Employee Relations Advisor (12 month fixed-term contract)

Informa PLC; United States; Remote; USD 54,000 - 74,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Birthday day off

Holiday season discretionary days off

Paid volunteering days

Private medical insurance

Employee assistance programme

Share Match program

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Optical and medical care

Job summary

Informa PLC is seeking an Employee Relations Advisor for a 12-month fixed-term contract. Based at Milton Park, Oxfordshire, you will work with the People Business Partners on performance management, absence management and wellbeing, driving our performance management agenda and educating managers with the tools they need to succeed.

You will lead investigations, manage grievances and conflict resolution, and advise on complex cases while ensuring compliance with UK law.

Qualifications

• Solid Employee Relations background with handling sensitive/complex cases.
• Ability to provide consistent advice to managers on employment issues.
• Knowledge of UK employment law and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance to managers on employee relations matters including performance and absence management and wellbeing.
• Lead investigations, grievances, appeals, and conflict resolution.
• Support managers to develop people management capabilities and drive performance management.
• Oversee performance plans to align with People strategy and high-performance culture.
• Manage flexible working, sabbaticals, and data integrity with payroll reporting.

Skills

CIPD qualified

Employee relations

UK employment law

Excel

SAP HR

Tools

SAP HR

Job description

We are excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for an Employee Relations Advisor to join our team on a 12-month fixed-term contract. This is an excellent chance for a motivated HR professional to join our growing organisation and work closely with our People Business Partners on a range of employee relations matters, including performance management, absence management, and employee wellbeing. You'll also play a key role in advancing our performance management agenda, helping to educate and equip managers with the tools and learning they need to succeed. Sitting within our People Relations Team and reporting to the UK People Relations Manager, this is a genuinely rewarding and challenging role. It offers the chance to gain valuable experience within a growing, global organisation, all while being part of a close-knit and supportive team. Please note that this role does not cover recruitment or learning and development. The role will be based in our office in Milton Park, Oxfordshire. What you will be doing:

• As an experienced Employee Relations Advisor you will provide a supportive and consistent level of advice and guidance to our managers regarding a range of employee relations issues including performance management, absence management and wellbeing
• Ensuring our colleagues are managed effectively and cases are facilitated in an assertive yet sensitive manner at all times
• Supporting our managers to develop their people management capabilities whilst adhering to best practice
• Overseeing the management of performance plans to support the People strategy of a high performance based culture.
• The Employee Relations Advisor leads investigations, grievances, appeals and manages conflict resolution, ensures compliance with local legislation, and partners with management to proactively address employee concerns
• Managing flexible working and sabbatical requests and providing guidance and coaching to managers as required
• Liaising with our shared service teams to ensure data integrity for payroll and employee reporting
• Review and identify trends from cases, leavers and sickness absence and make recommendations for improvement
• Drive, communicate and build commitment to T&F performance management policies and processes into the business through workshops
• Provide support in acquisitions, restructures and change programs
• Ad-hoc project work as may be required by the business. Ideally you will be CIPD qualified, or part qualified with a keen interest in your own continuous professional development.
• A solid Employee Relations background including experience handling sensitive and complex employee relations cases and the ability to provide consistent advice and guidance to managers on a variety of employment issues
• A good working knowledge of current UK employment law and its application
• Exceptional relationship management skills to partner with the business to build strong internal and external working relationships with stakeholders at all levels
• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal)
• Excellent conflict resolution skills
• Strong HRIS skills in SAP HR or similar
• Competent in Microsoft Excel to an intermediate level
• Knowledge of global mobility, benefits and acquisitions would be advantageous but is not essential.

Informa is a leading academic publishing, business intelligence, knowledge and events business, creating unique content and connectivity for customers all over the world. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 100. Taylor & Francis Group operates globally and produces high quality, peer reviewed books and journals. We produce unique, trusted content by expert authors, spreading knowledge and promoting discovery globally. We aim to broaden thinking and advance understanding, providing academics and professionals with a platform to share ideas and realize their individual potential. Our purpose is to foster human progress through knowledge. We strongly believe that this requires us to encourage and examine different ideas and voices, so that any work that meets our exacting levels of quality deserves to be included in our publications. This requires open minds, the opportunity for robust debate, and the courage to defend perspectives that stand up to scrutiny, even if they conflict with our personal beliefs or values. Because that's the only way to find the best obtainable version of the truth and, ultimately, foster human progress.

Taylor & Francis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in and value diversity of people and thought, fostering a supportive and inclusive environment where all colleagues can learn and succeed as their true selves. Taylor & Francis recruits, develops, and retains colleagues without regard to any protected personal characteristics or other non-merit-based factor. If you have a disability, or face another barrier, and would like to request an adjustment to assist your participation in the hiring process and/or in the advertised position, please contact [email protected]. Your request will be reviewed and considered in the strictest confidence. We genuinely care about our colleagues, promoting work-life balance, wellbeing, and flexible working. We believe that the skills and experience you bring to Taylor & Francis are invaluable. We want you to have the opportunity to develop your abilities, and to innovate and develop in areas which you are passionate about.

• An excellent work/life balance with a fantastic, flexible working culture
• 25 days annual leave per year plus a day off for your birthday
• 3 additional discretionary days off during the holiday season at the end of the year
• 4 paid volunteering days each year
• Company funded single cover private medical insurance
• Employee assistance programme - offering 24/7 well-being support
• Share Match - Plan that matches every share purchased with two free shares.
• Pension scheme
• Life assurance, plus optical and medical care