Employee Relations Business Partner

Location: London/Dublin Office
Length: Start ASAP – End Date 31/12/2025
Rate: From £43.75 p/h (Inside IR35)
Hours: 9am-6pm (onsite Mon, Tues,Thurs)

Role Overview:
Our Client is seeking an Employee Relations Business Partner for the EMEA region. The ideal candidate will contribute with both the hands-on and strategic support of our people managers through performance management and workplace conflict issues to cultivate an innovative, high-performing, and inclusive culture. The ideal candidate will have a strong assessment of different types of risk and bring creative and effective ideas and solutions to growing organizations.

Responsibilities:

• Provide Employee Relations support, thought partnership, and coaching for all employees and levels of management in the organization
• Coach managers to proactively performance manage their teams, including guiding through informal and formal processes
• Manage employee misconduct and grievance matters in a timely and proactive manner
• Proactively assess team and manager development needs, make recommendations, and implement appropriate solutions
• Provide rigorous data analysis and reporting solutions based on business needs, highlighting key trends in employee relations to actively drive proactive solutions to minimize reactive work
• Integrate and partner with HR colleagues in the HR Business Partner, Legal, Investigations, Learning & Development, and HR Programs teams to implement solutions and help scale the business
• Partner closely with regional HR partners on global strategy and execution

Typical day-to-day activities:

• Signpost CWAMs for documentation – lean in for coaching on high-risk issues and complains
• leasing with key partners - BOLT - matters that meet thresholds of escalation
• Disciplinary
• Grievances
• Taking calls contributing to global workstreams
• Wellness response team – serious care issues
• Team meetings throughout the day
• Need to be able to work with ambiguity
• Training onboarding process and ramp up for the CW and team will bring CW up to speed, and a lot of documentation to help support

Essential Minimum Qualifications:

• Demonstrates project management, change management, and experience driving programs independently
• Experience helping global and/or matrixed organizations scale
• Experience learning and thriving in a constantly changing environment and cultivate relationships across teams
• Experience using data to identify insights that drive action
• Effective communication and problem-solving skills
• 6+ years’ experience in Employee Relations, HR Business Partner, or equivalent role
• Demonstrates empathy and experience driving inclusion work
• Demonstrates solid judgment and experience assisting risk relative to the business
• BA/BS degree preferred