Senior Employee Relations Specialist

Travis Perkins; Northampton; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Pension scheme

Colleague discounts across Group

Health and wellbeing support

MyPerks discounts

Job summary

Travis Perkins Plc in Northampton is seeking a Senior Employee Relations Specialist to lead and support a regional ER team within HR Shared Service. You will build relationships with HR colleagues and managers to deliver high‑quality employee relations advice and processes.

The role entails coaching the ER team, managing high‑volume disputes, staying compliant with employment law, and planning resource needs to ensure efficient delivery. A strong ER background with 2+ years is essential.

Qualifications

• Strong ER background with multi-site experience.
• Experience handling disciplinaries, grievances and long-term sickness.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Support ER Manager with caseload and projects, deputising when needed.
• Provide impartial, commercial advice to managers and ER Specialists.
• Manage high-volume dispute resolution cases end-to-end.
• Develop and update ER policies and templates.
• Plan workload and coach the ER team.
• Deputise for Head of HR as required.

Skills

Employee relations

Case management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Employment law

Data protection

Coaching

Job description

We have a fantastic chance to work in a team that you can be proud of!

We are looking for someone who can develop, guide and support a team of people within Employee Relations!

We, at Travis Perkins Plc have an exciting opportunity as a Senior Employee Relations Specialist within our engaged HR Shared Service Employee Relations team, based in Lodge Farm - Northampton.

The Senior Employee Relations Specialist would be there to build effective relationships with HR colleagues and business managers to ensure delivery of the best professional value added ER service. Undertaking more experienced and senior responsibilities, you will be a main point of contact to develop, guide, coach the team!

This role will be working from our Northampton office 5 days a week during your induction period then will progress to a hybrid working pattern (2-3 days in the office per week)

Duties include:

• Support the Employee Relations Manager with caseload and projects, deputising when appropriate
• Support ER Specialists with advice and guidance to ensure consistent, impartial, commercial advice is given
• Effective and efficient end-to-end management of high volume dispute resolution case load (disciplinaries, appeals, grievances). In exceptional circumstances attend hearings for complex cases and provide face-to-face advice to management.
• Contribute to legislative updates and the continuous improvement of Employee Relations policies, guidelines and template letters.
• Plan resource needs and manage workload distribution, allocation of tasks and monitor service levels so that the team delivers an efficient & effective service
• Coach and support the development of the ER team
• Support the Head of HR and ER Manager with workload and ad-hoc requests. Deputise for the Manager, when required with daily team management, for example; team organisation (e.g. lunches, shifts etc), recruitment, workload distribution, allocation of tasks and monitoring service levels.

Is this you?

• A strong ER background with more than two years experience in a similar role within a large multi site and similar size organisation.
• Experience with case managing difficult and complex grievance, appeal and long term sickness cases.
• Excellent communication skills and can work under pressure.
• Works collaboratively within the team and wider HR team.
• Resilient and overcomes obstacles.
• Up to date knowledge of employment legislation.
• Good understanding of data protection principles.

What can we offer you?

You’ll be supported by some of the best training & development in the industry. Our impressive internal succession programme means, whatever it is you do with us, it will be easy for you to learn, grow and develop across the Travis Perkins Group. We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:

• Competitive annual salary
• Business performance related bonus
• Save-as-you-earn scheme
• Buy-as-you-earn scheme
• Contributory pension scheme
• Colleague discounts across a variety of Group businesses including with special discounts across our Trade Merchanting businesses, 20% off at Toolstation.
• Support on various areas such as health and wellbeing
• MyPerks discounts across shop retailers and restaurants

A bit about us

As the largest distributor of building materials in the UK, Travis Perkins has been helping to build Britain for over 200 years.

With over 5 businesses, 19,000 colleagues and more than 1,200 branches, stores and sites around the UK we believe we have the best people and the best place to work. Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, have some fun along the way!

We’re driving to become a truly inclusive employer. We want everyone to be at their best and it’s our ambition that everyone within our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves.

You be you, it makes us, us!