TUPE Project Consultant

Astrum HR; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Astrum HR is seeking an experienced TUPE Project Consultant to lead complex employee transfers and post-transfer integration across multiple organisations in a unionised environment. The role manages end-to-end TUPE processes, ensuring compliance and stakeholder engagement while maintaining operational continuity.

Based in Essex with hybrid working options, the 12-month fixed-term contract involves coordinating due diligence, data validation, and transfer readiness, reporting to senior sponsors,

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex TUPE transfers in multi-site environments.
• Delivered post-transfer integration across multiple employers.
• Experience engaging with unions and employee reps.
• Strong understanding of TUPE legislation and change implications.
• Excellent stakeholder management across HR, legal and operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and delivery of complex TUPE transfers across multiple organisations.
• Coordinate due diligence, data validation, and transfer readiness.
• Work with trade unions and HR to support consultation and relations.
• Develop integration plans for HR policies, practices and systems.
• Manage differences in terms, policies and working arrangements.
• Build relationships with senior leaders, HR, legal, and employee reps.
• Maintain project plans, risks, and escalation routes.
• Coordinate clear communications to transferring employees and stakeholders.
• Provide governance, progress reporting and milestone tracking.
• Ensure transfer activity is controlled with minimal disruption.

Skills

TUPE transfers

Stakeholder management

Project management

Legal/compliance

Negotiation

Union engagement

Job description

TUPE Project Consultant

Contract: 12-month Fixed term

Location: Essex/Hybrid

Salary: Competitive Salary plus benefits

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced TUPE Project Consultant to lead and coordinate complex employee transfer and post-transfer integration activity across multiple organisations within an unionised environment for our client. The role will be responsible for managing the end-to-end TUPE process, ensuring legal and procedural compliance, maintaining constructive employee and trade union relations, and delivering effective post-transfer integration across people, processes and policies. The successful candidate will be confident navigating complex stakeholder relationships, differing terms and conditions, legacy employment arrangements and organisational priorities, while ensuring employee engagement and operational continuity throughout the transition.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, coordination and delivery of complex TUPE transfers involving multiple transferring organisations, receiving entities and stakeholder groups.
• Coordinate due diligence, employee data validation, establishment of transferring employee populations, risk assessments and transfer readiness.
• Work closely with recognised trade unions, employee representatives, HR teams and management to support meaningful consultation, manage concerns and maintain constructive industrial relations.
• Develop and deliver integration plans covering HR policies, employment practices, systems, processes and workforce arrangements, taking account of applicable TUPE protections.
• Assess and manage differences in contractual terms, collective agreements, policies and working practices, ensuring changes are appropriately reviewed and legally compliant.
• Build effective relationships across multiple organisations, senior leadership teams, HR, legal advisers, operational managers and employee representatives.
• Maintain project plans, risk registers, decision logs, dependencies and escalation routes, proactively addressing legal, employee relations and operational risks.
• Coordinate clear, consistent and timely communications to transferring employees and affected stakeholders throughout the transfer and integration lifecycle.
• Provide robust project governance, progress reporting, milestone tracking and assurance to senior sponsors and steering groups.
• Ensure transfer activity is delivered in a controlled manner, minimising disruption to services and maintaining workforce stability.

Essential Experience

• Demonstrable experience leading complex TUPE transfers in a large, multi-site or multi-organisation environment.
• Proven delivery of post-transfer integration involving employees transferring from different employers or organisational entities.
• Ideally experience working in an unionised environment, including engagement with recognised trade unions and employee representatives.
• Strong understanding of TUPE legislation and the employment implications of organisational change.
• Experience managing differing terms and conditions, collective agreements, legacy policies and employment practices.
• Proven ability to coordinate cross-functional teams across HR, legal, operations, finance and employee relations.
• Strong project management, planning, risk management and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and problem-solving capabilities, with the confidence to operate at both strategic and operational levels.

Personal Attributes

• The ideal candidate will be a pragmatic, resilient and highly organised project leader who can bring structure to complex transfer arrangements.
• You will be comfortable operating with different Stakeholders and balancing delivery pressures with employee engagement, legal compliance and constructive trade union relationships.