An exciting opportunity has arisen for a VP – Employee Relations to join the Employee Relations team, based in Derby.
As VP – Employee Relations, you will work with senior leaders, people leaders and Employee Representatives to develop and drive a strategic partnership to execute business strategy. This will be achieved via relationship management, a structured approach to project planning, a consultative approach to engagement and an engaging communication style that will enable you to deliver the right tone/message to the appropriate groups and individuals.
What you will be doing
With this attractive opportunity, you will get a chance to:
1. Develop and maintain a strategic partnership with our Trade Union and employee representatives, fostering constructive dialogue and collaboration to align workforce needs with organisational goals.
2. Provide business-focused, pragmatic workplace practice solutions to improve productivity, lead the programme of activity on standardisation and create the right environment for a diverse and inclusive workplace.
3. Maintain awareness of employee relations/industrial relations good practice, benchmark the best in the region and align the Company’s approach and solutions to match and exceed that standard.
4. Provide specialist advice on complex change activities requiring collective engagement and liaise with relevant legal representatives to ensure that risk is minimized.
5. Advise and support any statutory consultation relationships which enable good employee relations and/or legal compliance.
6. Work closely with Senior leaders across the UK to forecast and address requirements, upcoming issues within respective client group(s).
7. Lead collective negotiations, consultations and dispute resolution activities as appropriate.
8. Act as a specialist centre of employee relations excellence for all the businesses in the UK.
Who we’re looking for
* Strong relationship and influencing skills with credibility across the function, within the organisation and externally with relevant bodies.
* Ability to provide support on multiple change activities and to understand the impact of ER on the wider HR and business change agenda.
* Strong experience of operating on the front line of trade union relations, with a track record of negotiations and successfully leading change within a unionised environment.
* Pragmatic approach that always keeps the organisation's best interests at the forefront of the decision-making process.
* An up-to-date understanding of all elements of UK employee relations.
* A proven ability in successfully holding difficult conversations and delivering sensitive messages to employees at all levels.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving.
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