Employee Relations Projects Manager

Summary of Role Purpose

The ER Projects Manager is an agile role working across the Employee Relations ("ER") and wider People teams. The role leads the coordination and delivery of key ER projects across KPMG, ensuring consistent planning, governance, and outcomes. Projects may include the introduction of new ways of working, policy change, as well as high profile firmwide change programmes.

The role provides oversight and subject matter direction to ensure effective project execution and risk mitigation. Working with senior business leaders, the HR Projects Team, Employment Law Advisory Team (ELAT), HRBPs, and other stakeholders, this role sets priorities, drives delivery, maintains clear reporting and communication, and ensures appropriate documentation and controls.

What will you be doing?

• Drive the ER projects portfolio forwards, providing strategic direction, prioritisation, and project leadership aligned to ER and People priorities.
• Be pivotal to the planning, execution, and closure of ER projects and programmes (including TUPE and redundancy programmes), creating and maintaining detailed project plans and ensuring quality, pace, and legal compliance.
• Partner with senior leaders and stakeholders across the business and People function, facilitating clear decision making, communication and collaboration throughout the project lifecycle.
• Identify, assess, and proactively manage risks related to ER initiatives, agreeing mitigation plans and escalating where appropriate.
• Support leaders and impacted colleagues through transitions, ensuring appropriate consultation and communications.
• Ensure project activities adhere to employment laws, regulations and internal policies, and that governance requirements are designed, met and evidenced for all policy/process changes.
• Set reporting standards, monitor progress, prepare updates for ER and HR leadership/ELAT as required, and use data to improve delivery and outcomes.
• Provide clear guidance, direction and coaching to colleagues supporting ER projects, ensuring delivery meets agreed requirements and building capability.
• Provide ad hoc support to the Head of ER/ER leadership team, including on speak up and formal investigation workstreams.

What will you need to do it?

• Significant experience leading complex projects/programmes within HR or ER domains, including end to end delivery and governance.
• Strong Employee Relations knowledge and experience including TUPE and redundancy, with confidence advising and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of UK employment legislation, dispute resolution, and best practice ER approaches, with proven ability to apply this knowledge to programme design and delivery.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to engage and influence at all organisational levels, and to lead and coach others through change.
• People leadership experience (formal or matrix), including coaching, performance management, and building capability across a delivery team.

Locations

• Birmingham
• Leeds
• Manchester
• Watford

Equal Opportunities

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