ensure fair, compliant outcomes, while coaching on performance, wellbeing and attendance.

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing complex employee relations matters.
• Experience supporting organisational change and consultation activity.
• Strong knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice.
• Strong investigation and employee relations capability.
• Excellent coaching, communication and influencing skills.
• Sound judgement, problem-solving and risk assessment capability.
• Confidence managing sensitive and complex situations effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage routine, complex and high-risk employee relations matters.
• Conduct and oversee investigations relating to conduct, grievance, whistleblowing and workplace concerns.
• Provide expert advice across disciplinary, grievance, capability, absence management and performance processes.
• Assess employee relations risk and provide clear, practical recommendations to managers and leaders.
• Support restructures, consultation processes, redundancy, redeployment and wider organisational change activity.
• Work alongside People Business Partners to help implement change successfully.
• Coach managers on performance, attendance, conduct and wellbeing conversations, helping build confidence and capability.
• Deliver training, workshops and practical learning sessions on employee relations topics.
• Use employee relations data and trends to identify opportunities to improve manager capability and employee experience.
• Contribute to policy development, process improvement and wider People Team priorities.

Skills

Employee relations

Change management

Investigation skills

Coaching & communication

Risk assessment

Job description

Bauer Media Group Heinrich Bauer Verlag KG is seeking a People Relations Partner to provide specialist employee relations expertise across the UK Publishing People Team. You will handle routine to high-risk cases, guide managers, and support organisational change with sound employment law knowledge.

You will work with managers, leaders and People BPs to ensure fair, compliant outcomes, while coaching on performance, wellbeing and attendance.