Employee Relations Specialist

Our client is seeing a proactive and engaging HR Business Partner, ideally someone with extensive ER and recruitment experience looking to advance their career. The ideal candidate will be passionate, forward-thinking, and possess a continuous improvement mindset, ready to drive HR initiatives.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Develop strong commercial relationships with business leaders to effectively manage and resolve complex employee relations issues.
• Provide performance management guidance and support to management, including guidance on restructures, workforce planning, and succession planning.
• Identify and address training needs within the sales and commercial teams, ensuring all training adds value.
• Support recruitment efforts by proactively sourcing candidates, reducing time to hire, and ensuring a seamless and engaging induction process.
• Drive People initiatives such as Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, sustainability, wellbeing, and development through strong relationships with business leaders.
• Conduct exit and stay interviews to gather data and insights on retention trends.
• Support line management in maintaining a supportive culture that puts ‘people first’.
• Assist with HR projects and administration as needed.

The ideal candidate:

• CIPD qualification, preferably level 5 or above.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage at all levels of the business.
• Strong skills in relationship building, influencing, and negotiating.
• Up-to-date knowledge of HR processes, employment law fundamentals, and recent developments.
• 3+ years experience in overseeing high level ER; disciplinaries, grievance, performance management, and appeal procedures
• 3+ years experience in dealing with challenging individuals and situations
• 3+ years experience in end-to-end recruitment 
• Patient, calm, firm but fair, and a natural influencer who is down to earth, open, energetic, and enthusiastic.

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday a year with the option to flex up to 5 additional days.
• Private Health Insurance and optional healthcare cash plan.
• Group life assurance.
• Regular appraisals and a tailored development plan.
• Continuous online and instructor-led training & development.
• Wellbeing support including App and Hub.
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave.

If you are looking for the next step in your HR career and want to work in a progressive company within a lovely team, then this is the role for you!!!!

Do not hesitate and apply today by submitting your CV or emailing