Strategic Employee Relations Transformation Lead (UK)

FNZ; Ipswich; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career Progression

Excellent Benefits

Job summary

FNZ is seeking an Employee Relations Transformation Lead to join our People & Culture team on a 12-month fixed-term contract in the United Kingdom. You will lead the Employment Rights Reform Programme, translating evolving UK employment law into practical policies, governance, and operating models.

Working with Legal, Employee Relations, Payroll and senior leaders, you will shape policy, drive cross-functional change, and ensure compliance, readiness, and risk mitigation across FNZ's UK

Qualifications

• Significant Employee Relations experience within a complex organisation.
• Extensive knowledge of UK employment law and legislative change implementation.
• Proven experience leading employment law, HR transformation, regulatory change or people transformation initiatives.
• Strong experience translating legal requirements into practical business policies, frameworks and operating models.
• Experience operating within highly regulated, governance-focused environments.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive organisational change.
• Experience partnering with Legal, Compliance, HR Systems, Payroll and operational teams.
• Strong programme management and delivery skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement and influencing capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery activities associated with FNZ's UK Employment Rights Reform Programme.
• Translate complex legislative requirements into practical and sustainable business solutions.
• Drive implementation of employment law reforms across multiple people and operational workstreams.
• Partner with Legal, Employee Relations and senior stakeholders to assess legislative developments and implementation requirements.
• Manage programme activities, milestones, risks, dependencies and governance requirements.
• Support executive reporting, compliance monitoring and audit readiness activities.
• Lead the review and redesign of employment policies, procedures and employee relations frameworks.
• Develop practical operating models that support legislative compliance while enabling business effectiveness.
• Produce governance documentation, manager guidance, toolkits and implementation frameworks.
• Ensure all documentation is legally robust, scalable and aligned to organisational requirements.
• Establish sustainable approaches for future legislative change implementation.
• Support workforce change readiness and consultation planning activities.
• Lead implementation planning associated with changes to redundancy, dismissal, consultation and workforce management requirements.
• Partner with business leaders to ensure consistent and compliant approaches to employee relations matters.
• Support organisational readiness for new employment rights obligations and regulatory expectations.
• Design and implement governance frameworks and compliance controls.
• Establish audit-ready evidence and documentation supporting legislative compliance.
• Lead risk identification, mitigation planning and issue management activities.
• Support regulatory readiness and operational risk management initiatives.
• Provide regular updates to governance forums and senior stakeholders.
• Develop and deliver manager capability programmes relating to legislative change.
• Create practical learning materials, decision-support tools and guidance resources.
• Support People Team upskilling activities across multiple disciplines.
• Lead communication and change adoption initiatives across the UK workforce.
• Drive the embedding of new policies, frameworks and ways of working.
• Act as a trusted subject matter expert for complex employee relations and employment law matters.
• Provide strategic guidance on emerging risks and legislative developments.
• Drive continuous improvement across ER frameworks, policies and governance processes.
• Influence senior stakeholders to support successful implementation and sustained compliance.

Skills

Employee relations

UK employment law

Programme leadership

Stakeholder management

Regulatory change

Change management

Job description

FNZ is seeking an Employee Relations Transformation Lead to join our People & Culture team on a 12-month fixed-term contract in the United Kingdom. You will lead the Employment Rights Reform Programme, translating evolving UK employment law into practical policies, governance, and operating models.

Working with Legal, Employee Relations, Payroll and senior leaders, you will shape policy, drive cross-functional change, and ensure compliance, readiness, and risk mitigation across FNZ's UK