Employee Relations Partner

• Handling complex investigations, performance, grievances, disciplinaries and appeals which includes advising on best practice and supporting colleagues through these processes.
• Partnering on large-scale change programmes, and being a point of contact for topics such as organisational restructures.
• Identifying opportunities to continuously improve our processes and policies.
• Working in collaboration with wider P&C teams and our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion team on initiatives to enhance employee workplace experience.
• Crafting and delivering people practices which develop and maintain positive working relationships.
• Helping ensure our employee handbook, policies and code of conduct are up to date, legally compliant and reflect our culture and ways of working.
• Identifying and implementing appropriate reporting mechanisms for employee relations cases, both informal and formal.
• Partnering closely with Learning and People Partners to ensure managers are equipped to support with people challenges in a fair and effective way, and to enable you to build strong relationships across the organisation.
• Supporting our managers and People Partners to address ER issues in the UK, France, Canada & the US.

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• You are driven by fairness, high quality delivery and standards, and care deeply about people.
• When handling people issues, you efficiently navigate legal, cultural and business risks and tensions.
• You look beyond the core investigation to identify opportunities to improve our working environment for employees.
• You are capable in conflict management and problem solving.
• You have varied experience across the breadth of ER topics including disciplinary, grievance, appeals, sickness, performance and restructuring.
• You enjoy learning about and working within non-UK legal jurisdictions.
• You have change management experience.
• You hold a solid understanding of organisational culture. Different work environments pose different challenges for people, so too does the ever-changing nature of our organisation as we grow, scale, and evolve.
• You proactively ensure your Employment Law expertise is up-to-date.
• Taking the learning opportunities after each case you support, you possess a continuous improvement approach.

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