UK Interim People Relations Partner

Interim UK People Relations Partner

Your new company
People are at the centre of everything we do, and the reason we do what we do as a company. To be able to make more impact and thus a meaningful difference, we created a new People & Culture (HR) setup in our company. We believe that working as a networked organisation will make sure we add the most value. Therefore, we are working across countries in our global people ecosystems with a common mindset and our shared values. As good as this sounds, we need support to make this work, also on a local level. Therefore, we are looking for a UK People Relations Partner to work closely with our local colleagues, work council and leadership to achieve the best collaborations possible.
This 12-month interim position is based in Welwyn Garden City. This role will cover the UK and Ireland but may be required to support additional countries from the North and Eastern Europe Network from time to time.
Your new role

• Consults and provides advice, counsel and resolution to employees and managers on a broad range of people relations matters, including policy interpretation and application, conflict resolution, complex performance management and termination processes and practices, grievances and disciplinaries.
• Ensures full ownership of incoming requests, prioritisation and solution implementation to provide PR consultation to P&C partners, leaders and individual contributors with a connected and caring approach
• Works in partnership with Compliance to determine if any support is required for BEIR complaint resolution and as a point of escalation for any other complex complaints, including but not limited to those involving hostile work environment, retaliation, and other potential violations of company policy and labour/employment law and serve as a point of handoff/escalation from internal partners (such as Business Partners, business leaders, IWS partners, Legal, Data Privacy, SHE etc)
• Surfaces root causes and broader trends through the use of data in order to ensure business leaders are best positioned to address any pervasive concerns and advise on how to prevent complaints through fair and consistent performance management.
• Provides thought leadership to business leaders on restructuring and reorganisation and engaging internal and external partners and stakeholders to drive initiatives to conclusion
• Advises on performance management issues that are complex, contentious and are determined to carry potential levels of legal risk
• Consults and supports reorganisation/transformations and strategic workforce planning exercises
• Manages projects related to the PR's key areas of responsibility (e.g. restructurings, negotiations with employee representations, conflict prevention) resulting from global/regional/local business needs
• Participates in cross-organisational reviews of broad-based P&C programs
• Manage the relationship with the local unions by proactively identifying issues requiring information, advice or consent.

What you'll need to succeed

• Demonstrates the ability to leverage technology and data to generate insights as a foundation for diagnosis, recommendations and decisions
• Demonstrates passion for building a diverse and inclusive work culture, fostering psychological safety and a strong sense of belonging
• Demonstrated enterprise mindset and system thinking, proven ability to work effectively across multiple business areas, global teams and key leadership areas
• Demonstrated consultation and influencing skills with a diverse group of stakeholders across the business
• Deep domain experience in the areas of employee relations and/or labour relations, a good understanding of performance management on a global scale (preferred), expert negotiation skills that diffuse volatile situations and result in course correction of people relationships.
• Solid knowledge and experience in local labour law across the North and Eastern Europe Network, as well as the Middle East and Africa
• Ideally, French language capabilities

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.
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